DMC 704 thread Chartreuse Bright
DMC stranded cotton 704 is officially called “Chartreuse Bright”: a light green, vivid.
- On-screen colour
#9ECF34- RGB 158, 207, 52
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 77 / 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 704
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 907Parrot Green LtΔE 7.2 · close
- DMC 166Moss Green Md LtΔE 7.8 · close
- DMC 906Parrot Green MdΔE 8.2 · close
- DMC 703ChartreuseΔE 9.2 · close
- DMC 581Moss GreenΔE 10.6 · fairly close
- DMC 3819Moss Green LtΔE 10.9 · fairly close
- DMC 470Avocado Grn LtΔE 10.9 · fairly close
- DMC 471Avocado Grn V LtΔE 11.1 · fairly close
An easy thread to spot
No other DMC thread is really close to 704, 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 704?
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.