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.

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.

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.

Displayed at right is the web color lavender blush.

[citation needed] Displayed at right is the color languid lavender.

[citation needed] 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 version of "lavender" is a lot pinker than the other shades of lavender shown here.At right is displayed the color medium lavender magenta which is equivalent to the web color version of plum (pale plum).

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).

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.At right is displayed the color Lavender (floral).

Its name is derived from the stone amethyst, a form of quartz.

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 be regarded as a medium lavender gray.

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

[30] The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a lavender colored banknote of ₹100 denomination under Mahatma Gandhi New Series.