The Dolphin watercolor color palette
This soft, airy palette is anchored by Light Indigo (#B0C5EA), the dominant wash across the dolphin set. Light Blue and Pale Slate carry the midtones, and Deep Blue (#4A75D2) 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 3840 (Lavender Blue Light), DMC 3841 (Baby Blue Pale), DMC B5200 (Snow White), DMC 799 (Delft Blue Medium). For marker and Copic work, reach for Copic B63 (Light Hydrangea), Copic BV20 (Dull Lavender), Copic V0000 (Rose Quartz), Copic BV04 (Blue Berry). 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 indigo-200, blue-100, slate-50, blue-400, blue-500 — or copy the raw HEX, RGB and HSL above, or grab the ready-made CSS custom properties from the sidebar. For accessibility, Pale Slate on Deep Blue reaches 4.2:1, best reserved for large text or decorative use. These colors are extracted straight from our free Dolphin watercolor clipart — download the transparent-background PNGs to pair the artwork with its own palette.