Black-capped Chickadee Watercolor Palette

The signature watercolor palette pulled from our free Black-capped Chickadee clipart — 7 hand-matched colors led by Pale Olive (#EFEAE0) and Soft Orange. Every shade carries HEX, RGB, HSL, Tailwind and CSS-variable values plus its nearest DMC embroidery floss and Copic marker.

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Pale Olive— Dominant wash

Soft Orange— Midtone accent

Deep Ash— Shadow & outline tone

Deep Stone— Midtone accent

Dusky Stone— Midtone accent

Light Stone— Midtone accent

Soft Stone— Midtone accent

The Black-capped Chickadee watercolor color palette

This balanced, painterly palette is anchored by Pale Olive (#EFEAE0), the dominant wash across the black-capped chickadee set. Soft Orange and Deep Stone carry the midtones, and Deep Ash (#212121) grounds the shadows and outline work. Together they capture the soft, layered look of the original hand-painted artwork — copy any value below, or export the whole set as CSS variables, an Adobe ASE, GIMP or Procreate swatch file.

Cross-stitch & marker conversions

Because UsefulPix is built for crafters, every color is already matched to the nearest physical thread and marker, so you can take this palette off-screen. For embroidery and cross-stitch, the closest DMC floss are DMC Ecru (Ecru), DMC 3046 (Yellow Beige Md), DMC 310 (Black), DMC 3799 (Pewter Gray Vy Dk). For marker and Copic work, reach for Copic E40 (Brick White), Copic E35 (Chamois), Copic N-10 (Neutral Gray No.10), Copic T-9 (Toner Gray No.9). These are perceptual nearest-matches (CIEDE2000), so treat them as a faithful starting point and check a physical shade card for critical work.

Using these colors in web & print

On the web, the nearest Tailwind CSS classes are olive-200, orange-200, neutral-800, stone-700, stone-600 — or copy the raw HEX, RGB and HSL above, or grab the ready-made CSS custom properties from the sidebar. For accessibility, Pale Olive on Deep Ash reaches 13.4:1, comfortably passing WCAG AA for body text. These colors are extracted straight from our free Black-capped Chickadee watercolor clipart — download the transparent-background PNGs to pair the artwork with its own palette.