What a tan screen is used for
- Warm, neutral backgrounds for photography
- Low-glare ambient light with an earth tone
- Design reference for natural palettes
Tan screen online: #D2B48C at full screen
Tan is #D2B48C — all three channels present, weighted towards red and green. It is much closer to what most people picture when they hear the word brown than the CSS colour named brown, which is a dark red.
As a background it is genuinely useful: warm, muted and low in contrast, so it sits behind a subject without competing. It is also close to average skin-tone luminance, which makes it a reasonable field for checking that a camera’s exposure is behaving.
How to get a full screen tan background
Press the fullscreen button on the player above, or the F key. Escape returns you to the page. On a desktop browser F11 does the same job and hides the browser's own toolbars as well.
The colour box is a control, not a picture: use the hex field to enter any value, pick another shade from the palette, or download the current colour as a PNG at your screen's resolution. Whatever you set is written into the address bar, so the link you copy reproduces exactly what you are looking at.