Tan

Hex #D2B48C, rgb(210 180 140). A brown CSS named color.

Tan#D2B48C

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About Tan

Tan is a light moderately saturated brown with the hex code #D2B48C. In RGB it is made of 210 red, 180 green and 140 blue; in HSL its hue is 34°, with 44% saturation and 69% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 78.6%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "tan" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.97:1 and against black 10.65:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Tan mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Tan 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Tan

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

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Tetradic

Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Tan with white and black. The readable text color on Tan is black.

Tan textSmall text on white

On white1.97:1

AA fail
AA Large fail
AAA fail
UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 38

Tan textSmall text on black

On black10.65:1

AA pass
AA Large pass
AAA pass
UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -64

Black text on Tan (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Tan appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

Protanopia#C0B489
Deuteranopia#C7BB8D
Tritanopia#DEACA9
Protanomaly#C5B58A
Deuteranomaly#C9B98C
Tritanomaly#D6B19A
Achromatopsia#B9B9B9

Colors similar to Tan

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Tan in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.tan {
  color: tan; /* #D2B48C */
  background-color: rgb(210 180 140);
  border-color: oklch(78.6% 0.064 74.6);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-tan-500, text-tan-700... */
@theme {
  --color-tan-50: #FDF9F4;
  --color-tan-100: #F4EADF;
  --color-tan-200: #E6D5BF;
  --color-tan-300: #D2B48C;
  --color-tan-400: #BB8E4D;
  --color-tan-500: #AA7620;
  --color-tan-600: #946305;
  --color-tan-700: #794F00;
  --color-tan-800: #614005;
  --color-tan-900: #4E3408;
  --color-tan-950: #211300;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#D2B48C] text-[#000000]">…</div>