This is an accepted version of this page Tan is a pale tone of brown.

The name is derived from tannum (oak bark) used in the tanning of leather.

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

[2] Colors which are similar or may be considered synonymous to tan include: tawny, tenné, and fulvous.

[5] 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[6] and 1927,[7] respectively.