DMC 336 thread Navy Blue
DMC stranded cotton 336 is officially called “Navy Blue”: a very dark blue.
- On-screen colour
#253B73- RGB 37, 59, 115
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 26 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Navy Blue” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 336
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 823Navy Blue DarkΔE 4 · very close
- DMC 820Royal Blue Very DarkΔE 5.3 · close
- DMC 796Royal Blue DarkΔE 5.4 · close
- DMC 797Royal BlueΔE 6 · close
- DMC 939Navy Blue Very DarkΔE 7.1 · close
- DMC 791Cornflower Blue V DΔE 10.1 · fairly close
- DMC 3750Antique Blue Very DkΔE 10.2 · fairly close
- DMC 158Cornflower Blu M V DΔE 11 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 336 is easily confused with DMC 823, DMC 820 and DMC 796. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 336?
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.