The Cedar Waxwing watercolor color palette
This balanced, painterly palette is anchored by Light Orange (#EBCFA9), the dominant wash across the cedar waxwing set. Light Stone and Deep Orange carry the midtones, and Deep Stone (#201E1D) 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 738 (Tan Very Light), DMC 841 (Beige Brown Lt), DMC 728 (Topaz), DMC 839 (Beige Brown Dk). For marker and Copic work, reach for Copic E33 (Sand), Copic E84 (Khaki), Copic Y28 (Lionet Gold), Copic E89 (Pecan). 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 orange-200, stone-400, orange-300, taupe-600, yellow-700 — or copy the raw HEX, RGB and HSL above, or grab the ready-made CSS custom properties from the sidebar. For accessibility, Light Orange on Deep Stone reaches 11.1:1, comfortably passing WCAG AA for body text. These colors are extracted straight from our free Cedar Waxwing watercolor clipart — download the transparent-background PNGs to pair the artwork with its own palette.