DMC 3823 thread Yellow Ultra Pale
DMC stranded cotton 3823 is officially called “Yellow Ultra Pale”: a very light green.
- On-screen colour
#FFFDE3- RGB 255, 253, 227
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 99 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Yellow” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3823
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 3823 is easily confused with DMC 746, DMC 677, DMC 3078, DMC 712, DMC 772 and DMC ECRU. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3823?
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.