Tan (color)

This box shows the color tan.

Tan is a color that is a pale tone of brown or green tone of orange.

The first written use of tan as a color name in English was in the year 1590.^[1]

The name comes from tannum, (oak bark) used in the tanning of leather.^[2]

Meaning of tan

Tan is the color of the United States Army Rangers beret as well as Canada's CSOR Canadian Special Operations Regiment and JTF2 Joint Task Force 2^[3]
When a person sunbathes to make his or her skin darker that happens due to more melanin production, he or she is said to be getting a tan Archived 2023-06-21 at the Wayback Machine.

Name	HEX Code	Red	Green	Blue	Hue	Sat	Lum	Source
Light Tan	#ECDEC9	236	222	201	36°	100 %	86%	(Tan Light (Xona.com color list))
Sandy Tan	#FDD9B5	253	217	181	30°	28%	85%
Light Peru	#EAC592	234	197	146	35°	38%	75%	(Peru Light (Xona.com color list))
Tan	#D2B48C	210	180	140	34°	33%	69%	(web color)
Orange Tan	#FAA76C	250	167	108	25°	57%	70%	(Tan (Crayola))
Apricot Tan	#E3A857	227	168	87	35°	62%	62%	(Plochere)
Light Hawaiian Tan	#D2A560	210	165	96	36°	54%	60%	(Hawaiian Tan Light (Xona.com color list))
Light Peru Tan	#C18D25	193	141	37	40°	81%	45%	(Peru Tan Light (Xona.com color list))
Peru	#CD853F	205	133	63	30°	69%	53%	(web color)
Peach Tan	#B4745E	180	116	94	15°	48%	54%	(ISCC-NBS #39)
Tuscan Tan	#A67B5B	166	123	91	26°	45%	50%	(ISCC-NBS)
Windsor Tan	#AE6938	174	105	56	25°	68%	45%	(ISCC-NBS)
French Tan	#A75502	167	85	2	30°	99%	33%	(Tan (Pourpre.com))
Hawaiian Tan	#9D5616	157	86	22	28°	75%	35%	(Xona.com color list)
Dark Tan	#865E55	134	94	85	11°	37%	43%	(PerBang.dk)
france Tan	#7F3A02	127	58	2	27°	98%	25%	(Xona.com color list)

↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205
↑ "tan". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
↑ http://www.csor-rosc.forces.gc.ca/index-eng.asp Archived 2013-07-02 at the Wayback Machine.