DMC 300 thread Mahogany Vy Dk
DMC stranded cotton 300 is officially called “Mahogany Vy Dk”: a very dark orange.
- On-screen colour
#6F2F00- RGB 111, 47, 0
- Family
- Oranges and coppers
- Lightness
- 28 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Mahogany” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 300
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 918Red-Copper DarkΔE 4.6 · very close
- DMC 801Coffee Brown DkΔE 5.5 · close
- DMC 433Brown MedΔE 6.6 · close
- DMC 400Mahogany DarkΔE 8 · close
- DMC 3857Rosewood DarkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 898Coffee Brown Vy DkΔE 10.5 · fairly close
- DMC 3777Terra Cotta Vy DkΔE 10.7 · fairly close
- DMC 975Golden Brown DkΔE 11.1 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 300 is easily confused with DMC 918 and DMC 801. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 300?
A skein of DMC stranded cotton is 8 m long and splits into 6 strands. Stitched with 2 strands on 14-count Aida, it covers about 1,800 cross stitches. For your own chart, the cross-stitch calculator gives the number of skeins and the finished size.