Lavender is a light shade of 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 website designers. The color lavender might be described as a "medium purple" or a "light pinkish-purple".