Dark Tan Color Codes

Dark Tan is a mid-tone, muted amber with the hex code #918151, RGB values of 145, 129, 81 and an HSL value of hsl(45, 28%, 44%).

HEX	#918151
RGB	145, 129, 81
HSL	hsl(45, 28%, 44%)
HSV	45°, 44%, 57%
CMYK	0%, 11%, 44%, 43%
LAB	54.36, -0.94, 28.21
CIELCHuv	54.36, 36.57, 69.17°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 4505 C ΔE 9.8 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: darkolivegreen ΔE 21.7

Community source Common web usage

Dark Tan Color Hex Code

The Dark Tan color hex code is #918151. Those six digits are three pairs, 91 for red, 81 for green and 51 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#918151

Dark Tan Color RGB Code

The Dark Tan RGB code is rgb(145, 129, 81). Red carries the most light at 145 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(145, 129, 81)

Dark Tan Color HSV Code

The Dark Tan HSV code is 45°, 44%, 57%. Read it as a hue of 45 degrees, 44% saturation and 57% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

45°, 44%, 57%

Dark Tan Color CIELChuv Code

The Dark Tan CIELCHuv code is 54.36, 36.57, 69.17°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 54 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 37 is how far it sits from grey.

54.36, 36.57, 69.17°

Tonal scale

What are Dark Tan Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Dark Tan Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #918151. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #516191, a dark, muted azure blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

#916151 and #819151 sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.

Triadic

#519181 and #815191 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #518191 and #615191. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #516191, and #519161 with #915181. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

3.84:1

3.84

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Black background

5.46:1

5.46

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Against white Dark Tan reaches 3.84:1, enough for large text and UI borders, but short of the 4.5:1 that body copy needs. Darken it for anything set small. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 5.46:1.

Check Dark Tan against another color →

Color vision

How Dark Tan looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#8A8A5F

Dark Tan shifts slightly here. ΔE 8.3

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#8B8C63

Dark Tan shifts slightly here. ΔE 9.4

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#90696B

Dark Tan changes substantially here. ΔE 29.3

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#828282

Dark Tan changes substantially here. ΔE 28.2

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Dark Tan reads as #8B8C63. That is a shift of ΔE 9.4, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 29.3. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Dark Tan in code

:root {
  --dark-tan: #918151;
}

.example {
  color: var(--dark-tan);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'dark-tan': '#918151',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let darkTan = Color(
    red: 0.569,
    green: 0.506,
    blue: 0.318
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="dark_tan">#918151</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const darkTan = Color(0xFF918151);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Dark Tan Color?

Dark Tan reads as earth and age. It is saturated enough to notice and restrained enough to repeat, and at 28% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 54 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Dark Tan Color?

The closest CSS keyword is DarkOliveGreen (#556B2F), though it is not a match: Delta-E 21.7 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 4505 C at #A09151. The name Dark Tan comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Dark Tan Color Made?

On a screen Dark Tan is made by additive light: 145 red, 129 green and 81 blue out of 255, with red leading and 81 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 11%, 44%, 43%. Starting from the pure hue at 45 degrees, Dark Tan is a tone, so it is that hue knocked back with grey.