Sage and White color palette
darkseagreen · 0.036
white · 0
Walk into a quiet bathroom with white tile, white linen, and a single sage hand towel on the counter, and you have the feeling of this pairing. White does most of the work. Sage (#9CAF88) is a soft, dusty green that reads almost like a tinted neutral against it.
is low at 2.36 to 1, so this is tonal rather than bold. Sage sits well below white in lightness but stays gentle, so the two feel like one calm surface. It suits airy, plant-adjacent interiors and wellness, skincare, or home goods branding. Use darker text for body copy, since sage on white alone is too faint to read.
See Sage and White in use
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Sage Tailwind scale (50-900)
White Tailwind scale (50-900)
Sage to White blend
A continuous interpolation from Sage to White, sampled into the 10 steps below. Tap any swatch to copy its hex.
Why Sage and White blend best in OKLab
The same two colors blended three ways. This site uses OKLab, which keeps the blend smooth and evenly lit. The other two are shown so you can see what to avoid: sRGB darkens and muddies the middle, and HSL detours through colors that are not in your palette.
Accessibility
Do not place Sage text on White (or the reverse) for body copy. For readable text, pair a dark scale step such as sage-800 or white-900 with a light one like white-50.
Contrast pairing grid
Rows are Sage steps, columns are White steps. Each mark is a Sage step shown on a White step: a check means it clears WCAG AA for text (4.5:1). If you can read the mark, the pairing is legible.
| 50 | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900 | |
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| 100 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| 500 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| 600 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 700 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 800 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 900 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
✓ passes AA ✗ fails AA
Copy for Tailwind
Tailwind v4 — @theme (paste into your CSS)
@theme {
--color-sage-50: #F9FAF8;
--color-sage-100: #F3F5F0;
--color-sage-200: #E9EDE4;
--color-sage-300: #DAE2D3;
--color-sage-400: #C7D3BD;
--color-sage-500: #9CAF88;
--color-sage-600: #7F8F6E;
--color-sage-700: #5F6B52;
--color-sage-800: #363D2E;
--color-sage-900: #151811;
--color-white-50: #FFFFFF;
--color-white-100: #FFFFFF;
--color-white-200: #FFFFFF;
--color-white-300: #FFFFFF;
--color-white-400: #FFFFFF;
--color-white-500: #FFFFFF;
--color-white-600: #D1D1D1;
--color-white-700: #9E9E9E;
--color-white-800: #5D5D5D;
--color-white-900: #292929;
}
Tailwind v3 — tailwind.config.js
// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'sage': {
50: '#F9FAF8',
100: '#F3F5F0',
200: '#E9EDE4',
300: '#DAE2D3',
400: '#C7D3BD',
500: '#9CAF88',
600: '#7F8F6E',
700: '#5F6B52',
800: '#363D2E',
900: '#151811',
},
'white': {
50: '#FFFFFF',
100: '#FFFFFF',
200: '#FFFFFF',
300: '#FFFFFF',
400: '#FFFFFF',
500: '#FFFFFF',
600: '#D1D1D1',
700: '#9E9E9E',
800: '#5D5D5D',
900: '#292929',
},
},
},
},
};
CSS variables
:root {
--sage-50: #F9FAF8;
--sage-100: #F3F5F0;
--sage-200: #E9EDE4;
--sage-300: #DAE2D3;
--sage-400: #C7D3BD;
--sage-500: #9CAF88;
--sage-600: #7F8F6E;
--sage-700: #5F6B52;
--sage-800: #363D2E;
--sage-900: #151811;
--white-50: #FFFFFF;
--white-100: #FFFFFF;
--white-200: #FFFFFF;
--white-300: #FFFFFF;
--white-400: #FFFFFF;
--white-500: #FFFFFF;
--white-600: #D1D1D1;
--white-700: #9E9E9E;
--white-800: #5D5D5D;
--white-900: #292929;
}SCSS variables
$sage-50: #F9FAF8; $sage-100: #F3F5F0; $sage-200: #E9EDE4; $sage-300: #DAE2D3; $sage-400: #C7D3BD; $sage-500: #9CAF88; $sage-600: #7F8F6E; $sage-700: #5F6B52; $sage-800: #363D2E; $sage-900: #151811; $white-50: #FFFFFF; $white-100: #FFFFFF; $white-200: #FFFFFF; $white-300: #FFFFFF; $white-400: #FFFFFF; $white-500: #FFFFFF; $white-600: #D1D1D1; $white-700: #9E9E9E; $white-800: #5D5D5D; $white-900: #292929;
JSON tokens
{
"sage": {
"50": "#F9FAF8",
"100": "#F3F5F0",
"200": "#E9EDE4",
"300": "#DAE2D3",
"400": "#C7D3BD",
"500": "#9CAF88",
"600": "#7F8F6E",
"700": "#5F6B52",
"800": "#363D2E",
"900": "#151811"
},
"white": {
"50": "#FFFFFF",
"100": "#FFFFFF",
"200": "#FFFFFF",
"300": "#FFFFFF",
"400": "#FFFFFF",
"500": "#FFFFFF",
"600": "#D1D1D1",
"700": "#9E9E9E",
"800": "#5D5D5D",
"900": "#292929"
}
}How we name colors
There is no single official authority for naming colors. We use the common, widely recognized name as the primary label for each color (here, Sage and White); many common names are themselves W3C CSS named colors. For transparency we also show the nearest W3C CSS named color and the perceptual distance, ΔE, measured in OKLab. A small ΔE means the name is essentially exact; a larger one means it is the closest standard name rather than a perfect match.
Sources: W3C CSS Color Module Level 4 and the open color-name-list dataset, used to verify every color sits near a recognized name.