DMC 3846 thread Turquoise Bright Light
DMC stranded cotton 3846 is officially called “Turquoise Bright Light”: a light teal.
- On-screen colour
#06E3E6- RGB 6, 227, 230
- Family
- Teals and turquoises
- Lightness
- 82 / 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 3846
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3845Turquoise Bright MedΔE 7.5 · close
- DMC 959Sea Green MedΔE 10.7 · fairly close
- DMC 964Sea Green LightΔE 11.9 · fairly close
- DMC 3766Peacock Blue LightΔE 12.7 · fairly close
- DMC 598Turquoise LightΔE 13.6 · fairly close
- DMC 3844Turquoise Bright DarkΔE 13.8 · fairly close
- DMC 3849Teal Green LightΔE 14 · fairly close
- DMC 3761Sky Blue LightΔE 14.4 · fairly close
An easy thread to spot
No other DMC thread is really close to 3846, 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 3846?
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.