DMC 3845 thread Turquoise Bright Med
DMC stranded cotton 3845 is officially called “Turquoise Bright Med”: a light teal.
- On-screen colour
#04C4CA- RGB 4, 196, 202
- Family
- Teals and turquoises
- Lightness
- 72 / 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 3845
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3844Turquoise Bright DarkΔE 6.4 · close
- DMC 3846Turquoise Bright LightΔE 7.5 · close
- DMC 959Sea Green MedΔE 9.3 · close
- DMC 3849Teal Green LightΔE 9.4 · close
- DMC 3851Green Bright LtΔE 10.1 · fairly close
- DMC 807Peacock BlueΔE 10.4 · fairly close
- DMC 958Sea Green DarkΔE 10.6 · fairly close
- DMC 598Turquoise LightΔE 11.3 · fairly close
An easy thread to spot
No other DMC thread is really close to 3845, 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 3845?
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.