Watercolor Birds Palette

The signature watercolor palette pulled from our free Watercolor Birds clipart — 8 hand-matched colors led by Deep Ash (#0C0C0D) and Pale Purple. Every shade carries HEX, RGB, HSL, Tailwind and CSS-variable values plus its nearest DMC embroidery floss and Copic marker.

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#0C0C0D

#F3EFF8

#4D3E36

#C8BFB9

#164581

#2E180A

#BBC8E1

#F28A15

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Deep Ash— Dominant wash

Pale Purple— Highlight

Deep Taupe— Midtone accent

Light Taupe— Midtone accent

Dark Blue— Midtone accent

Deep Yellow— Midtone accent

Soft Slate— Midtone accent

Orange— Midtone accent

The Watercolor Birds watercolor color palette

This balanced, painterly palette is anchored by Deep Ash (#0C0C0D), the dominant wash across the watercolor birds set. Pale Purple and Deep Taupe carry the midtones, and Deep Yellow (#2E180A) 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 310 (Black), DMC 762 (Pearl Gray Vy Lt), DMC 3031 (Mocha Brown Vy Dk), DMC 648 (Beaver Gray Lt). For marker and Copic work, reach for Copic 110 (Special Black), Copic V0000 (Rose Quartz), Copic E89 (Pecan), Copic T-4 (Toner Gray No.4). 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 neutral-950, purple-50, taupe-700, taupe-300, blue-900 — or copy the raw HEX, RGB and HSL above, or grab the ready-made CSS custom properties from the sidebar. For accessibility, Pale Purple on Deep Ash reaches 17.2:1, comfortably passing WCAG AA for body text. These colors are extracted straight from our free Watercolor Birds watercolor clipart — download the transparent-background PNGs to pair the artwork with its own palette.