This tabby sits square to the viewer the way real cats supervise a room: ears up, amber eyes locked on. The design leans into what makes tabbies chartable — the mackerel stripes are drawn as bold, separated bands rather than fine fur texture, so each stripe survives the grid as a clean run of drills instead of dissolving into speckle. The face carries the detail budget: darker outline drills ring the eyes and one bright highlight drill in each iris keeps the gaze alive from across the room. Warm gingers and browns dominate the palette, set against a calm teal backdrop that makes the orange pop without fighting it. It is a forgiving first portrait kit: large color regions through the body and background place quickly, and the payoff — a cat that actually looks back at you — lands in the final rows around the eyes and muzzle. If your own cat is the real subject you want, the same pipeline takes photo uploads at app.pixelmade.ai.
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 |
13 DMC colors, individually bagged |
13 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: 1 of the 13 colors are teal steps, covering 57% of the canvas, with DMC 931 alone accounting for 57% (6,382 drills). 5 accent colors each cover under 1% of the canvas — small bags that carry the highlights, so keep them sorted.
Full DMC palette (13 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 |
6,382 |
56.8% |
| DMC 939 |
deep blue |
1,238 |
11.0% |
| DMC 3853 |
orange |
969 |
8.6% |
| DMC 300 |
orange |
754 |
6.7% |
| DMC 739 |
pale yellow |
740 |
6.6% |
| DMC 3856 |
orange |
404 |
3.6% |
| DMC 434 |
orange |
386 |
3.4% |
| DMC 3858 |
orange |
220 |
2.0% |
| DMC 402 |
orange |
55 |
0.5% |
| DMC 703 |
green |
34 |
0.3% |
| DMC 986 |
green |
28 |
0.2% |
| DMC 702 |
green |
18 |
0.2% |
| DMC 164 |
green |
8 |
0.1% |
Chart-true by construction
The mockup above is rendered drill-by-drill from the finished chart (11,236 cells,
13 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.
For sellers
Run a craft or Etsy shop? Offer kits like this cat diamond art design — or your own artwork, or your
customers’ photos — under your brand with zero inventory via
app.pixelmade.ai. Preview how any image survives a
106-cell grid with the free
pixel art converter first.
