DMC 435 thread Brown Very Light
DMC stranded cotton 435 is officially called “Brown Very Light”: a medium brown.
- On-screen colour
#B87748- RGB 184, 119, 72
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 56 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Brown” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 435
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3773Desert Sand DarkΔE 3.6 · very close
- DMC 3826Golden BrownΔE 4.3 · very close
- DMC 976Golden Brown MedΔE 5.2 · close
- DMC 407Desert Sand MedΔE 5.2 · close
- DMC 3776Mahogany LightΔE 5.4 · close
- DMC 420Hazelnut Brown DkΔE 6.2 · close
- DMC 167Yellow Beige V DkΔE 6.7 · close
- DMC 3828Hazelnut BrownΔE 7.3 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 435 is easily confused with DMC 3773, DMC 3826, DMC 976, DMC 407 and DMC 3776. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 435?
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.