Sage green color palettes
Six sage schemes, five colors each, every hex copyable in one click.
Sage is a green desaturated far enough toward gray that it behaves like a neutral: which is exactly why it became the default for a decade of packaging and interiors, and why it is so easy to use badly. Pushed a few points too gray it stops reading as green at all; pushed a few points too saturated it becomes olive, which is a different mood entirely. The working range sits roughly between #9CAF88 and #B5C4A4.
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Sage and clay
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Herb garden
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Linen and sage
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Eucalyptus
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Sage and terracotta
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Dried herb
Sage's problem is that it is quiet enough to disappear, so the pairing matters more than the sage itself. Warm it with terracotta, clay or a soft ochre and it reads as considered and organic. Cool it with white and pale gray and it reads as clinical: fine for a medical or wellness product, wrong for a craft one. Do not pair it with another desaturated mid-tone at similar lightness; two quiet colors next to each other produce a page with no focal point at all. And as with any mid-tone, sage is a surface, not a text color: take the darkest row entry for type.
Other palettes.
Same format, different mood. Every hex on every one of them copies in a click.
- Fall color palettes Rust, ochre and oxblood, each row anchored by one genuinely dark brown.
- Winter color palettes Two families that behave nothing alike: quiet blue-grays, and forward jewel tones.
- Spring color palettes Fresh greens and blossom pinks, kept from going saccharine by one dark leaf green.
- Summer color palettes Sea blues, sun yellows and coral, with a deep blue doing the structural work.
- Pastel color palettes Soft schemes that each break the pastel rule once, because five pastels have no hierarchy.
- Neutral color palettes Warm and cool neutrals. Not gray: every color carries the same faint hue bias.
All thirteen palette collections · Pull a palette out of an image · Check a pair for contrast
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