Sage Green Color Codes

Sage Green is a mid-tone, desaturated orange with the hex code #887766, RGB values of 136, 119, 102 and an HSL value of hsl(30, 14%, 47%).

HEX	#887766
RGB	136, 119, 102
HSL	hsl(30, 14%, 47%)
HSV	30°, 25%, 53%
CMYK	0%, 13%, 25%, 47%
LAB	51.14, 3.73, 11.77
CIELCHuv	51.14, 18.64, 51.65°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 404 C ΔE 2.4 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: gray ΔE 12.6

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Sage Green Color Hex Code

The Sage Green color hex code is #887766. Those six digits are three pairs, 88 for red, 77 for green and 66 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#887766

Sage Green Color RGB Code

The Sage Green RGB code is rgb(136, 119, 102). Red carries the most light at 136 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(136, 119, 102)

Sage Green Color HSV Code

The Sage Green HSV code is 30°, 25%, 53%. Read it as a hue of 30 degrees, 25% saturation and 53% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

30°, 25%, 53%

Sage Green Color CIELChuv Code

The Sage Green CIELCHuv code is 51.14, 18.64, 51.65°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 51 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 19 is how far it sits from grey.

51.14, 18.64, 51.65°

Tonal scale

What are Sage Green Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Sage Green Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #887766. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #667788, a mid-tone, desaturated azure blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

#886666 and #888866 sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.

Triadic

#668877 and #776688 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #668888 and #666688. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #667788, and #668866 with #886688. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

4.31:1

4.31

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Black background

4.88:1

4.88

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Against white Sage Green reaches 4.31:1, enough for large text and UI borders, but short of the 4.5:1 that body copy needs. Darken it for anything set small. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 4.88:1. With very little saturation it behaves as a neutral, which makes it a good background or a supporting tone alongside a stronger accent.

Check Sage Green against another color →

Color vision

How Sage Green looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#81816A

Sage Green shifts slightly here. ΔE 8.3

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#82836B

Sage Green shifts slightly here. ΔE 9.0

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#876E6E

Sage Green shifts noticeably here. ΔE 10.4

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#7A7A7A

Sage Green shifts noticeably here. ΔE 12.4

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Sage Green reads as #82836B. That is a shift of ΔE 9.0, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 10.4. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Sage Green in code

:root {
  --sage-green: #887766;
}

.example {
  color: var(--sage-green);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'sage-green': '#887766',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let sageGreen = Color(
    red: 0.533,
    green: 0.467,
    blue: 0.400
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="sage_green">#887766</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const sageGreen = Color(0xFF887766);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Sage Green Color?

Sage Green reads as calm and the outdoors. It is muted enough to work as a background rather than a signal, and at 14% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 51 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Sage Green Color?

The closest CSS keyword is Gray (#808080), though it is not a match: Delta-E 12.6 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 404 C at #827566. The name Sage Green comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Sage Green Color Made?

On a screen Sage Green is made by additive light: 136 red, 119 green and 102 blue out of 255, with red leading and 102 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 13%, 25%, 47%. Starting from the pure hue at 30 degrees, Sage Green is a tone, so it is that hue knocked back with grey.