Garish Park Mint

Middle English garen, to stare — adjectival suffix -ish. As a color modifier, garish implies a saturated-and-eye-stunning-and-overdone quality, the bright color of Las-Vegas-and-Coney-Island over-the-top neon-marquee display. Sits at the bright-and-flamboyant end of the grid, parallel to gaudy and lurid in usage.

Old French parc, enclosed-game-preserve. As a color modifier, park implies a landscaped-and-managed-greenspace quality, the visual register of Stowe-and-Versailles hand-landscaped-and-managed enclosed deer-park-and-pleasure-garden surfaces under designed-landscape Stowe-and-Versailles formal-pleasure-garden light. Sits at the modifier-and-place end of the grid, parallel to garden and court 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.