Printed Night Mint

Latin premere, to press — past-participle of print. As a color modifier, printed implies a clear-and-impressed-and-multiplied quality, the crisp color of Marimekko-and-Liberty-of-London hand-or-machine-printed textile-and-paper pattern-design. Sits at the crisp-and-printed end of the grid, parallel to stamped and etched in usage.

Old English niht, darkness-and-sleep. As a color modifier, night implies a moonlit-or-star-lit-dark quality, the visual register of clear-sky moonlit-and-star-lit atmospheric Rayleigh-scattered low-light surfaces against deep blue-black night-sky horizon. Sits at the modifier-and-time end of the grid, parallel to eve and yore 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.