Trim Gable Mint

Old English trymman, to make firm — sharing root with firm. As a color modifier, trim implies a clear-and-neatly-arranged quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-edited surface-detail. Sits at the crisp-and-neat end of the grid, parallel to neat and tidy in usage.

Old French gable, triangular-end-of-pitched-roof. As a color modifier, gable implies a triangular-end-of-pitched-roof quality, the visual register of English-and-Tudor-and-Pennsylvania-Dutch-gable hand-built triangular-pitched-roof gable-and-dormer architectural surfaces under English-and-Tudor-and-Dutch gable-end light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to eave and truss 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.