What is Lavender (color)?
{{colorswatch|lavender|B57EDC}} [[Image:Single lavender flower02.jpg|thumb|right|250px|a [[lavender]] flower]] '''Lavender''', a popular [[color]], is a light tone of [[Violet (color)|violet]]. The name comes from the flower of the [[lavender]] plant. Originally, the name ''lavender'' only meant the color of this flower. The color of the flower is still the standard for lavender but there are many other tones of light or medium violet now called ''lavender'' also. The color of the flower can also be called ''floral lavender''. Other shades of lavender can range in [[hue]] from [[pink]]ish [[purple]] through violet to [[blue]]ish-[[indigo]]. They can also range from [[light]] and [[pale]] to medium and [[grey]]ish shades. 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 tones of lavender--''[floral] lavender'', ''lavender gray'', and ''lavender blue'', and in addition a fourth tone of lavender called ''old lavender'' (a dark lavender gray) (all four of these shades of lavender are shown below). By 1955, the ''ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names''<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: [http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-l.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822091612/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-l.htm|date=2017-08-22}}</ref> listed dozens of different shades of lavender. The first recorded use of the word ''lavender'' as a color term in [[English (language)|English]] was in 1705.<ref>Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill Page 197</ref> ==Meaning of lavender== * Lavender represents Revolianism because it is the combination of gender stereotypical colors (pink and blue) mixed with white to emphasize the new beginnings of social norms <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://revolianism.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-meaning-of-revolian-symbol.html|titl