The internet’s favorite cow, drawn for the grid: a shaggy highland portrait with its fringe flopped over one eye, horns sweeping wide, and a scatter of daisies and thistles at its chin. The coat is where this design earns its keep. Real highland fur is thousands of fine strands — unchartable — so here every lock is redrawn as a thick, wavy band of three stepped gingers. The result places like a rhythm: russet, amber, cream, repeat, each lock a satisfying little unit, and the finished coat looks windblown rather than noisy. The horns’ pale arcs and the black nose give the face instant structure, and the single visible eye — ringed dark, one highlight drill — carries all the personality highland cows are famous for. Sage greens keep the meadow background flat and quiet so the cow owns the canvas. At 40×40 cm this is a statement piece for farmhouse walls and the set’s most-requested subject by search volume.
The chart, measured
Every number on this page is read from this design’s actual manufacturing chart — the same
file the 141×141 symbol canvas is printed from — not estimated for marketing.
| Spec |
Value |
| Canvas |
40 × 40 cm (15.7″ × 15.7″) |
| Grid |
141 × 141 cells |
| Drills |
19,881 round drills (2.8 mm), full-drill coverage |
| Colors |
16 DMC colors, individually bagged |
16 DMC colors over 19,881 drills is a mid-complexity build — enough palette changes to stay interesting, not enough to feel like admin. The workload skews orange: 4 of the 16 colors are orange steps, covering 30% of the canvas, with DMC 644 alone accounting for 18% (3,512 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 644 |
yellow |
3,512 |
17.7% |
| DMC 920 |
orange |
3,230 |
16.2% |
| DMC 523 |
green |
2,436 |
12.3% |
| DMC 922 |
orange |
1,969 |
9.9% |
| DMC 502 |
green |
1,662 |
8.4% |
| DMC 3777 |
red |
1,343 |
6.8% |
| DMC 500 |
deep green |
1,196 |
6.0% |
| DMC 154 |
deep red |
1,176 |
5.9% |
| DMC 815 |
red |
1,142 |
5.7% |
| DMC 987 |
green |
525 |
2.6% |
| DMC 3774 |
pale orange |
431 |
2.2% |
| DMC 318 |
gray |
339 |
1.7% |
| DMC 3064 |
orange |
317 |
1.6% |
| DMC 3837 |
violet |
290 |
1.5% |
| DMC 3756 |
pale teal |
268 |
1.3% |
| DMC 3821 |
yellow |
45 |
0.2% |
Chart-true by construction
The mockup above is rendered drill-by-drill from the finished chart (19,881 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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