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rgb(188, 184, 138)
#BCB88A

Sage #BCB88A RGB Color Code

Sage (#BCB88A) is a muted, light yellow. In RGB it is made of 74% red, 72% green and 54% blue (R 188, G 184, B 138). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 55°, 27% saturation and 64% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.468, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 2% magenta, 27% yellow and 26% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Sage color codes

#BCB88A in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #BCB88A Valid CSS
RGB rgb(188, 184, 138) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(55, 27%, 64%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(55, 27%, 74%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(55 54% 26%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 2%, 27%, 26%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(77.43% 0.0621 103.58) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(77.43% -0.0146 0.0604) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(74.25% -3.99 24.01) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(74.25% 24.34 99.44) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.7345 0.7221 0.5608) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.4247 0.4681 0.3084) Valid CSS
Decimal 12368010 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.4681. Nearest web-safe color: #CCCC99.

Mix Sage with other colors

See what #BCB88A makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintSage and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightSage and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintSage and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalSage blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Sage in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

WhereCodeCopy
CSS variable--sage: #BCB88A;
Sass variable$sage: #BCB88A;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-sage: #BCB88A; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'sage': '#BCB88A' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.737, green: 0.722, blue: 0.541)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.737, green: 0.722, blue: 0.541, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="sage">#FFBCB88A</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFBCB88A)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #BCB88A (10.36:1, AAA). Here is how #BCB88A does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.03:1 on white
APCA Lc 39
Fails AATry #7C784D
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
10.36:1 on black
APCA Lc -63
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Sage

#BCB88A next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#BCB88A stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Sage

Named after a kitchen herb

Sage is a gray green named after the dried leaves of the sage plant, Salvia officinalis. Old color wheels for painters treated it as a mix of two mixed colors. In that system, sage is equal parts citron and slate. William J. Miskella used this kind of scheme in his 1928 handbook Practical Color Simplified.

Where #BCB88A comes from

The code is the swatch in the Wikipedia article on sage. It was worked out with a formula that turns a paint mix into screen colors. The article warns that these screen colors are much paler than real mixed paint, so sage paint is often darker. The New Zealand paint maker Resene sells its own Sage as #9EA587, which is grayer and a little darker.

Sage in shops

Apple sold its iPhone 17 in a color it called sage. For other soft greens, compare laurel green and asparagus.

Sage in a user interface

A sample app screen with #BCB88A as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #BCB88A as it is. On the light theme, #BCB88A is too hard to read as text (2.03:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #7C784D there (4.52:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Sage

These schemes turn the hue of #BCB88A around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#BCB88A#8A8EBC

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#BC9F8Athis#BCB88A#A7BC8A

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#BCB88A#8ABCB8#B88ABC

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#BCB88A#8AA7BC#9F8ABC

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#BCB88A#8EBC8A#8A8EBC#B88ABC

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#BCB88A#8ABC9F#8A8EBC#BC8AA7

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#413F25#767243#A7A265#C5C29A#E3E1CE

Gradients with Sage

Four CSS gradients made from #BCB88A. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #F1F1E7, #BCB88A);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #BCB88A, #323122);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #BC9F8A, #BCB88A, #A7BC8A);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #BCB88A, #A4BAA2, #8ABCB8);

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Shades, tints and tones of Sage

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Sage sits at step 300. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F9F8E7
  2. 100
    F0EED9
  3. 200
    DFDCBF
  4. 300
    BCB88A
  5. 400
    A9A57A
  6. 500
    8C885C
  7. 600
    726E43
  8. 700
    5B5730
  9. 800
    474423
  10. 900
    343119
  11. 950
    1F1D11

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #BCB88A in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1000 Green beige#CDBA88, very close (ΔE 2.6)Tailwind CSSstone-400 #A8A29E, close (ΔE 8.1)CSS color namestan #D2B48C, very close (ΔE 3.4)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of yellow or search the color library.