Crescent moon pixel art

A golden crescent moon with stars, the coloured companion to our black and white moon.

Preview of the finished crescent moon pixel art
How it looks finished (rendered from the chart)
Pattern details
Size16 × 16 pixels
Colours4 · hex colours
Total pixels106
DifficultyBeginner (1/5)
Finished size16 × 16 px
LicenceCC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit

Materials

ColourCodeNamePixelsShareAmount
#1111335350%53 px
#FFEE774240%42 px
#DDBB4488%8 px
#FFDD5533%3 px

About this design

The crescent uses two yellows, a pale one for the lit face and a deeper gold along the inner edge, which gives it a soft three-dimensional curve. Three small stars sit in the open side of the crescent at different heights.

How to use it

Use it for bedtime routines, Ramadan and Eid decorations, a nursery picture or a goodnight card. On a navy background in the editor it makes a striking night sky cross stitch.

Size and bead counts

The picture fills 106 of the 256 squares in its grid, within an area 16 squares wide and 14 tall; the rest stay empty. It uses 4 colours: dark blue 53 (#111133), light yellow 42 (#FFEE77), dark yellow 8 (#DDBB44), yellow 3 (#FFDD55). Made with 5 mm fuse beads it measures about 8.0 × 7.0 cm and fits on one standard 29 × 29 pegboard. Stitched on 14-count Aida it is about 2.9 × 2.5 cm, or 3.7 × 3.2 cm on 11-count, so add a few centimetres of fabric on every side for the hoop.

Colour chart for crescent moon pixel art with a bold line every 8
Colour chart preview. The PDF adds symbols, row and column numbers and the full key.

Colour plan

#111133 does the most work, 50% of the 106 pixels, followed by #FFEE77 at 40%. #DDBB44 (8) and #FFDD55 (3) are used only a little: small details worth marking on the chart so you don't miss them. 59% of the grid is left empty.

Working notes

It is 16 × 16 pixels; at 8× scale it becomes 128 × 128. The busiest row changes colour 7 times.

This is an original CraftPatterns design, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0: stitch it, share it and gift what you make — please credit craftpatterns.app and don't sell the pattern itself. Want to change it? Open it in the pixel art editor.

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