Lavender is a light tone of violet . This color is reproduced at right : it is equivalent to the web color mistakenly called `` Violet '' which is actually a light violet , i.e. , a lavender of medium saturation ( see the colors displayed in the article on violet for a comparison of the so-called web color `` violet '' with the actual color violet , which is color # 8B00FF : actual color violet ) . Although the web color `` violet '' may be called light violet it is technically actually a light magenta , since the red and blue values of the color are equal ( which signifies for computer display that this color is a shade of magenta ) , and therefore another name for this color is lavender magenta , analogous to the colors lavender gray , lavender indigo , lavender blue , lavender rose , and lavender pink .