DMC 610 thread Drab Brown Dk
DMC stranded cotton 610 is officially called “Drab Brown Dk”: a dark brown.
- On-screen colour
#796047- RGB 121, 96, 71
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 43 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Drab Brown” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 610
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3790Beige Gray Ult DkΔE 4 · very close
- DMC 3781Mocha Brown DkΔE 4.2 · very close
- DMC 869Hazelnut Brown V DkΔE 4.8 · very close
- DMC 839Beige Brown DkΔE 5.3 · close
- DMC 3862Mocha Beige DarkΔE 5.9 · close
- DMC 829Golden Olive Vy DkΔE 7.6 · close
- DMC 645Beaver Gray Vy DkΔE 8.4 · close
- DMC 632Desert Sand Ult Vy DkΔE 8.5 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 610 is easily confused with DMC 3790, DMC 3781, DMC 869, DMC 839 and DMC 3862. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 610?
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.