Octopus Watercolor Palette

The signature watercolor palette pulled from our free Octopus clipart — 8 hand-matched colors led by Light Red (#EFD2C3) and Muted 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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#EFD2C3

#F5B099

#C69B9D

#F3EDEF

#F17049

#B8B9C4

#614959

#885153

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Light Red— Dominant wash

Muted Red— Midtone accent

Deep Red— Midtone accent

Light Mauve— Highlight

Orange— Midtone accent

Muted Mauve— Midtone accent

Deep Mauve— Shadow & outline tone

Rose— Midtone accent

The Octopus watercolor color palette

This soft, airy palette is anchored by Light Red (#EFD2C3), the dominant wash across the octopus set. Muted Red and Deep Red carry the midtones, and Deep Mauve (#614959) 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 950 (Desert Sand Light), DMC 3341 (Apricot), DMC 3727 (Antique Mauve Light), DMC 762 (Pearl Gray Vy Lt). For marker and Copic work, reach for Copic YR61 (Yellowish Skin Pink), Copic R21 (Sardonyx), Copic RV63 (Begonia), Copic E50 (Egg Shell). 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 red-100, red-300, mauve-100, orange-600, mauve-300 — or copy the raw HEX, RGB and HSL above, or grab the ready-made CSS custom properties from the sidebar. For accessibility, Light Mauve on Deep Mauve reaches 7.0:1, comfortably passing WCAG AA for body text. These colors are extracted straight from our free Octopus watercolor clipart — download the transparent-background PNGs to pair the artwork with its own palette.