DMC 895 thread Hunter Green Vy Dk
DMC stranded cotton 895 is officially called “Hunter Green Vy Dk”: a dark green.
- On-screen colour
#1B5300- RGB 27, 83, 0
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 30 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Hunter Green” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 895
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3345Hunter Green DkΔE 3.1 · very close
- DMC 699GreenΔE 6.4 · close
- DMC 319Pistachio Grn Vy DkΔE 7.7 · close
- DMC 890Pistachio Grn Ult V DΔE 8.8 · close
- DMC 935Avocado Green DkΔE 10.1 · fairly close
- DMC 936Avocado Grn V DkΔE 10.1 · fairly close
- DMC 3346Hunter GreenΔE 10.6 · fairly close
- DMC 700Green BrightΔE 10.6 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 895 is easily confused with DMC 3345. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 895?
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.