DMC 3844 thread Turquoise Bright Dark
DMC stranded cotton 3844 is officially called “Turquoise Bright Dark”: a medium teal.
- On-screen colour
#12AEBA- RGB 18, 174, 186
- Family
- Teals and turquoises
- Lightness
- 65 / 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 3844
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3845Turquoise Bright MedΔE 6.4 · close
- DMC 807Peacock BlueΔE 6.7 · close
- DMC 597TurquoiseΔE 6.9 · close
- DMC 806Peacock Blue DarkΔE 8.4 · close
- DMC 3843Electric BlueΔE 9 · close
- DMC 3848Teal Green MedΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 3849Teal Green LightΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 518Wedgewood LightΔE 10.7 · fairly close
An easy thread to spot
No other DMC thread is really close to 3844, so it stands out on a colour chart. On a black-and-white chart, Grillo can still colour every symbol for you.
How many skeins of DMC 3844?
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.