Trim Drear 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 English drēor, gore-and-sorrow. As a color modifier, drear implies a bleak-and-cheerless-and-sorrowful quality, the visual register of Brontë-moorland-and-Hardy-heath-drear hand-bleak-and-cheerless-and-sorrowful Brontë-moorland-and-Hardy-heath-and-Wuthering drear-and-bleak-and-cheerless-and-sorrowful surfaces under Brontë-moorland-and-Hardy-heath-and-Wuthering rain-swept-and-low-cloud-and-empty-vista Yorkshire-and-Wessex-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to bleak and gloom 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.