DMC 792 thread Cornflower Blue Dark
DMC stranded cotton 792 is officially called “Cornflower Blue Dark”: a dark blue.
- On-screen colour
#555B7B- RGB 85, 91, 123
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 39 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Cornflower Blue” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 792
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 158Cornflower Blu M V DΔE 3.5 · very close
- DMC 3807Cornflower BlueΔE 4.7 · very close
- DMC 333Blue Violet Very DarkΔE 5.6 · close
- DMC 791Cornflower Blue V DΔE 7.8 · close
- DMC 930Antique Blue DarkΔE 9.5 · close
- DMC 3838Lavender Blue DarkΔE 9.7 · close
- DMC 3746Blue Violet DarkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 798Delft Blue DarkΔE 10.5 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 792 is easily confused with DMC 158, DMC 3807 and DMC 333. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 792?
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.