DMC 504 thread Blue Green Vy Lt
DMC stranded cotton 504 is officially called “Blue Green Vy Lt”: a very light green.
- On-screen colour
#C4DECC- RGB 196, 222, 204
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 86 / 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 504
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 966Jade Ultra Vy LtΔE 2.8 · very close
- DMC 3813Blue Green LtΔE 4 · very close
- DMC 164Forest Green LtΔE 5.8 · close
- DMC 369Pistachio Green Vy LtΔE 6 · close
- DMC 564Jade Very LightΔE 7 · close
- DMC 772Yellow Green Vy LtΔE 7.4 · close
- DMC 964Sea Green LightΔE 7.9 · close
- DMC 3348Yellow Green LtΔE 8.2 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 504 is easily confused with DMC 966, DMC 3813 and DMC 164. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 504?
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.