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  2. Tan (color) - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. Human skin color - Wikipedia

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    Human skin color. Extended Coloured ( Afrikaans: Kleurlinge or Bruinmense) family from South Africa showing some spectrum of human skin coloration. Human skin color ranges from the darkest brown to the lightest hues. Differences in skin color among individuals is caused by variation in pigmentation, which is the result of genetics (inherited ...

  4. List of Crayola crayon colors - Wikipedia

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    All 16 Crayola Heads 'n Tails crayon colors. The eight Heads 'n Tails Crayons are double-sided and encased in plastic tubes that function much like the ones on Crayola Twistables. Each crayon has two shades of color, for a total of 16 colors, which are approximated by the background colors and hex RGB values below.

  5. Olive skin - Wikipedia

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    Olive skin. Olive skin is a human skin tone. It is often associated with pigmentation in the Type III [1] [2] to Type IV and Type V ranges of the Fitzpatrick scale. [3] [4] It generally refers to moderate or lighter tan or brownish skin, and it is often described as having tan, brown, cream, greenish, yellowish, or golden undertones.

  6. Von Luschan's chromatic scale - Wikipedia

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    Skin colors according to von Luschan's chromatic scale. Von Luschan's chromatic scale ( VLS) is a method of classifying skin color. It is also called the von Luschan scale or von Luschan's scale. It is named after its inventor, Felix von Luschan. The equipment consisted of 36 opaque glass tiles which were compared to the subject's skin, ideally ...

  7. Pantone 448 C - Wikipedia

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    B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Pantone 448 C is a colour in the Pantone colour system. Described as a "drab dark brown " and informally dubbed the "ugliest colour in the world", it was selected in 2012 as the colour for plain tobacco and cigarette packaging in Australia, after market researchers determined that it was the least attractive ...

  8. Fawn (colour) - Wikipedia

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    Fawn is a light yellowish tan colour. It is usually used in reference to clothing, soft furnishings and bedding, as well as to a dog 's coat colour. It occurs in varying shades, ranging between pale tan to pale fawn to dark deer-red. The first recorded use of fawn as a colour name in English was in 1789. [1]

  9. Tawny (color) - Wikipedia

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    Tawny (color) The tawny owl ( Strix aluco) gives an example of tawny used as an adjective in a name. Latin scientific names may use the adjective fulvus (or variations), meaning tawny or fulvous. An example is Cinnycerthia fulva, the binomial name of the fulvous wren. Tawny (also called tenné) is a light brown to brownish- orange color.