Cleansed Forum Mint

Old English clǣnsian, to make clean — past-participle of cleanse. As a color modifier, cleansed implies a clear-and-purified quality where the hue has been stripped of any contaminating tint. Sits at the crisp-and-clear end of the grid, parallel to fresh and pristine in usage.

Latin forum, open-space-of-Roman-city. As a color modifier, forum implies a Roman-and-civic-meeting-square quality, the visual register of Roman-Forum-and-Pompeii-Forum hand-built civic-meeting-square forum-and-basilica-and-rostrum Republican-and-Imperial-Roman architectural surfaces under Roman-Forum-and-Pompeii civic-meeting-square light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to agora and stoa 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.