DMC 801 thread Coffee Brown Dk
DMC stranded cotton 801 is officially called “Coffee Brown Dk”: a dark brown.
- On-screen colour
#653919- RGB 101, 57, 25
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 29 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Coffee Brown” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 801
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 433Brown MedΔE 5.3 · close
- DMC 300Mahogany Vy DkΔE 5.5 · close
- DMC 898Coffee Brown Vy DkΔE 7.1 · close
- DMC 918Red-Copper DarkΔE 8 · close
- DMC 08Dark DriftwoodΔE 10 · fairly close
- DMC 400Mahogany DarkΔE 10 · fairly close
- DMC 3857Rosewood DarkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 632Desert Sand Ult Vy DkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 801 is easily confused with DMC 433 and DMC 300. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 801?
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.