Tan (#D2B48C) is a light, moderately saturated orange hue. Tan is a light brown that works as a warm neutral in leather goods and outdoor brands.
In RGB it is made of 210 red, 180 green and 140 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 34° with 44% saturation and 69% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 79% with a chroma of 0.064. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 14% magenta, 33% yellow and 18% black.
As a text color on white, Tan has a contrast ratio of 1.97:1, which fails WCAG AA even for large text. On black it reaches 10.65:1 and passes AA for normal text. If you use Tan as a background, put black (or very dark) text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 66 for black text and Lc -42 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #9EBCE2, close to sky blue. Colors that look most similar are khaki, dusty rose, sand. It looks fairly similar to people with red-green color blindness (ΔE 2), so its meaning mostly survives.