DMC 703 thread Chartreuse
DMC stranded cotton 703 is officially called “Chartreuse”: a medium green, vivid.
- On-screen colour
#7BB547- RGB 123, 181, 71
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 68 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Chartreuse” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 703
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 906Parrot Green MdΔE 2.6 · very close
- DMC 470Avocado Grn LtΔE 6.4 · close
- DMC 702Kelly GreenΔE 7.2 · close
- DMC 704Chartreuse BrightΔE 9.2 · close
- DMC 471Avocado Grn V LtΔE 10.1 · fairly close
- DMC 581Moss GreenΔE 11 · fairly close
- DMC 989Forest GreenΔE 11.1 · fairly close
- DMC 913Nile Green MedΔE 11.2 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 703 is easily confused with DMC 906. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 703?
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.