tan (color)

{{Infobox color

|title = Sandy Tan

|hex = FDD9B5

|source = CrayolaCrayola Sandy Tan marker

|isccname = Pale orange yellow}}

Displayed at right is the color Sandy tan.

This color was formulated by Crayola in 2000 as a Crayola marker color.

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{{Infobox color

|title=Tan

|hex=FAA76C

|source=Crayola

|isccname=Moderate orange}}

Displayed at right is the orangish tone of tan called tan since 1958 in Crayola crayons and 1990 in Crayola markers.

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{{Infobox color

|title=Windsor Tan

|hex=AE6838

|source={{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20170629200131/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-w.htm ISCC-NBS]}}

|isccname=Strong brown}}

Displayed at right is the color Windsor tan.

The first recorded use of Windsor tan as a color name in English was in 1925.{{cite book

|author1=Aloys John Maerz

|author2=Morris Rea Paul

|title=A Dictionary of Color

|location=New York

|year=1930

|edition=1st

|publisher=McGraw-Hill

|pages=49, 207

}} Plate 13 Color Sample G12; Color Sample of Windsor Tan

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{{Main|Tuscan red}}

{{Infobox color

|title=Tuscan Tan

|hex=A67B5B

|source={{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20170927111850/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-t.htm ISCC-NBS]}}

|isccname=Light brown}}

Displayed at right is the color Tuscan tan.

The first recorded use of Tuscan tan as a color name in English was in 1926.{{cite book

|author1=Aloys John Maerz

|author2=Morris Rea Paul

|title=A Dictionary of Color

|location=New York

|year=1930

|edition=1st

|publisher=McGraw-Hill

|pages=49, 206

}} Plate 13 Color Sample C8; Color Sample of Tuscan tan

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{{cite book

|author1=Aloys John Maerz

|author2=Morris Rea Paul

|title=A Dictionary of Color

|location=New York

|year=1930

|edition=1st

|publisher=McGraw-Hill

|page=47, 191

}} Plate 12 Color Sample A6; Color Sample of Cafe au Lait and 1927,{{cite book

|author1=Aloys John Maerz

|author2=Morris Rea Paul

|title=A Dictionary of Color

|location=New York

|year=1930

|edition=1st

|publisher=McGraw-Hill

|page=49, 195

}} Plate 13 Color Sample A7; Color Sample of French beige respectively.

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Military

• Tan is the color of the United States Army Rangers beret as well as Canada's Canadian Special Operations Regiment and Joint Task Force 2.http://www.csor-rosc.forces.gc.ca/index-eng.asp. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702150821/http://www.csor-rosc.forces.gc.ca/index-eng.asp |date=2013-07-02 }}

Sunbathing

• When a person sunbathes to make their skin darker, they are said to be getting a tan.

United States politics

• The Barack Obama tan suit controversy was an incident when US President Barack Obama wore a tan colored suit during a press conference.

• Lists of colors
• Buff, a similar color
• Khaki, another similar color
• Tawny (color)

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