Light Sage #BCECAC

About this color

#BCECAC is a light, moderately saturated green. In OKLCH its lightness is 89%, its chroma 0.099 and its hue 138°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Light Sage. Black text reads best on it, at 15.73:1.

Colors that go with Light Sage

Matches found by rotating Light Sage around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Light Sage

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Light Sage, closest first.

• Atoll Haven
• Powder Sky
• Pot Loggia
• Teal Release
• Sorrel Hedgerow
• Sunlit Pasture
• Gumdrop Treasure
• Chrome and Jukebox

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Light Sage, with their ΔE distance.

• Washed Out Green #BCF5A6 ΔE 0.028
• Light Grey Green #B7E1A1 ΔE 0.030
• Tea Green #CAE7B9 ΔE 0.031
• Light Mint Green #A6FBB2 ΔE 0.042
• Hospital Green #9BE5AA ΔE 0.043
• Celadon #BEFDB7 ΔE 0.044
• Light Pastel Green #B2FBA5 ΔE 0.045
• Light Mint #B6FFBB ΔE 0.048

More about Light Sage

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Light Sage

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts white
• 1 part yellow
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #CCEFA7, a difference of ΔE 0.022 from Light Sage. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Light Sage in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Light Sage

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 200.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F0F8ED

   oklch(97% 0.017 137)

2. Step 100

   100

   #DEF0D8

   oklch(93.5% 0.037 137.8)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #BCECAC

   oklch(89.4% 0.099 138)

4. Step 300

   300

   #97D482

   oklch(80.9% 0.127 138)

5. Step 400

   400

   #56BC25

   oklch(70.7% 0.203 138.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #42A300

   oklch(63.2% 0.195 138)

7. Step 600

   600

   #368900

   oklch(55.6% 0.172 138)

8. Step 700

   700

   #2C7300

   oklch(49.1% 0.152 138.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #235E00

   oklch(42.6% 0.131 138)

10. Step 900

    900

    #1C4F00

    oklch(37.8% 0.117 138)

11. Step 950

    950

    #0E2F00

    oklch(27% 0.083 137.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Light Sage with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.