DMC 524 thread Fern Green Vy Lt
DMC stranded cotton 524 is officially called “Fern Green Vy Lt”: a light green.
- On-screen colour
#C4CDAC- RGB 196, 205, 172
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 81 / 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 524
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 164Forest Green LtΔE 3.3 · very close
- DMC 3348Yellow Green LtΔE 3.4 · very close
- DMC 368Pistachio Green LtΔE 7.1 · close
- DMC 523Fern Green LtΔE 7.5 · close
- DMC 966Jade Ultra Vy LtΔE 7.5 · close
- DMC 369Pistachio Green Vy LtΔE 7.9 · close
- DMC 772Yellow Green Vy LtΔE 7.9 · close
- DMC 504Blue Green Vy LtΔE 8.3 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 524 is easily confused with DMC 164 and DMC 3348. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 524?
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.