Settled Eave Mint

The past participle of settle, to come to rest — used as a color modifier since the seventeenth century for hues that read as stabilized after a process. Settled green, settled brown: moderate saturation combined with optical permanence. Sits at the crisp-bucket alongside steady and composed.

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.