DMC 500 thread Blue Green Vy Dk
DMC stranded cotton 500 is officially called “Blue Green Vy Dk”: a dark green.
- On-screen colour
#044D33- RGB 4, 77, 51
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 28 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Blue Green” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 500
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3818Emerald Grn Ult V DkΔE 4.3 · very close
- DMC 890Pistachio Grn Ult V DΔE 5.1 · close
- DMC 319Pistachio Grn Vy DkΔE 8.6 · close
- DMC 561Celadon Green VDΔE 10 · fairly close
- DMC 986Forest Green Vy DkΔE 10.8 · fairly close
- DMC 909Emerald Green Vy DkΔE 11.2 · fairly close
- DMC 3345Hunter Green DkΔE 11.2 · fairly close
- DMC 501Blue Green DarkΔE 11.9 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 500 is easily confused with DMC 3818 and DMC 890. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 500?
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.