DMC 3031 thread Mocha Brown Vy Dk
DMC stranded cotton 3031 is officially called “Mocha Brown Vy Dk”: a very dark yellow.
- On-screen colour
#4B3C2A- RGB 75, 60, 42
- Family
- Yellows and golds
- Lightness
- 26 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Mocha Brown” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3031
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 838Beige Brown Vy DkΔE 4.4 · very close
- DMC 08Dark DriftwoodΔE 5.3 · close
- DMC 3021Brown Gray Vy DkΔE 8 · close
- DMC 839Beige Brown DkΔE 8.7 · close
- DMC 898Coffee Brown Vy DkΔE 9 · close
- DMC 3781Mocha Brown DkΔE 9.7 · close
- DMC 938Coffee Brown Ult DkΔE 10.2 · fairly close
- DMC 779Cocoa DarkΔE 10.4 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3031 is easily confused with DMC 838 and DMC 08. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3031?
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.