DMC 740 thread Tangerine
DMC stranded cotton 740 is officially called “Tangerine”: a medium orange, vivid.
- On-screen colour
#FF8B00- RGB 255, 139, 0
- Family
- Oranges and coppers
- Lightness
- 69 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Tangerine” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 740
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 970Pumpkin LightΔE 1.4 · almost identical
- DMC 971PumpkinΔE 3.6 · very close
- DMC 3853Autumn Gold DkΔE 5.3 · close
- DMC 741Tangerine MedΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 922Copper LightΔE 9.4 · close
- DMC 977Golden Brown LightΔE 9.9 · close
- DMC 3854Autumn Gold MedΔE 11.2 · fairly close
- DMC 3776Mahogany LightΔE 11.2 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 740 is easily confused with DMC 970, DMC 971 and DMC 3853. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 740?
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.