Sage color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around sage. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Sage is #B2AC88, light muted yellow. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and sage color palettes to copy.

Sage hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#B2AC88

HEX: #B2AC88
RGB: rgb(178, 172, 136)
HSL: hsl(51, 21%, 62%)
OKLCH: oklch(74.0% 0.050 99.6)
On white: 2.30:1
On black: 9.15:1

Shades of sage

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Sage color values

#B2AC88rgb(178, 172, 136)

Color spaces of #b2ac88
RGB	178	172	136
HSL	51°	21%	62%
HSV	51°	24%	70%
CMYK	0.00	0.03	0.24	0.30
XYZ	37.5565	40.7483	29.1745
Yxy	40.7483	0.3494	0.3791
CIE-Lab	69.9992	-3.7822	19.3373
Hunter Lab	63.8344	-6.6908	17.5864
OKLCH	74.0%	0.050	99.6°

#B2AC88 is 178 red, 172 green and 136 blue. No single channel dominates it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #999999.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	10110010	10101100	10001000
Octal	262	254	210
Decimal	178	172	136
Hex	B2	AC	88

#b2ac88 mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#B2AC88
#A09A7A
#8E896C
#7C785F
#6A6751
#595644
#474436
#353328
#23221B
#11110D
#000000

#b2ac88 mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#B2AC88
#B9B493
#C1BC9F
#C9C4AB
#D0CDB7
#D8D5C3
#E0DDCF
#E7E6DB
#EFEEE7
#F7F6F3
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red36.6%
Green35.4%
Blue28.0%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#B2AC88
#A4A8CB

Triadic

#B2AC88
#88B3C1
#C19FB5

Analogous

#B2AC88
#A1B291
#C0A689

Monochromatic

#494322
#6A6443
#8D8764
#B2AC88
#D8D2AD
#FFFAD9
#FFFAD9

#b2ac88 on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 9.15:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 2.30:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #b2ac88

color: #b2ac88;
background-color: #b2ac88;
border: 3px solid #b2ac88;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #b2ac88;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(178, 172, 136, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(74.0% 0.050 99.6);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Sage on white measures 2.30:1 and on black 9.15:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.24:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

Related colors: forest green, pine, moss, juniper. See every shade on the colors index.

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