Sage Green (#9CAF88) is a light, muted green hue. Sage is a calm grey-green that dominated interiors and weddings in the 2020s.
In RGB it is made of 156 red, 175 green and 136 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 89° with 20% saturation and 61% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 73% with a chroma of 0.059. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 11% cyan, 0% magenta, 22% yellow and 31% black.
As a text color on white, Sage Green has a contrast ratio of 2.36:1, which fails WCAG AA even for large text. On black it reaches 8.9:1 and passes AA for normal text. If you use Sage Green as a background, put black (or very dark) text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 57 for black text and Lc -51 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #B29EC4, close to lilac. Colors that look most similar are sand, khaki, pistachio. It looks fairly similar to people with red-green color blindness (ΔE 3), so its meaning mostly survives.