DMC 3810 thread Turquoise Dark
DMC stranded cotton 3810 is officially called “Turquoise Dark”: a medium blue.
- On-screen colour
#488E9A- RGB 72, 142, 154
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 55 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Turquoise” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3810
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 806Peacock Blue DarkΔE 2.8 · very close
- DMC 518Wedgewood LightΔE 4 · very close
- DMC 3848Teal Green MedΔE 5.7 · close
- DMC 3765Peacock Blue Vy DkΔE 5.8 · close
- DMC 3809Turquoise Vy DarkΔE 6.7 · close
- DMC 995Electric Blue DarkΔE 6.9 · close
- DMC 597TurquoiseΔE 7.2 · close
- DMC 3760Wedgewood MedΔE 7.4 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3810 is easily confused with DMC 806, DMC 518, DMC 3848 and DMC 3765. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3810?
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.