DMC 611 thread Drab Brown
DMC stranded cotton 611 is officially called “Drab Brown”: a medium brown.
- On-screen colour
#967656- RGB 150, 118, 86
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 52 / 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 611
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 840Beige Brown MedΔE 2.2 · almost identical
- DMC 3862Mocha Beige DarkΔE 3.8 · very close
- DMC 3863Mocha Beige MedΔE 5.2 · close
- DMC 420Hazelnut Brown DkΔE 5.3 · close
- DMC 167Yellow Beige V DkΔE 6.1 · close
- DMC 830Golden Olive DkΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 3790Beige Gray Ult DkΔE 7.2 · close
- DMC 3772Desert Sand Vy DkΔE 7.3 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 611 is easily confused with DMC 840, DMC 3862, DMC 3863 and DMC 420. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 611?
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.