DMC 501 thread Blue Green Dark
DMC stranded cotton 501 is officially called “Blue Green Dark”: a dark green.
- On-screen colour
#396F52- RGB 57, 111, 82
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 43 / 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 501
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3815Celadon Green DkΔE 3.4 · very close
- DMC 561Celadon Green VDΔE 3.5 · very close
- DMC 909Emerald Green Vy DkΔE 4.4 · very close
- DMC 910Emerald Green DarkΔE 6.6 · close
- DMC 3346Hunter GreenΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 505Jade GreenΔE 7.3 · close
- DMC 163Celadon Green MdΔE 7.6 · close
- DMC 991Aquamarine DkΔE 7.9 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 501 is easily confused with DMC 3815, DMC 561 and DMC 909. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 501?
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.