Lavender (color)

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

Lavender (floral) (#B57EDC)
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Lavender (web) (#E6E6FA)
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Lavender (web color)
 
Common connotations
LGBTQ, calmness, homosexuality
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#E6E6FA
sRGBB (r, g, b)(230, 230, 250)
HSV (h, s, v)(240°, 8%, 98%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(92, 16, 266°)
SourceX11,[1] HSV[2]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVery pale blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet. It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name. The web color called lavender is displayed adjacent—it matches the color of the palest part of the flower; however, the more saturated color shown as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of lavender historically and traditionally considered lavender by average people as opposed to 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.

  1. ^ 4.3. SVG color keywords—X11 colors including gray/grey variants:. (May 2003). Retrieved on 2008-01-05.
  2. ^ "Convert RGB: #E6E6FA @ toolstud.io".
  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)" )
  4. ^ "Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2024-04-27.