DMC 304 thread Red Medium
DMC stranded cotton 304 is officially called “Red Medium”: a dark red, vivid.
- On-screen colour
#B71F33- RGB 183, 31, 51
- Family
- Reds
- Lightness
- 40 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Red” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 304
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 304 is easily confused with DMC 498, DMC 321, DMC 817, DMC 347, DMC 349, DMC 3831 and DMC 326. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 304?
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.