DMC 563 thread Jade Light
DMC stranded cotton 563 is officially called “Jade Light”: a light green.
- On-screen colour
#8FC098- RGB 143, 192, 152
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 73 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Jade” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 563
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 954Nile GreenΔE 1.8 · almost identical
- DMC 3817Celadon Green LtΔE 4.7 · very close
- DMC 368Pistachio Green LtΔE 5 · close
- DMC 564Jade Very LightΔE 5.3 · close
- DMC 955Nile Green LightΔE 5.5 · close
- DMC 503Blue Green MedΔE 7.2 · close
- DMC 913Nile Green MedΔE 7.7 · close
- DMC 3813Blue Green LtΔE 8.4 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 563 is easily confused with DMC 954, DMC 3817, DMC 368, DMC 564 and DMC 955. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 563?
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.