DMC 898 thread Coffee Brown Vy Dk
DMC stranded cotton 898 is officially called “Coffee Brown Vy Dk”: a very dark brown.
- On-screen colour
#492A13- RGB 73, 42, 19
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 21 / 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 898
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 938Coffee Brown Ult DkΔE 5.2 · close
- DMC 801Coffee Brown DkΔE 7.1 · close
- DMC 3031Mocha Brown Vy DkΔE 9 · close
- DMC 08Dark DriftwoodΔE 9.7 · close
- DMC 300Mahogany Vy DkΔE 10.5 · fairly close
- DMC 3857Rosewood DarkΔE 11.2 · fairly close
- DMC 838Beige Brown Vy DkΔE 11.6 · fairly close
- DMC 433Brown MedΔE 12.3 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 898 is easily confused with DMC 938. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 898?
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.