DMC 472 thread Avocado Grn U Lt
DMC stranded cotton 472 is officially called “Avocado Grn U Lt”: a very light green.
- On-screen colour
#D8E498- RGB 216, 228, 152
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 88 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
DMC threads closest to 472
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 472 is easily confused with DMC 165. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 472?
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.