This is an accepted version of this page Violet is a color term derived from the flower of the same name.

Even among many modern speakers within the English-speaking world there is confusion about the terms purple and violet.

[2] The blue-dominated spectral color beyond blue is referred to as purple by many speakers in the United States, but this color is called violet by many speakers in the United Kingdom.

[3][4] In some British authoritative texts the term purple refers to any mixture of red and blue, suggesting the color term purple covers the full range between red and blue in the United Kingdom.

[3] In other texts it is the term violet that covers the same full range of colors.

[5] The uncertainty about the range of meanings of the color terms violet and purple is even larger when other languages and historical texts are considered.

This tone of violet—an approximation of the color violet at about 417 nanometers as plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram—is shown at right.

[citation needed] When plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram, it can be seen that this is a hue corresponding to that of a visual stimulus of approximately 380 nm on the spectrum.

The web color violet is actually a rather pale tint of magenta because it has equal amounts of red and blue (the definition of magenta for computer display), and some of the green primary mixed in, unlike most other variants of violet that are closer to blue.

[32] Since the color lavender has a hue code of 275, it may be regarded as a light tone of violet.

[35] Since the color mauve has a hue code of 276, it may be regarded as a pale tone of violet.