Pencil Watercolor Palette

The signature watercolor palette pulled from our free Pencil clipart — 8 hand-matched colors led by Light Orange (#F8CFA7) and Deep Orange. Every shade carries HEX, RGB, HSL, Tailwind and CSS-variable values plus its nearest DMC embroidery floss and Copic marker.

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Light Orange— Dominant wash

Deep Orange— Midtone accent

Light Amber— Midtone accent

Soft Amber— Midtone accent

Deep Amber— Shadow & outline tone

Dusky Amber— Midtone accent

Pale Yellow— Highlight

Lime— Midtone accent

The Pencil watercolor color palette

This soft, airy palette is anchored by Light Orange (#F8CFA7), the dominant wash across the pencil set. Deep Orange and Light Amber carry the midtones, and Deep Amber (#BE6A28) 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 3856 (Mahogany Ult Vy Lt), DMC 3853 (Autumn Gold Dk), DMC 745 (Yellow Pale Light), DMC 726 (Topaz Light). For marker and Copic work, reach for Copic E34 (Orientale), Copic YR65 (Atoll), Copic Y21 (Buttercup Yellow), Copic YR14 (Caramel). 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-200, orange-400, amber-100, amber-300, amber-600 — or copy the raw HEX, RGB and HSL above, or grab the ready-made CSS custom properties from the sidebar. For accessibility, Pale Yellow on Deep Amber reaches 3.8:1, best reserved for large text or decorative use. These colors are extracted straight from our free Pencil watercolor clipart — download the transparent-background PNGs to pair the artwork with its own palette.