Drawn Via Mint

Old English dragan, to draw — past-participle of draw. As a color modifier, drawn implies a clear-and-line-and-mark quality, the crisp color of Old-Master-and-Modernist hand-drawn studio-and-life-class observational-drawing graphite-and-charcoal lines. Sits at the crisp-and-incised end of the grid, parallel to etched and drafted in usage.

Latin via, road-or-way. As a color modifier, via implies a Latin-road-and-Roman-Via-Appia quality, the visual register of Roman-Via-Appia-and-Via-Aemilia hand-Latin-road-and-Roman-Via-Appia Roman-Via-Appia-and-Via-Aemilia-and-Via-Egnatia via-and-Latin-road surfaces under Roman-Via-Appia-and-Via-Aemilia-and-Via-Egnatia Republican-Rome-and-imperial-road-network basalt-paved-Roman-road-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to arbor and domus in usage.

The genus Mentha — peppermint, spearmint, apple mint, water mint — the cooling herb whose menthol gives it that quality at the molecular level. The color refers to fresh peppermint leaves before drying: a clean, slightly cool green with the matte finish of trichome-rich leaf surface. Lighter than basil, cooler than parsley, with the mojito-and-Pimm's association of a herb tied to summer drinks across two continents.