The Hummingbird watercolor color palette
This soft, airy palette is anchored by Light Taupe (#FBF5F1), the dominant wash across the hummingbird set. Pale Orange and Light Teal carry the midtones, and Deep Teal (#12615C) 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 3866 (Mocha Brn Ult Vy Lt), DMC 739 (Tan Ult Vy Lt), DMC 3808 (Turquoise Ult Vy Dk), DMC 3756 (Baby Blue Ult Vy Lt). For marker and Copic work, reach for Copic E0000 (Floral White), Copic E31 (Brick Beige), Copic BG78 (Bronze), Copic G00 (Jade Green). 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 taupe-100, orange-100, teal-800, teal-50, taupe-300 — or copy the raw HEX, RGB and HSL above, or grab the ready-made CSS custom properties from the sidebar. For accessibility, Light Taupe on Deep Teal reaches 6.7:1, comfortably passing WCAG AA for body text. These colors are extracted straight from our free Hummingbird watercolor clipart — download the transparent-background PNGs to pair the artwork with its own palette.