Tan (color)

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Tan is a color that is a pale tone of brown or green tone of orange.

The first written use of tan as a color name in English was in the year 1590.[1]

The name comes from tannum, (oak bark) used in the tanning of leather.[2]

  1. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205
  2. "tan". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2011-09-13.

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