Tan color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around tan. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Tan is #D2B48C, light muted orange. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and tan color palettes to copy.

Tan hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#D2B48C

HEX: #D2B48C
RGB: rgb(210, 180, 140)
HSL: hsl(34, 44%, 69%)
OKLCH: oklch(78.6% 0.064 74.6)
On white: 1.97:1
On black: 10.65:1

Shades of tan

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Tan color values

#D2B48Crgb(210, 180, 140)

Color spaces of #d2b48c
RGB	210	180	140
HSL	34°	44%	69%
HSV	34°	33%	82%
CMYK	0.00	0.14	0.33	0.18
XYZ	47.6341	48.2395	31.6079
Yxy	48.2395	0.3737	0.3784
CIE-Lab	74.9757	5.0213	24.4281
Hunter Lab	69.4546	0.8752	21.6362
OKLCH	78.6%	0.064	74.6°

#D2B48C is 210 red, 180 green and 140 blue. Its red channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #CCCC99.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	11010010	10110100	10001100
Octal	322	264	214
Decimal	210	180	140
Hex	D2	B4	8C

#d2b48c mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#D2B48C
#BDA27E
#A89070
#937D62
#7E6C54
#695A46
#544838
#3F362A
#29231B
#14110D
#000000

#d2b48c mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#D2B48C
#D6BB97
#DBC3A3
#DFCAAE
#E4D2BA
#E8D9C5
#EDE1D1
#F1E8DC
#F6F0E8
#FAF7F3
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red39.6%
Green34.0%
Blue26.4%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#D2B48C
#9EBCE2

Triadic

#D2B48C
#88C7C6
#C9AED6

Analogous

#D2B48C
#BFBC8D
#DDAD98

Monochromatic

#634924
#876B45
#AC8F68
#D2B48C
#FADBB2
#FFF7ED
#FFF7ED

#d2b48c on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 10.65:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 1.97:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #d2b48c

color: #d2b48c;
background-color: #d2b48c;
border: 3px solid #d2b48c;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #d2b48c;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(210, 180, 140, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(78.6% 0.064 74.6);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Tan on white measures 1.97:1 and on black 10.65:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.31:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

Related colors: taupe, brown, sand, tuscan, clay, umber. See every shade on the colors index.

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