Kelp Watercolor Palette

The signature watercolor palette pulled from our free Kelp clipart — 8 hand-matched colors led by Deep Amber (#CDC67C) and Muted Yellow. Every shade carries HEX, RGB, HSL, Tailwind and CSS-variable values plus its nearest DMC embroidery floss and Copic marker.

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Deep Amber— Dominant wash

Muted Yellow— Midtone accent

Light Amber— Highlight

Muted Amber— Midtone accent

Deep Olive— Shadow & outline tone

Light Olive— Midtone accent

Light Yellow— Midtone accent

Deep Yellow— Midtone accent

The Kelp watercolor color palette

This balanced, painterly palette is anchored by Deep Amber (#CDC67C), the dominant wash across the kelp set. Muted Yellow and Light Amber carry the midtones, and Deep Olive (#605B2B) 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 734 (Olive Green Lt), DMC 733 (Olive Green Md), DMC 677 (Old Gold Vy Lt), DMC 3821 (Straw). For marker and Copic work, reach for Copic YG95 (Pale Olive), Copic YG97 (Spanish Olive), Copic E81 (Ivory), Copic Y38 (Honey). 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 amber-200, yellow-500, amber-100, amber-300, olive-600 — or copy the raw HEX, RGB and HSL above, or grab the ready-made CSS custom properties from the sidebar. For accessibility, Light Amber on Deep Olive reaches 5.9:1, comfortably passing WCAG AA for body text. These colors are extracted straight from our free Kelp watercolor clipart — download the transparent-background PNGs to pair the artwork with its own palette.