How to Mix Tan in Acrylic

A warm, pale tan for sand, skin, and leather. This guide gives you the pigment ratios that land on #D2B48C in acrylic, using the same solver that powers the Chromilla mixer.

Target

Tan

#D2B48C

Mixed result

94% match

From these pigments

#D7B693

Pigment recipe

Ratios calibrated for acrylic. Start with the dominant pigment, add the modifiers in the order below, and adjust in 5% steps to your target swatch.

1. Titanium White
PW6
96%
2. Burnt Umber
PBr7
4%

What colours make Tan?

Titanium White and Burnt Umber, in roughly a 96:4 ratio.

How to make Tan in acrylic

Start with Titanium White at about 96% as your acrylic base, then work in Burnt Umber in the order above. Adjust in 5% steps until the swatch reads #D2B48C.

Why mix Tan instead of buying it

Mixing Tan yourself lets you approximate an expensive or hard to find tube from pigments you already own, match Tan across paint brands whose factory tubes differ, and rebuild the exact colour when you run out mid painting. The recipe above is the working starting point.

Common mistakes

White cools and chalks a mix as you add it, so tint in small steps and stop before it goes pastel.

Get this recipe for your paint brand

Open the live mixer with Tan + acrylic pre-loaded and calibrate to your tubes.

Open in mixer

Related mixing guides

Pigment mixing is subtractive, so small ratio changes matter. The mixer refines this recipe to your brand and updates on the fly.