Clean Swoop Mint

Old English clǣne, pure, free of dirt — used as a color modifier since the medieval period for hues that read as crisp and uncontaminated by other pigments. Clean white, clean blue: moderate saturation combined with optical clarity. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside clear and true.

Old English swāpan, to-sweep-down. As a color modifier, swoop implies a fast-descending-and-arcing-down quality, the visual register of peregrine-falcon-and-stooping-hawk-swoop hand-fast-descending-and-arcing-down peregrine-falcon-and-stooping-hawk-and-eagle swooped-and-fast-descending-and-arcing-down surfaces under peregrine-falcon-and-stooping-hawk-and-eagle cliff-face-and-moorland-and-open-sky raptor-stoop-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to flit and glide 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.