The Mace watercolor color palette
This balanced, painterly palette is anchored by Light Slate (#EFF2F8), the dominant wash across the mace set. Soft Slate and Dusky Slate carry the midtones, and Deep Slate (#09111E) 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 762 (Pearl Gray Vy Lt), DMC 800 (Delft Blue Pale), DMC 820 (Royal Blue Very Dark), DMC 939 (Navy Blue Very Dark). For marker and Copic work, reach for Copic C-0 (Cool Gray No.0), Copic BV23 (Grayish Lavender), Copic BV29 (Slate), Copic C-10 (Cool Gray No.10). 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 slate-100, slate-300, slate-700, indigo-950, slate-950 — or copy the raw HEX, RGB and HSL above, or grab the ready-made CSS custom properties from the sidebar. For accessibility, Light Slate on Deep Slate reaches 16.9:1, comfortably passing WCAG AA for body text. These colors are extracted straight from our free Mace watercolor clipart — download the transparent-background PNGs to pair the artwork with its own palette.