A male cardinal owns a snowy pine branch the way cardinals do — chest out, crest up, unbothered by winter. The design is built around the one color story everyone knows: that impossible red against snow. The body steps through three reds (shadow crimson, true cardinal, bright cap) so the bird rounds out instead of sitting flat, while the black mask and orange beak — maybe forty drills between them — snap the face into instant recognizability. Snow loads the branch in white with pale blue shadows, and oversized flakes drift through the muted background, each one a tidy little cluster you place like punctuation. Cardinals carry meaning for a lot of households — the visitor-from-a-loved-one folklore makes this a common memorial gift — and the design keeps that dignity: no cartooning, just a good bird on a cold day. Winter-mantel natural, but red enough to hold a wall in July.
The chart, measured
Every number on this page is read from this design’s actual manufacturing chart — the same
file the 106×106 symbol canvas is printed from — not estimated for marketing.
| Spec |
Value |
| Canvas |
30 × 30 cm (11.8″ × 11.8″) |
| Grid |
106 × 106 cells |
| Drills |
11,236 round drills (2.8 mm), full-drill coverage |
| Colors |
16 DMC colors, individually bagged |
16 DMC colors over 11,236 drills is a mid-complexity build — enough palette changes to stay interesting, not enough to feel like admin. The workload skews teal: 3 of the 16 colors are teal steps, covering 50% of the canvas, with DMC 931 alone accounting for 27% (3,002 drills). Only 1 color dips under 1% coverage, so nearly every bag in the tray gets real use.
Full DMC palette (16 colors)
Your chart doubles as a shopping list — the complete palette with exact per-color counts:
| DMC code |
Hue |
Drills |
Canvas share |
| DMC 931 |
teal |
3,002 |
26.7% |
| DMC 932 |
teal |
1,966 |
17.5% |
| DMC 160 |
blue |
1,073 |
9.5% |
| DMC 606 |
red |
715 |
6.4% |
| DMC 775 |
pale teal |
635 |
5.7% |
| DMC 902 |
red |
593 |
5.3% |
| DMC 498 |
red |
484 |
4.3% |
| DMC 799 |
blue |
436 |
3.9% |
| DMC 3371 |
deep yellow |
429 |
3.8% |
| DMC 3325 |
pale blue |
393 |
3.5% |
| DMC 827 |
pale blue |
363 |
3.2% |
| DMC 817 |
red |
348 |
3.1% |
| DMC 520 |
green |
327 |
2.9% |
| DMC 500 |
deep green |
264 |
2.3% |
| DMC 610 |
yellow |
189 |
1.7% |
| DMC 721 |
orange |
19 |
0.2% |
Chart-true by construction
The mockup above is rendered drill-by-drill from the finished chart (11,236 cells,
16 colors — the exact numbers in the tables), using the deterministic pipeline
that processes every Pixelmade order: saliency-weighted DMC selection, nearest-color
mapping, no dithering. What you approve is what gets printed. Each kit is made to order —
printed, picked, and packed when you buy, MOQ 1.
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