page_title: Lavender (color)
section_title: Lavender purple (purple mountain majesty)
hierarchical_section_title: Lavender (color) / Variations / Lavender purple (purple mountain majesty)
caption_attribution_description: Auke Rec, Auke Bay Alaska
context_page_description: Lavender is a light purple. It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name. The web color called lavender is displayed at right—it matches the color of the very palest part of the lavender flower; however, the more saturated color shown below 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 the average person as opposed to those who are web site designers. The color lavender might be described as a medium purple or a light pinkish purple.
  The term lavender may be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light or greyish purples but only on the blue side. Lilac is pale purple on the pink side. In paints, the colour lavender is made by mixing purple and white paint.
  The first recorded use of the word lavender as a color term in English was in 1705.
context_section_description: Displayed at right is the color purple mountain majesty, a Crayola color since 1993. This color may be regarded as a medium lavender gray.
  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". Because of that, another name for this color is lavender purple.
  This color is a representation of the way mountains look when they are far away.
caption: Mountain view at Auke Bay, Alaska showing distinctive purple tinges
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