Sage green

Where it sits

Soft Autumn palette

Sage green is an anchor color in Soft Autumn. The nearest color on the same side of the warm–cool line is Warm grey #A79E92, a Bright Spring color, at a distance of 13: close enough to mistake for it on a hanger, far enough to tell apart on a person.

Sage has had a decade on the shop floor, so the name has stretched. It gets applied to mint, to pale olive, to grey with a green cast. The Soft Autumn sage is the one with a little yellow in it. Hold the garment against a sheet of white paper. If it looks warm, like dried herbs, it is this. If it looks cool, like sea glass, it is eucalyptus and belongs to Soft Summer.

On a Soft Autumn it behaves as a neutral more than an accent. It sits beside camel, warm taupe and mushroom as if it were one of them, and it is close enough in value to all three that an outfit in sage and camel reads as one color in two moods. That is the point of this palette.

The twelve-point gap to eucalyptus is small, and both Soft seasons borrow across it all the time. Soft Summer in this sage looks a little warmed; Soft Autumn in eucalyptus looks a little cooled. Neither is a mistake. The difference shows most at the neck.

Easily confused with

Eucalyptus, #8FA394, is the cool twin and the one most people mean when they say sage. Warm taupe in the same palette is eleven points away and is what sage turns into when the green drains out. If a sage garment looks grey indoors, it is probably taupe, and still Soft Autumn.

The nearest named colors in other seasons, by perceptual distance (ΔE in CIELAB; under 10 is hard to tell apart on a screen, over 25 is a different color).

In stock in this color today

As of November 11, 2026, 15 in-stock pieces across Marine Layer, STAUD and Frank & Eileen sample within a close match of #9CA07E. The dot on each card is the color we sampled from the garment itself; trust it over the photograph. Links are affiliate links: we earn a commission when you buy through them, at no cost to you.

Allison Twill Trouser

Olive

$118 at Marine Layer

Lexi Pointelle Scoop Tee

Olive

$40 at Marine Layer

Limerick 31"

Olive

$348 at Frank & Eileen

Mina Pointelle Sweater

Sage

$100 at Marine Layer

Roxana Top

Teak

$595 at STAUD

Evelyn Silk Dress

Still Life

$995 at STAUD

Lynn Knit Resort Shirt

Sage

$100 at Marine Layer

Cali Double Cloth Pant

Sage

$85 at Marine Layer

Lexi Pointelle Long Sleeve Crew Tee

Olive

$46 at Marine Layer

Georgia Double Cloth Barrel Pant

Sage

$92 at Marine Layer

Olivia Cropped Trench

Sage

$135 at Marine Layer

Jane Relaxed Double Cloth Shirt

Sea Spray

$108 at Marine Layer

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What it's sold as

Retailers almost never use the palette name. These are the color names on the in-stock pieces that sample within a close match of #9CA07E today, so they are the words to search for.

Marine Layer

Olive, Sage, Sea Spray, Faded Olive

STAUD

Teak, Still Life

Frank & Eileen

Olive

A retailer's name for a color says nothing about its undertone. "Navy" at one shop is a True Winter color and at another a Spring one. The sampled dot on each card above is what we trust.

Questions

The Soft Autumn guide · All in-stock Soft Autumn pieces · ← Camel · Dusty terracotta → · All colors