DMC 3078 thread Golden Yellow Vy Lt
DMC stranded cotton 3078 is officially called “Golden Yellow Vy Lt”: a very light yellow.
- On-screen colour
#FDF9CD- RGB 253, 249, 205
- Family
- Yellows and golds
- Lightness
- 97 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
DMC threads closest to 3078
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 3078 is easily confused with DMC 677, DMC 3823 and DMC 727. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3078?
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.