DMC 839 thread Beige Brown Dk
DMC stranded cotton 839 is officially called “Beige Brown Dk”: a dark brown.
- On-screen colour
#675541- RGB 103, 85, 65
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 37 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Beige Brown” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 839
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3781Mocha Brown DkΔE 1.3 · almost identical
- DMC 838Beige Brown Vy DkΔE 4.4 · very close
- DMC 610Drab Brown DkΔE 5.3 · close
- DMC 08Dark DriftwoodΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 3787Brown Gray DarkΔE 7.2 · close
- DMC 645Beaver Gray Vy DkΔE 7.8 · close
- DMC 3790Beige Gray Ult DkΔE 8.1 · close
- DMC 3021Brown Gray Vy DkΔE 8.7 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 839 is easily confused with DMC 3781, DMC 838 and DMC 610. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 839?
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.