DMC 701 thread Green Light
DMC stranded cotton 701 is officially called “Green Light”: a medium green, vivid.
- On-screen colour
#3F8F29- RGB 63, 143, 41
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 53 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Green” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 701
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 905Parrot Green DkΔE 6 · close
- DMC 702Kelly GreenΔE 7.8 · close
- DMC 904Parrot Green V DkΔE 9.3 · close
- DMC 3347Yellow Green MedΔE 10.1 · fairly close
- DMC 469Avocado GreenΔE 10.4 · fairly close
- DMC 320Pistachio Green MedΔE 10.9 · fairly close
- DMC 700Green BrightΔE 11.1 · fairly close
- DMC 988Forest Green MedΔE 11.6 · fairly close
An easy thread to spot
No other DMC thread is really close to 701, so it stands out on a colour chart. On a black-and-white chart, Grillo can still colour every symbol for you.
How many skeins of DMC 701?
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.