Northern Cardinal Watercolor Palette

The signature watercolor palette pulled from our free Northern Cardinal clipart — 5 hand-matched colors led by Deep Orange (#DC5636) and Light Red. 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 Orange— Dominant wash

Light Red— Midtone accent

Deep Red— Shadow & outline tone

Light Orange— Highlight

Muted Orange— Midtone accent

The Northern Cardinal watercolor color palette

This soft, airy palette is anchored by Deep Orange (#DC5636), the dominant wash across the northern cardinal set. Light Red and Light Orange carry the midtones, and Deep Red (#B6301C) 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 720 (Orange Spice Dark), DMC 947 (Burnt Orange), DMC 347 (Salmon Very Dark), DMC 543 (Beige Brown Ult Vy Lt). For marker and Copic work, reach for Copic E09 (Burnt Sienna), Copic R17 (Lipstick Orange), Copic E19 (Redwood), Copic E11 (Bareley Beige). 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-600, red-400, red-700, orange-100, orange-200 — 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 Red reaches 4.8:1, comfortably passing WCAG AA for body text. These colors are extracted straight from our free Northern Cardinal watercolor clipart — download the transparent-background PNGs to pair the artwork with its own palette.