DMC 731 thread Olive Green Dk
DMC stranded cotton 731 is officially called “Olive Green Dk”: a medium yellow.
- On-screen colour
#938B37- RGB 147, 139, 55
- Family
- Yellows and golds
- Lightness
- 57 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Olive Green” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 731
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 732Olive GreenΔE 0.4 · almost identical
- DMC 580Moss Green DkΔE 3.9 · very close
- DMC 730Olive Green V DkΔE 6.1 · close
- DMC 3011Khaki Green DkΔE 7.4 · close
- DMC 831Golden Olive MdΔE 8.9 · close
- DMC 3012Khaki Green MdΔE 9.3 · close
- DMC 469Avocado GreenΔE 9.4 · close
- DMC 3829Old Gold Vy DarkΔE 10.2 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 731 is easily confused with DMC 732 and DMC 580. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 731?
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.