Tan | |
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Common connotations | |
skin color, sunbathing | |
Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #D2B48C |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (210, 180, 140) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (34°, 33%, 82%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (75, 39, 56°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Grayish yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Some shades of Tan | |
Dark Tan |
Tan is a pale tone of brown. The name is derived from tannum (oak bark) used in the tanning of leather. [1]
The first recorded use of tan as a color name in English was in the year 1590. [2]
Colors which are similar or may be considered synonymous to tan include: tawny, tenné, and fulvous.
Sandy Tan | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FDD9B5 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (253, 217, 181) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (30°, 28%, 99%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (89, 39, 51°) |
Source | Crayola [3] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Pale orange yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the color Sandy tan.
This color was formulated by Crayola in 2000 as a Crayola marker color.
Tan | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FAA76C |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (250, 167, 108) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (25°, 57%, 98%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (75, 79, 37°) |
Source | Crayola |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Moderate orange |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the orangish tone of tan called tan since 1958 in Crayola crayons and 1990 in Crayola markers.
Windsor Tan | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #AE6838 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (174, 104, 56) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (24°, 68%, 68%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (51, 66, 34°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Strong brown |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the color Windsor tan.
The first recorded use of Windsor tan as a color name in English was in 1925. [4]
Tuscan Tan | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #A67B5B |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (166, 123, 91) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (26°, 45%, 65%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (55, 41, 41°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light brown |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the color Tuscan tan.
The first recorded use of Tuscan tan as a color name in English was in 1926. [5]
The normalized color coordinates for Tuscan tan are identical to café au lait and French beige, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1839 [6] and 1927, [7] respectively.
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The various tones of the color coral are orange, red and pink representations of the colors of those cnidarians known as precious corals.
Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool. A more than 300 year old antecessor of the word "beige" can be found in the surname of Louis de Béchameil and the French name for Béchamel sauce.
Bistre is a pigment made from soot. Historically, beechwood was burned to produce the soot, which was boiled and diluted with water. Many Old Masters used bistre as the ink for their wash paintings.[1] Bistre's appearance is generally of a dark grayish brown, with a yellowish cast.
Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper.
Blue-green is the color between blue and green. It belongs to the cyan family.
Taupe is a dark gray-brown color. The word derives from the French noun taupe meaning "mole". The name originally referred only to the average color of the French mole, but beginning in the 1940s, its usage expanded to encompass a wider range of shades.
Ecru is still defined by some dictionaries as the colour of unbleached linen, which it still is in French. In English, over the years it has come to be used for a quite different, much darker color.
Amaranth is a reddish-rose color that is a representation of the color of the flower of the amaranth plant. The color shown is the color of the red amaranth flower, but there are other varieties of amaranth that have other colors of amaranth flowers; these colors are also shown below.
In optics, orange has a wavelength between approximately 585 and 620 nm and a hue of 30° in HSV color space. In the RGB color space it is a secondary color numerically halfway between gamma-compressed red and yellow, as can be seen in the RGB color wheel. The complementary color of orange is azure. Orange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families, and absorb mostly blue light.
Varieties of the color green may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a green or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a red or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors are shown below.
Pink colors are usually light or desaturated shades of reds, roses, and magentas which are created on computer and television screens using the RGB color model and in printing with the CMYK color model. As such, it is an arbitrary classification of color.
Tuscan red is a shade of red that was used on some railroad cars, particularly passenger cars.
Desert sand is a very light and very weakly saturated reddish yellow colour which corresponds specifically to the coloration of sand. It may also be regarded as a deep tone of beige.
Shades of white are colors that differ only slightly from pure white. Variations of white include what are commonly termed off-white colors, which may be considered part of a neutral color scheme.
Variations of gray or grey include achromatic grayscale shades, which lie exactly between white and black, and nearby colors with low colorfulness. A selection of a number of these various colors is shown below.
Coffee is a brownish color that is a representation of a roasted coffee bean. Different types of coffee beans have different colors when roasted—the color coffee represents an average.
Shades of brown can be produced by combining red, yellow, and black pigments, or by a combination of orange and black—illustrated in the color box. The RGB color model, that generates all colors on computer and television screens, makes brown by combining red and green light at different intensities. Brown color names are often imprecise, and some shades, such as beige, can refer to lighter rather than darker shades of yellow and red. Such colors are less saturated than colors perceived to be orange. Browns are usually described as light or dark, reddish, yellowish, or gray-brown. There are no standardized names for shades of brown; the same shade may have different names on different color lists, and sometimes one name can refer to several very different colors. The X11 color list of web colors has seventeen different shades of brown, but the complete list of browns is much longer.
Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel.