Talk:Tan (color)

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Color infobox[edit]

The infobox is missing, I tried to edit it, but I don't know how yet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.176.221.185 (talk) 05:57, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Brownish Brown?[edit]

The first sentence says that tan is a brownish brown. This seems, redundant. "Tan is a pale brownish, tawny shade of brown" Daedalus733 (talk) 19:03, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Right Hexs'[edit]

The correct hex for Tan is CC8454 and Dark Tan's hex is 483730 so please don't change them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.182.193.102 (talk) 04:14, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In this case the shade of fan used in the lead image box is cited to the X11 color space, which gives the value D2B48C, so that is what is used. More importantly, you haven't cited your source at all, and instead keep insisting on changing sourced data to unsourced data against the sources and consensus. Please stop. oknazevad (talk) 14:54, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tan in human culture / parapsychology[edit]

It can be argued that parapsychology can be legitimately included as a part of human culture; however, considering that this is a pseduo-scientific field where most claims can be disregarded entirely, and that the area of colors is not one with a more than trivial cultural impact, I would vote against it. If it is included, a formulation should be used that clearly indicates that we merely have a cultural reference, not a potentially valid claim. In addition, going by the formulation and the one weak source, I suspect that the discussed claim is not a consensus view even within parapsychology.

I note that the overall awareness, cultural impact, and consensus on e.g. star signs and the associated (but still arbitrary and scientifically unsupported) characteristics is far greater (in the Western world) and that the case for including discussions of colors and parapsychology is far weaker than for star signs (in the respectively relevant articles).

The above obviously applies to any other color-related articles. 80.226.24.6 (talk) 12:43, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Shade of black people"[edit]

I believe this page was hacked, in the info box specifically. It lists "shades of shades of black people" on the bottom and it lists "skin color, loafer" in the middle. I hope you can fix it. Thanks. 24.113.51.121 (talk) 21:53, 11 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Reverted the vandalism. Thanks for pointing it out. oknazevad (talk) 00:11, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dark tan[edit]

Dark tan is not the main entry in the info box about tan, it is simply listed as a variation, with no sourcing for the attributes and no text discussion of the color.

If it is a real color, it deserves more discussion.

I don't plan to edit this article as my current focus is on the color lists articles (e.g. List_of_colors:_A–F). I do plan to remove this entry from that list, but if someone does some research and can can find evidence that there is a color by this name, it can be restored.--S Philbrick (Talk) 00:26, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]