Lavender (color)
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| Lavender | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #B57EDC | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (181, 126, 220) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (42, 53, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 73%, 54%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
Lavender is a color that is a light shade of violet. It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name (this color is displayed at right); the color lavender might be described as a medium violet or a light pinkish purple.
The term lavender may also be used in general to appply to a wide range of pale, light, medium, or even some dark violet colors.
The first recorded use of the word lavender as a color term in English is in the year 1705. <ref> Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 197 </ref>
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[edit] Historical development of the concept of the color lavender
Originally, the name lavender only applied to the color of the flower of the lavender plant (floral lavender). By 1930, the book A Dictionary of Color <ref> Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill </ref> 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 dark lavender gray) (all four of these shades of lavender are shown below). By 1955, the publication of the SCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (a color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps), now on the internet<ref> ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps--See various shades of the color Lavender displayed on indicated page: [1] </ref>, 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, rose, and magenta colors) , there are many shades of lavender (light violet colors).
[edit] Variations of Lavender
[edit] Lavender blush
| Lavender blush | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #FFF0F5 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (255, 240, 245) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (0, 6, 4, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (340°, 6%, 100%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
Displayed at right is the web color lavender blush.
[edit] Lavendula (Vietnamese lavender)
| Lavendula | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #E6E6FA | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (230, 230, 250) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (10, 10, 2, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 7%, 96%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
Displayed at right is the color lavendula.
This color is also called Vietnamese lavender.
The source of this color is the Vietnamese language Wikipedia article on the color lavender (which can be accessed at left).
[edit] Languid lavender
| Languid lavender | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #D6CADD | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (214, 202, 221) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (0, 17, 0, 22) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 17%, 82%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
Displayed at right is the color languid lavender.
The source of this color is color sample #226 at the following website: [2]--The ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names (1955), a website for stamp collectors to evaluate the colors of their stamps.
[edit] Lavender gray (web color lavender)
| Lavender gray | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #BDBBD7 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (189, 187, 215) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (20, 20, 0, 5) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 8%, 98%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
The web color called lavender which is displayed at right does not look anything at all like what most people think of as lavender; it is much paler and grayer than what most people think of as lavender. It does not even look anything like the color of the flower of the lavender plant. The web color displayed at right looks like lavender wallpaper in an old house that has been exposed to the sun for the last century. This color is a pale grayish lavender. It was apparently chosen as a web color because a neutral color was needed as a background for some websites, but it has little to do with the common idea of lavender.
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). <ref> Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 197 </ref> For some reason, this color was chosen to be the web color lavender rather than the color most people regard as lavender, i.e. floral lavender (shown below)--the actual color of the flower of the lavender plant.
[edit] Pale lavender (light mauve)
| Light mauve | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #DCD0FF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (220, 208, 255) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (17, 21, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (264°, 14%, 100%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
At right is displayed the color light mauve, a color also known as pale lavender. The source of this color is the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps--See sample of the color Lavender (R) #209 displayed on indicated page (along with several other shades of lavender): [3]
[edit] Lavender blue (periwinkle)
| Periwinkle | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #CCCCFF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (204, 204, 255) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (20, 20, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (240°, 20%, 100%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
At right is displayed the color lavender blue (periwinkle), a bluish lavender.
Lavender blue is 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.
<ref> 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 color is identified with periwinkle. </ref>
[edit] Pastel lavender (mauve)
| Mauve | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #E0B0FF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (224, 176, 255) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (12, 31, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (276°, 31%, 100%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
The color mauve, displayed at right, may be regarded as equivalent to pastel lavender.
Mauve was very popular in the 1890s and that decade is referred to as the mauve decade.
[edit] Medium lavender gray (lilac)
| Lilac | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #C8A2C8 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (200, 162, 200) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (0, 19, 0, 22) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 19%, 78%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
At right is displayed the color lilac.
Lilac is equivalent to medium lavender gray.
[edit] Light lavender (web color wisteria)
| Wisteria | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #C9A0DC | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (201, 160, 220) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (16, 40, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (281°, 27%, 86%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
The web color wisteria is displayed at left. 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 the web color wisteria rather than the web color lilac) is this exact color.
Wisteria in this exact shade is one of the Crayola crayon colors on the List of Crayola crayon colors.
[edit] Lavender pink
| Lavender pink | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #FBAED2 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (251, 174, 210) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (0, 43, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (315°, 54%, 92%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
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. This color can be described as lavender pink or pale pinkish-purple when purple is defined as equivalent to red-violet as artists do.
This shade of lavender, displayed at right, is the color designated as lavender (color #74) in the list of Crayola crayon colors.
[edit] Lavender rose
| Lavender rose | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #FBA0E3 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (251, 160, 227) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (9, 46, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (310°, 57%, 90%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
Displayed at right is the color of a lavender rose. Lavender rose color may be described as a light pinkish purple. For more information about the meaning of lavender roses, see below in the "Lavender in Human Culture" section. This color was sampled directly from the following web link: [4]
This color is similar to the color called persian pink.
[edit] Brilliant lavender (electrical lavender)
| Brilliant lavender | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #F4BBFF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (249, 192, 255) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (14, 33, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (297°, 48%, 96%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
The color box at right reproduces the color of the color swatch on the following website which may be regarded as equivalent to the color brilliant lavender: [5]
Considering the brightness of this shade of lavender, another name for this shade of lavender could be electrical lavender. Although lightning is usually colored cyan, or light blue, sometimes in some weather conditions, lightning flashes can appear to be this color of lavender.
[edit] Medium lavender (web color [light] violet) (artist's lavender)
| Light violet | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #EE82EE | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (238, 130, 238) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (24, 54, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (300°, 67%, 88%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
A common perception of what lavender is, which might be called medium lavender is a light violet color somewhere between the web colors heliotrope and the web color 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., medium lavender (see the color bands displayed at the bottom of the article on violet for comparison of this color with the actual color violet).
This is the shade of lavender that is designated as "lavender" in the Berol Eagle Prismacolor colored pencil that is called by that name (Prismacolor colored pencil number PC 934). Another name for this shade of lavender could be artist's lavender since this color is what is usually designated as lavender in art materials.
[edit] Vivid lavender (heliotrope) (psychedelic lavender)
| Heliotrope | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #DF73FF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (223, 115, 255) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (13, 55, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (286°, 55%, 100%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
At right is displayed the color heliotrope, which may be described as a vivid lavender.
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 that were and are sold in the head shops of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. These posters were drawn and produced by such artists as Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse, Rick Griffin, and Victor Moscoso. Images of psychedelic posters: [6]
[edit] Lavender magenta (sky magenta)
| Sky magenta | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #CF71AF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (207, 113, 175) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (5, 98, 7, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (304°, 47%, 54%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
Displayed at right is the color sky magenta. This color was one of the colors in the set of Venus Paradise colored pencils, a popular brand of colored pencils in the 1950s. This color was sampled directly from the image of the actual colored pencil in a picture of a set of Venus colored pencils for sale on eBay.
This color is also called lavender magenta.
[edit] Dull deep lavender (Wikipedia link lavender)
| Wikipedia lavender | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #9C87CD | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (158, 137, 193) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (47, 48, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (°, %, %) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
A good approximation to a common idea of lavender would be the color of a formerly blue Wikipedia link that has turned a shade of light violet because you have already been to that article. This color, Wikipedia lavender, which could be described as dull deep lavender or pale dull medium violet , is reproduced in the color box at right.
[edit] Medium bright lavender (bright ube)
| Bright ube | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #D19FE8 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (209, 159, 232) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (32, 47, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 72%, 64%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
Displayed at right is the color bright ube. (The word ube is pronounced oohbay.) This color may be called a medium bright lavender. This is the color produced when purple yams (ubes) (which are colored the color shown below as ube) are mixed with sugar and eggs and made into ube pastries or ube ice cream. These products are available in Filipino grocery stores.
The source of this color is the picture of an ube cake in the Wikipedia article on ube.
[edit] Bright lavender (light floral lavender) (lavender bandana)
| Bright lavender | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #BF94E4 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (191, 148, 228) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (34, 45, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 68%, 60%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
Displayed at right is the color of a lavender bandana. This color may be called bright lavender or lavender bandana. It is a pale brilliant medium violet. The source of this color is the following web link: [7] (The sample was taken from lavender bandana pictured in the picture from the website [8].)
This color may also be called light floral lavender as it is the color of the lighter outer part of the actual flower of the lavender plant.
[edit] Lavender (floral lavender)
| Lavender | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #B57EDC | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (181, 126, 220) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (42, 53, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 73%, 54%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
The color in the color box at right indicated as lavender may be regarded as true lavender since it was sampled directly from the picture of an actual lavender flower in the Wikipedia article on the lavender plant. Although different parts of the lavender flower are various shades of lavender, the color displayed at right was chosen from a pixel that is a medium shade (not extremely dark or extremely light) of all the pixels in the photograph of the lavender flower in the Wikipedia article on the lavender plant and that would match the color shown as "lavender" in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color (reference below), the standard for color names before the introduction of computers. This color may also be called floral lavender. It is a medium violet.
This shade of lavender would be the color you would get if you mix together 50% violet paint and 50% white paint.
Alternatively, you could obtain this color by mixing together 50% pink (the color which represents girls) and 50% light blue (the color which represents boys). That is why this color is the shade of lavender associated with homosexuality and is also called gay lavender.
This shade may be regarded as actual lavender and the other shades displayed in this article can be regarded as all variations on this shade. <ref> 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 shade of lavender shown above as "Lavender") </ref>
This lavender also closely matches the color given as lavender in a basic purple color chart.
[edit] Rich Lavender (deep floral lavender)
| Rich lavender | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #A76BCF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (170, 97, 204) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (48, 63, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 78%, 47%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
At right is displayed the color rich lavender, the deep lavender color of the inner part of the flower of the lavender plant.
This is a deep floral lavender.
[edit] Deep rich lavender (deep lilac)
| Deep lilac | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #9955BB | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (153, 85, 187) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (42, 57, 0, 10) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 68%, 67%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
The color deep lilac, a deep rich lavender, is displayed at right. This color may be described as a deep rich medium violet.
This deeper shade of lilac is the color usually described as lilac in Europe, as opposed to the paler web color lilac shown above as medium lavender gray. The source of this color is the German language Wikipedia article on the color violet, where it is described as lilac and is described as being a shade of violet.
[edit] Medium deep lavender (amethyst)
| Amethyst | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #9966CC | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (153, 102, 204) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (25, 50, 0, 20) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 50%, 80%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
The color amethyst is a moderate, transparent violet. Its name is derived from the stone amethyst, a form of quartz. 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.
This color may also be called medium deep lavender. It is a deep rich medium violet.
[edit] Deep rich lavender gray (purple yam) (Okinawan yam) (ube)
| Ube | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #8878C3 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (136, 120, 195) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (, , 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (°, %, %) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
This color, a deep rich lavender gray was sampled from a picture of the interior of an Okinawan yam, a variety of sweet potato which is called the purple yam in English and is called ube in Tagalog, the most commonly used language in the Philippines after English. Therefore, another name for this color is ube (pronounced oohbay). (To see a picture of the interior flesh of an Okinawan yam from which this color sample was taken, go to: [9])
[edit] Deep lavender (web color medium purple)
| Medium purple | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #9370DB | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (147, 112, 219) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (56, 58, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 68%, 72%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
Displayed at right is the web color medium purple which is equivalent to deep medium violet or deep lavender.
[edit] Dark lavender
| Dark lavender | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #734F96 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (115, 79, 150) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (43, 76, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (°, %, %) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
Displayed at right is the exact shade of lavender that is used in the Bisexual pride flag, Pantone Color #258, which may be regarded as dark lavender or bisexual lavender. It is a deep medium violet.
This is a deeper lavender than the gay lavender described above as true lavender because this color is regarded as a combination of a deep shade of magenta similar to shocking pink, the color representing women and a deep blue, the color representing men. For exact shades, see the bisexual pride flag link noted above.)
[edit] Old lavender (dark lavender gray)
| Old lavender | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #796878 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (121, 104, 120) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (38, 44, 0, 27) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (270°, 3%, 22%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
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 AD 1924. <ref> Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 200 </ref>
The source of this color is color sample #228 at the following website: [10]--The ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names (1955), a website for stamp collectors to evaluate the colors of their stamps.
[edit] Shades in the lavender range of colors — color comparison chart
- Lavender Blush (web color) - pale blush violet (Hex: #FFF0F5) (RGB: 255, 240, 245)
- Lavendula (Vietnamese Lavender) - pale blush grayish violet (Hex: #E6E6FA) (RGB: 230, 230, 250)
- Languid Lavender - blush grayish violet (Hex: #D6CADD) (RGB: 214, 202, 221)
- Lavender Gray (web color Lavender [Gray]) - pale grayish violet (Hex: #BDBBD7) (RGB: 189, 187, 215)
- Pale Lavender - Light Mauve - (Hex: #DCD0FF) - blush violet (RGB: 220, 208, 255)
- Lavender Blue - web color Periwinkle - pale bluish violet (Hex: #CCCCFF) (RGB: 204, 204, 255)
- Pastel Lavender - Mauve - pale violet (Hex: #E0B0FF) (RGB: 224, 176, 255)
- Medium Lavender Gray - Lilac - pale light violet (Hex: #C8A2C8) (RGB: 200, 162, 200)
- Light Lavender - Wisteria - light medium violet (Hex: #C9A0DC (RGB: 201, 160, 220)
- Lavender Pink - Crayola color Lavender [Pink] - pale pinkish-purple (Hex: #FBAED2) (RGB: 251, 174, 210)
- Lavender Rose - light pinkish-purple (Hex: #FBA0E3) (RGB: 251, 160, 227)
- Brilliant Lavender (Electrical Lavender) - pastel violet (Hex: #F4BBFF (RGB: 249, 192, 255)
- Medium Lavender - ([light] violet [web color])- light violet - Prismacolor color Lavender (Hex: #EE82EE) (RGB: 238, 130, 238)
- Vivid Lavender - (Psychedelic Lavender) Heliotrope - vivid light violet (Hex: #DF73FF) (RGB: 223, 115, 255)
- Lavender Magenta (Sky Magenta) - dull magentaish-violet (dull purple) (Hex: #CF71AF) (RGB: 207, 113, 175)
- Dull Deep Lavender (Wikipedia Link Lavender) - pale grayish medium violet (Hex: #9C87CD) (RGB: 158, 137, 193)
- Medium Bright Lavender (Bright Ube) - light pale brilliant medium violet - (Hex: #D19FE8) (RGB: 209, 159, 232)
- Bright Lavender (Light Floral Lavender) - pale brilliant medium violet - Lavender Bandana (Hex: #BF94E4) (RGB: 191, 148, 228)
- LAVENDER (Floral Lavender) - medium violet (Hex: #B57EDC) (RGB: 181, 126, 220)
- Rich Lavender (Deep Floral Lavender) - rich medium violet (Hex: #A76BCF) (RGB: 170, 97, 204)
- Deep Rich Lavender - Deep Lilac - deep rich medium violet (Hex: #9955BB) (RGB: 153, 85, 187)
- Medium Deep Lavender - Amethyst - deep rich medium violet (Hex: #9966CC) (RGB: 153, 102, 204)
- Deep Rich Lavender Gray (Purple Yam) (Okinawan Yam) (Ube) - grayish medium violet (Hex: #8878C3) (RGB: 136, 120, 195)
- Deep Lavender - (Medium Purple [web color]) - deep medium violet (Hex: #9370DB) (RGB: 147, 112, 219)
- Dark Lavender - Pantone Color #258 - dark medium violet (Hex: #734F96) (RGB: 115, 79, 150)
- Old Lavender (Dark Lavender Gray) - dark grayish violet (Hex: #796878) (RGB: 121, 104, 120)
[edit] Lavender in Human Culture
Consumer Products
- The lavender plant has a marvelous fragrance, so lavender scented and colored bath oil is a very popular retail product.
- In the summer of 2006, the Procter and Gamble Corporation of Cincinnati, Ohio made available for the first time Ivory Soap colored and scented lavender. The shade of lavender chosen for this new product is the pastel lavender (pale violet) color called mauve described above.
Culture
- The color described above as [true] lavender or floral lavender or the color described above as medium lavender may both be used to symbolize decadence, in the sense of sex, drugs, and rock and roll music, sumptuous art with rich colors and bizarre designs, and fine gourmet food. The 1980 book Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet by Richard Gilman has a book jacket colored floral lavender and the interior paper of the inside front and back covers of the book is colored floral lavender. <ref> Gilman, Richard Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet New York:1980--Farrar, Straus, and Griroux </ref> The 1972 book Dreamers of Decadence by Philippe Jullian (about the decadent movement in art in the late 1800s in Europe) has the spine of the book jacket colored the color described above as medium lavender. <ref> Jullian, Philippe Dreamers of Decadence: Symbolist Painters of the 1890's 1972 </ref> [11]
Food
- Okinawan "yams" (actually a variety of sweet potato) are colored the color shown above as grayish deep lavender and in the Tagalog language of the Philippines these yams are called "ube". (To see a picture of an Okinawan yam, go to: [12]) [13] [14]
Religion
- Since lavender is a light shade of violet, and violet is the color used to represent the New Age deity the Count of St Germain, sometimes lavender is used in association with violet to represent St. Germain. For example, lavender objects or lavender flowers may be placed on an altar to St. Germain, or lavender and violet clothing may be worn (in combination with wearing amethyst jewelry) when worshipping or meditating on St. Germain. [15]
- Lavender and yellow symbolizes the holy day of Easter in the Christian religion because the season of Spring, when Easter occurs, is when the crocus flower, which is lavender and yellow, blooms in Europe. [16]
Romantic Love
- Lavender roses are sometimes given by LGBTs to each other on Valentine's Day or may be given to those entering into a same-sex marriage. Images of lavender roses: [17]
Sexuality
- Just as in the 1890s mauve symbolized homosexuality, the shade of lavender described above as [true] lavender or floral lavender became the symbol of homosexuality in the early 1900's, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. This is apparently because lavender is the color you get if you mix 50% pink (the color symbolizing girls) with 50% light blue (the color symbolizing boys). In the 1960s, homophiles were sometimes referred to as the lavender boys (this term is still used by some people [both gay and non-gay] to refer to gays). A lavender convention is a convention of homosexuals. A heterosexual who has some homosexual tendencies is described as someone with a dash of lavender. <ref> Rodgers, Bruce Gay Talk: The Queen's Vernacular--A Dictionary of Gay Slang New York:1972--Paragon Books, G.P. Putnam's Sons Page 124 -- Lavender </ref> In the 1970s pink became more often associated with homosexuality because of the use of the pink triangle as a symbol of gay liberation. However, gays of the baby boom generation still think of lavender as the gayest color. <ref> Jay, Karla and Young, Allen Lavender Culture: The Perceptive Voices of Outspoken Lesbians and Gay Men New York:1978--Jove/HBJ Books (Published by Jove Publications, Inc., an imprint of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) </ref> [18]
- United States Patriots who are advocates of gay liberation point out that if you mix together red, white, and blue, you get lavender.
- Lavender is the name of the LGBT magazine for Minnesota.
- In the handkerchief code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a lavender bandana symbolizes that you have a fetish for dressing in drag.
- The color lavender shown above as dark lavender represents bisexuality since it is one of the three colors in the Bisexual pride flag, invented in 1998. This shade of dark lavender is a combination of a deep blue (representing men) and a deep magenta similar to shocking pink (representing women). (To see the exact colors in the Bisexual Pride Flag, go to the Wikipedia article link shown above). [19]
[edit] References
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[edit] See also
- Homintern--The Lavender Conspiracy
- Heliotrope
- Mauve
- Violet
- Wisteria
- List of colors
[edit] External links
- [20] Pictures of fields of lavender with lavender flowers in bloom and swatches of lavender color.
- [21] Chinese website that sells lavender (although this is a commercial site, it is linked here only in order to allow users to view the elaborate and colorful website design using various shades of lavender).
| Shades of violet | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amethyst | Cerise | Eggplant | Fuchsia | Heliotrope | Indigo | Lavender | Lavender blush | Lilac | Magenta | Mauve | Mountbatten pink |
| Orchid | Persian indigo | Purple | Red-violet | Sangria | Thistle | Violet | Violet-eggplant | Wisteria | Rose | Lavender rose | Lavender gray |
| Shades of violet without swatches | |||||||||||
| Iris | Palatinate | Purpure | |||||||||
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