Sage Green Color Palette

Sage green is a soft, muted green with a grey cast, named after the herb. #9CAF88 is only 20% saturated, and that restraint is what separates it from a leaf green. Copy the HEX codes from any scheme below, or generate a fresh sage palette anchored to your own base colour.

Sage Green Palette Ideas & HEX Codes

Soft Sage is the greyest set, nothing above 21% saturation, and drifts warm at #B2AC88 and #DAD7CD. Sage & Cream adds real green with #588157 and #3A5A40, plus the cream tones that make it a complete scheme. Muted Sage is the only one with warm clay in it, #CB997E and #DDBEA9.

Soft Sage

#9CAF88
#B2AC88
#DAD7CD
#7C8471
#5A6650

Sage & Cream

#A3B18A
#588157
#3A5A40
#DAD7CD
#EAE7DC

Muted Sage

#B7B7A4
#A5A58D
#6B705C
#CB997E
#DDBEA9

Anchored to a sage green base — press Space or Generate to roll more schemes. Click a swatch to copy its HEX, lock one to keep it while the rest re-roll, then export as CSS, JSON or HEX.

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Drag in the colour area or the hue bar, or type a HEX / RGB value, then build a scheme anchored to it.

What Goes With Sage Green

Sage is a near-neutral, so it behaves more like a warm grey than a green — which is why it pairs with almost anything muted: cream and beige for the ground, dusty rose or clay for the accent, a deep forest green for text. Weddings, skincare, interiors and calm brand systems use it more than any other green.

Frequently Asked Questions

What HEX codes make a sage green palette?
Sage green sits between green and grey — try #9CAF88 as the hero, with #B2AC88 and #A3B18A as companions, a deeper #5A6650 or #3A5A40 for contrast, and warm neutrals like #DAD7CD or #DDBEA9 to balance it. The muted, slightly grey saturation is what separates sage from a pure green. The three sets above are worked examples of that: Soft Sage, Sage & Cream and Muted Sage, five codes each. The deepest value on this page is #3A5A40 and the palest is #EAE7DC; put one on the other and you get 6.2:1, past the 4.5:1 WCAG AA minimum for body text.
Is sage green warm or cool?
Warm, for a green. #9CAF88 sits at 89° hue — the yellow side of green rather than the blue side — and the Muted Sage set below proves the point by pairing it with clay tones like #CB997E without a clash. A cool green such as mint, #74C69D at 150°, would fight those same neutrals.
How do I use these colours in CSS?
Click Copy CSS for a ready-to-paste :root block with each colour as a custom property (--color-1, --color-2 and so on), or copy a single HEX straight from any swatch above. The Sage & Cream row above is a second ready-made option — #A3B18A, #EAE7DC and the three steps between them — if you would rather not generate at all. The generator itself rolls around #9CAF88, the base sage green for this page. Use Copy JSON for an array or Copy HEX for a comma-separated line if custom properties are not how your project stores colour.
Which sage green shade should I use as a background?
For a page or card background take the lightest step in the set — #EAE7DC on this page. Black text on #EAE7DC comes to 16.9:1, well past the 4.5:1 WCAG AA line. For a dark surface use #3A5A40 instead, the deepest code here, where white text gives 7.7:1. The mid steps are better spent on borders, chart fills and hover states, where nothing has to be read at 14px.

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