DMC 520 thread Fern Green Dark
DMC stranded cotton 520 is officially called “Fern Green Dark”: a dark green.
- On-screen colour
#666D4F- RGB 102, 109, 79
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 45 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Fern Green” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 520
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3051Green Gray DkΔE 2.6 · very close
- DMC 3362Pine Green DkΔE 3.1 · very close
- DMC 987Forest Green DkΔE 7 · close
- DMC 367Pistachio Green DkΔE 7.1 · close
- DMC 535Ash Gray Vy LtΔE 8 · close
- DMC 937Avocado Green MdΔE 8.2 · close
- DMC 3363Pine Green MdΔE 8.6 · close
- DMC 936Avocado Grn V DkΔE 10.2 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 520 is easily confused with DMC 3051 and DMC 3362. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 520?
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.