Tan

#D2B48C

Traces to the tanning process itself — oak-bark tannin, historically used to cure and color leather hide, gave both the verb 'to tan' and the resulting warm beige-brown color its shared name, making Tan one of the few CSS colors named after an industrial process rather than a static material.

Every value on this page is computed at build time from the hex code above using ChromaWell's shared, unit-tested color-core library — the same conversion, contrast, and nearest-name math used across every color page on this site, so a value here matches the same color looked up anywhere else on ChromaWell.

The conversions block gives you the same color in seven common formats (hex, RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, Lab, and OKLCH) so you can copy whichever your codebase or design tool expects. The contrast block applies the WCAG 2.x relative-luminance formula against several common backgrounds and reports whether text in this color would pass AA or AAA at normal and large text sizes. Shades/tints step the lightness up and down at a fixed hue and saturation; harmonies rotate the hue around the color wheel to surface complementary, analogous, triadic, and split-complementary partners; and nearest named colors ranks the closest matches from our full 1,094-color dataset by CIE76 Delta-E distance in Lab space, a perceptual distance metric rather than a raw RGB difference.

Conversions

HEX: #D2B48C
RGB: rgb(210, 180, 140)
HSL: hsl(34.3, 43.7%, 68.6%)
HSV: hsv(34.3, 33.3%, 82.4%)
CMYK: cmyk(0, 14.3, 33.3, 17.6)
Lab: lab(74.98, 5.02, 24.43)
OKLCH: oklch(0.7862 0.0638 74.6)

WCAG contrast

On white: 1.97:1 — normal text FAIL, large text FAIL
On black: 10.65:1 — normal text AAA, large text AAA
On pure white: 1.97:1 — normal text FAIL, large text FAIL
On pure black: 10.65:1 — normal text AAA, large text AAA
On light gray (#F3F4F6): 1.79:1 — normal text FAIL, large text FAIL
On dark slate (#1F2937): 7.44:1 — normal text AAA, large text AAA

Ratios computed from WCAG 2.x relative luminance; AA needs 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text (18pt+ or 14pt+ bold), AAA needs 7:1 and 4.5:1 respectively.

Shades & tints

#8D6937

#BC9055

#D2B48C

#E7D8C3

#FDFCFA

Lightness stepped ±15% and ±30% in HSL space at constant hue and saturation (34.3°, 43.7%) — a shade darkens toward black, a tint lightens toward white.

Color harmonies

Hue-wheel relationships computed at this color's exact hue (34.3°), holding saturation and lightness constant.

Complementary

#8CAAD2

rgb(140, 170, 210)

Analogous −30°

#D2918C

rgb(210, 145, 140)

Analogous +30°

#CDD28C

rgb(205, 210, 140)

Triadic 120°

#8CD2B4

rgb(140, 210, 180)

Triadic 240°

#B48CD2

rgb(180, 140, 210)

Split-complementary −150°

#918CD2

rgb(145, 140, 210)

Split-complementary +150°

#8CCDD2

rgb(140, 205, 210)

Nearest named colors

Tan (ΔE 0.0)
BurlyWood (ΔE 6.3)
Wheat (ΔE 14.8)
PeachPuff (ΔE 15.1)
NavajoWhite (ΔE 15.6)

Ranked by CIE76 Delta-E distance in Lab space — the lower the number, the closer the perceptual match to this exact color.

Perceptual profile

Hue 34.3° places this color in the warm range of the wheel. At 43.7% saturation it reads as muted, and at 68.6% lightness it sits light. In OKLCH — the newer, perceptually uniform color space — this color's lightness is 0.7862, chroma 0.0638, hue 74.6°, which is a more accurate predictor of how "bright" this color will look next to others than HSL lightness alone.

Use in CSS

This is a warm hue at 43.7% saturation and 68.6% lightness. Drop it into a stylesheet as a custom property:

:root {
  --color-d2b48c: #D2B48C;
}
.el {
  color: var(--color-d2b48c);
}

Part of the open CSS/X11 named-color set — see methodology.