Pressed Eave Mint

Latin pressāre, to press — past-participle of press. As a color modifier, pressed implies a clear-and-smoothed-and-flattened quality, the crisp color of Mid-Century-Modern freshly-pressed-shirt-and-trouser ironed-textile finish. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to ironed and starched in usage.

Old English efes, roof-edge. As a color modifier, eave implies a roof-overhang-and-edge quality, the visual register of Japanese-engawa-and-English-eave hand-built roof-overhang-and-edge eave-and-fascia-and-soffit architectural surfaces under Japanese-and-English eave-edge filtered light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to gable and frieze 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.