Color Names

Bitter Sage

Dusty, faded sage, its wisdom soured like old leaves.

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Bitter Sage is a cool grey, close to green.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Bitter Sage

Sage (color)

Sage is a grey-green resembling that of dried sage leaves. As a quaternary color, it is an equal mix of the tertiary colors citron and slate. The hex RGB color value of the adjacent sage swatch is BCB88A. For decades, some military flight jackets were made in sage green.

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bitter

Adjective

  1. Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
  2. Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.

Adverb

  1. To an intense or severe degree; bitterly.
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sage

Adjective

  1. Wise.
  2. Grave; serious; solemn.

Noun

  1. A very wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
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