The Danner 453 "dark tan" boots are the color of the light "tan" boots in the listings. The boots had a tongue tag that stated that the color was "dark tan" but this was evidently a problem at the factory in Vietnam as the color is the same as the "tan" boot and this is a very light color that is more of a pale yellow color like what one sees with leather work gloves than the brown color one expects to see in a boot.