Lavender (color)

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This article is about the color. For other uses, see Lavender (disambiguation).

Lavender (floral) (#B57EDC)
#B57EDC

Lavender (web) (#E6E6FA)
#E6E6FA

Lavender (web color)
 
X11,[1] HSV[2]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVery pale blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Lavender is a light shade of

website designers.[3] The color lavender might be described as a medium purple, a pale bluish purple,[4] or a light pinkish-purple. The term lavender may be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, or grayish-purples, but only on the blue side; lilac is pale purple on the pink side. In paints, the color lavender is made by mixing purple and white
paint.

Historical development of the concept of the color

The first recorded use of the word lavender as a color term in

English was in 1705.[5]

Originally, the name lavender only applied to flowers. By 1930, the book A Dictionary of Color[6] identified three major shades of lavender—[floral] lavender, lavender gray, and lavender blue, and in addition a fourth shade of lavender called old lavender (a darker lavender gray) (all four of these shades of lavender are shown below). By 1955, the publication of the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (a color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps), now on the Internet,[7] listed dozens of different shades of lavender. Today, although the color floral lavender (the color of the flower of the lavender plant) remains the standard for lavender, just as there are many shades of pink (light red, light rose, and light magenta colors), there are many shades of lavender (some light magenta, some light purple, [mostly] light violet [as well as some grayish-violet], and some light indigo colors).

Variations

Lavender blush

Lavender blush
 
X11
ISCC–NBS descriptorPinkish-white
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color lavender blush. It is a pale pinkish tone of lavender.

Lavender mist (web color lavender)

Lavender mist
 
X11
ISCC–NBS descriptorVery pale blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color designated as the web color lavender is a very pale

tint of lavender that in other (artistic) contexts may be described as lavender mist.[citation needed
]

Languid lavender

Languid lavender
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(83, 15, 293°)
SourcePlochere
ISCC–NBS descriptorVery pale purple
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color languid lavender. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by

interior designers.[8]

Lavender gray

Lavender gray
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(79, 10, 269°)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight bluish-gray
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The historical name for this color is lavender gray. It is listed in A Dictionary of Color as one of the three major variations of lavender in 1930 along with lavender blue (shown below) and [floral] lavender (also shown below).[9] (This book also designates a fourth shade of lavender, called old lavender, also shown below). This color is similar to Prismacolor colored pencil PC 1026, Greyed Lavender.

Soap

Soap
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(82, 31, 272°)
SourceCrayola
ISCC–NBS descriptorVery pale violet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color soap is displayed at right. Soap is a color formulated by Crayola in 1994 as one of the colors in its Magic Scent specialty box of colors.

Soap bars with lavender from Provence
Soap bars with lavender from Provence.

This color is a representation of soap scented with

lavender
, one of the most popular scents for soap.

Pale lavender

Pale Lavender
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(86, 37, 276°)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorVery light violet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the pale tint of lavender shown as lavender in sample 209 in the

ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names.[10]

Lavender blue

Main article: Periwinkle (color)
A periwinkle flower.
Periwinkle
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(84, 42, 266°)
SourceMaerz and Paul[11]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVery light purplish-blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Lavender blue was listed in A Dictionary of Color as one of the three major variations of lavender in 1930 along with lavender gray (shown above) and [floral] lavender (shown below). It is identified as being the same color as periwinkle. The first use of the term lavender blue as a color term was in 1926.[12]

Light lavender (wisteria)

Wisteria
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(71, 47, 293°)
SourceCrayola
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight purple
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Chinese wisteria.

The color wisteria is displayed at right. Wisteria, a light medium violet color is equivalent to light lavender.

The Prismacolor colored pencil PC 956, which used to be called light violet and is now called lilac (the actual color of the colored pencil is equivalent to wisteria rather than lilac) is this color.

Wisteria close-up
Wisteria close-up.

Wisteria in this exact shade is one of the Crayola crayon colors on the list of Crayola crayon colors. It was formulated as a Crayola color in 1993. The first recorded use of wisteria as a color name in English was in 1892.[13]

Pink lavender

Pink lavender
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(77, 29, 319°)
SourcePantone TPX[14]
ISCC–NBS descriptorGrayish purplish pink
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color pink lavender is displayed at right.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #14-3207 TPX—Pink Lavender.[15]

Lavender pink

Lavender pink
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(79, 48, 340°)
SourceCrayola
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight purplish-pink
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

After the introduction of the Munsell color system, in which purple, described as equivalent to red-violet, is described as one of the five psychological primary colors along with red, yellow, green, and blue, some people began to think of lavender as being somewhat more pinkish color.[citation needed]

Lavender pink roses
Lavender pink roses.

This color can be described as lavender pink or pale pinkish-purple when purple is defined as equivalent to red-violet as artists do.[citation needed]

This tone of lavender, displayed at right, is the color designated as lavender (color #74) in the list of Crayola crayon colors. This version of "lavender" is a lot pinker than the other shades of lavender shown here.

Lavender rose

Lavender rose
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(77, 62, 322°)
SourceInternet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Lavender rose[16] is a light shade of magenta.[17] Before 1958, the color shown below as medium lavender gray and now called purple mountain majesty by Crayola was called lavender in Crayola crayons. This color can be seen as between the colors rose and lavender.

Lavender magenta

Lavender magenta
 
X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Some perceive lavender as being a light violet color somewhere between the web colors

wisteria. This color is reproduced at right: it is equivalent to the web color mistakenly called "Violet" which is actually a light violet, i.e., a lavender of medium saturation (see the colors displayed in the article on violet for a comparison of the so-called web color "violet" with the actual color violet, which is color #8B00FF: actual color violet). Although the web color "violet" may be called light violet it is technically actually a light magenta, since the red and blue values of the color are equal (which signifies for computer display that this color is a shade of magenta), and therefore another name for this color is lavender magenta,[18][19][20]
analogous to the colors lavender gray, lavender indigo, lavender blue, lavender rose, and lavender pink.

Medium lavender magenta (web color plum)

Plum (web color)
 
HTML/CSS[21]
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight reddish-purple
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Main article: Plum (color)

At right is displayed the color medium lavender magenta which is equivalent to the

web color
version of plum (pale plum).

Plum fruits
Plum fruits.

This color may be regarded both as a tone of lavender since it is a light color between rose and blue and as a light medium tone of magenta because its red and blue values are equal (the color signature of a tone of magenta for computer display).

Heliotrope

Main article: Heliotrope (color)
Heliotrope
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(66, 102, 295°)
SourceMaerz and Paul[22]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid purple
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Garden heliotrope
Garden heliotrope.

The color heliotrope is shown at right. Another name for this color is psychedelic lavender because this color was a popular color often used in the hippie psychedelic poster art of the late 1960s for the Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. These posters were sold in the head shops of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and were drawn and produced by such artists as Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse, Rick Griffin, and Victor Moscoso.

Bright Úbe

Bright úbe
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h
)		(72, 56, 293°)
SourceEncycolorpedia
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
A piece of cake flavoured with ube

Displayed at right is the color bright

grocery
or speciality stores.

Lavender (floral)

lavender
flower.
Lavender (floral)
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(62, 71, 287°)
SourceMaerz and Paul[28]
ISCC–NBS descriptorBrilliant purple
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color Lavender (floral). This color matches the color shown as "lavender" (viewed under a

full-spectrum fluorescent lamp) in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color (reference below), the world
standard for color names before the introduction of computers. This color may also be called floral lavender. It is a medium violet.

This tone of lavender would be the approximate color you would get if you mix 50% violet paint and 50% white paint.

This tone of lavender may be regarded as actual lavender and the other tones displayed in this article can be regarded as all variations on this shade.[29]

This lavender also closely matches the color given as lavender in a basic purple color chart.

Amethyst

Amethyst as a quaternary color on the RYB color wheel
  purple
  amethyst
  violet
Amethyst crystals.
Amethyst crystals
Amethyst
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(53, 76, 283°)
Sourcehtmlcsscolor[30]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid violet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color amethyst is a moderate, transparent violet. Its name is derived from the stone amethyst, a form of quartz. Amethyst is the birthstone for those born in February.

The first recorded use of amethyst as a color name in English was in 1572.[31]

Faceted amethyst
Faceted amethyst.

Though the color of natural amethyst varies from purple to yellow, the amethyst color referred to here is the moderate purple color most commonly associated with amethyst stones. There is disagreement as to the cause of the purple color of the amethyst stone. Some believe that the color is due to the presence of manganese, while others have suggested that the amethyst color could be from ferric thiocyanate or sulfur found in amethyst stones.[32]

Lavender indigo

Lavender indigo
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(51, 107, 277°)
Source[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color lavender indigo[33] is displayed at right.

Lavender indigo is a shade of lavender that is similar to the color blue-violet, a shade of indigo.

Deep lavender (web color medium purple)

Medium purple
 
X11
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid violet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Main article: Purple

Displayed at right is the web color medium purple which is equivalent to deep medium violet or deep lavender.

Lavender purple (purple mountain majesty)

Purple mountain majesty
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(55, 48, 284°)
SourceCrayola
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight violet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color purple mountain majesty, a Crayola color since 1993. This color may be regarded as a medium lavender gray.[citation needed]

This color was the color called lavender in Crayola crayons before 1958, when Crayola switched to calling the color shown above as lavender pink as being lavender. See the website "Lost Crayola Crayon Colors".[34] Because of that, another name for this color is lavender purple.

Mountain view at Auke Bay, Alaska, showing distinctive purple tinges.
Mountain view at Auke Bay, Alaska showing distinctive purple tinges.

This color is a representation of the way mountains look when they are far away.

English lavender

English lavender
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(60, 30, 347°)
SourcePantone TPX[35]
ISCC–NBS descriptorGrayish purplish red
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color English lavender.

English lavender is a medium light tone of grayish pinkish lavender.

English lavender
English lavender.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #17-3617 TPX—English Lavender.[36]

Twilight lavender

Twilight lavender
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(40, 40, 339°)
SourceCrayola
ISCC–NBS descriptorDark purplish-red
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color twilight lavender is displayed at right. Twilight lavender is a color formulated by Crayola in 1990 as one of the colors in its Silver Swirls specialty box of metallic colors.

Although this is supposed to be a metallic color, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer.

Dark lavender

Dark lavender
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(40, 53, 284°)
SourceVexillological
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Bisexual pride flag

Displayed at right is the color dark lavender, a representation of the exact shade of lavender that is used in the central band of the

men
. For the specifications of the color tones of the top and bottom color bands, see the image of the flag in the bisexual pride flag article.

Halayà úbe

Halayà úbe
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(30, 28, 332°)
SourceInternet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the rich dark lavender purple color halayà úbe,[37] the color of the purple yam jam (halayà úbe) sold in Filipino grocery stores. The source of this color is the following website offering Filipino foods for sale (see under Halaya Ube):[38]

Old lavender

Old lavender
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(46, 13, 310°)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorGrayish-purple
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The dark lavender gray color displayed at right is called old lavender. It is a dark grayish-violet.

The first recorded use of old lavender as a color name in English was in the year 1924.[39]

In culture

Fashion

  • In the formal rules of mourning dress in Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian Britain, lavender was one of the few colors generally considered acceptable for women's clothing during the period of half-mourning, during which the bereaved was considered to still be in mourning and required to dress in sober, muted tones, but was not expected to wear the all-black garments of full mourning.
  • Lavender roses are symbolic of "love at first sight".[40]
  • In 1995 actress Uma Thurman wore a notable lavender colored dress by Prada to the Academy Award ceremonies, where she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

LGBT

Lavender Heights in Sacramento, California
Lavender Heights in Sacramento, California.


Music

Religion

  • In
    St. Germain
    , and lavender is simply a light tone of violet, lavender as well as violet objects may be placed on the altar to St. Germain.
  • The Christian holiday of Easter is represented by lavender and yellow because the crocus flower, which is lavender and yellow, blooms in Europe in the spring.[citation needed]

Film, television and video games

Numismatics

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a lavender colored banknote of ₹100 denomination under Mahatma Gandhi New Series. The bank note measures 142 mm × 66 mm.

See also

References

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  3. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill See discussion of color lavender, Page 163; See color Sample of Lavender—Page 109 Plate 43 Color Sample C5 (Note that the color sample of lavender shown in the book A Dictionary of Color (the world standard for color matching before the introduction of computers) matches the shade of lavender displayed above under the heading "Lavender (floral)" )
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  11. ^ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called periwinkle in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color periwinkle is displayed on page 109, Plate 43, Color Sample B8.
  12. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196—Lavender blue shown as one of the three major variations of lavender under heading lavender; Page 190—Lavender blue is listed as blue-lavender, first use of the color term is identified as 1926, and the color is identified with periwinkle.
  13. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 207; Color Sample of Wisteria: Page 105 Plate 41 Color Sample E8
  14. ^ Type the words "Pink Lavender" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color will appear.
  15. ^ Pantone TPX Pantone Color Finder—Type the words "Pink Lavender" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color will appear:
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  28. ^ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called lavender in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color lavender is displayed on page 109, Plate 43, Color Sample C5.
  29. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Color Sample of Lavender—Page 109 Plate 43 Color Sample C5 (The color sample of lavender shown in A Dictionary of Color matches the tone of lavender displayed above under the heading "Lavender (floral)")
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  36. ^ Pantone TPX Pantone Color Finder—Type the words "English Lavender" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color will appear:
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