DMC 444 thread Lemon Dark
DMC stranded cotton 444 is officially called “Lemon Dark”: a very light yellow, vivid.
- On-screen colour
#FFD600- RGB 255, 214, 0
- Family
- Yellows and golds
- Lightness
- 87 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Lemon” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 444
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 444 is easily confused with DMC 973 and DMC 726. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 444?
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.