DMC 799 thread Delft Blue Medium
DMC stranded cotton 799 is officially called “Delft Blue Medium”: a medium blue.
- On-screen colour
#748EB6- RGB 116, 142, 182
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 58 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Delft Blue” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 799
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3839Lavender Blue MedΔE 3.1 · very close
- DMC 931Antique Blue MediumΔE 6.2 · close
- DMC 322Baby Blue DarkΔE 6.6 · close
- DMC 794Cornflower Blue LightΔE 6.7 · close
- DMC 793Cornflower Blue MedΔE 6.9 · close
- DMC 161Blue GrayΔE 7.3 · close
- DMC 334Baby Blue MediumΔE 7.5 · close
- DMC 826Blue MediumΔE 8.6 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 799 is easily confused with DMC 3839. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 799?
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.