DMC 407 thread Desert Sand Med
DMC stranded cotton 407 is officially called “Desert Sand Med”: a medium brown.
- On-screen colour
#BB8161- RGB 187, 129, 97
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 59 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Desert Sand” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 407
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3773Desert Sand DarkΔE 3.9 · very close
- DMC 3064Desert SandΔE 4.1 · very close
- DMC 435Brown Very LightΔE 5.2 · close
- DMC 3828Hazelnut BrownΔE 6.3 · close
- DMC 3859Rosewood LightΔE 6.7 · close
- DMC 976Golden Brown MedΔE 8 · close
- DMC 3776Mahogany LightΔE 8.3 · close
- DMC 3772Desert Sand Vy DkΔE 8.3 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 407 is easily confused with DMC 3773, DMC 3064 and DMC 435. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 407?
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.