DMC 936 thread Avocado Grn V Dk
DMC stranded cotton 936 is officially called “Avocado Grn V Dk”: a dark green.
- On-screen colour
#4C5826- RGB 76, 88, 38
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 35 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Avocado Grn” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 936
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 935Avocado Green DkΔE 3.8 · very close
- DMC 986Forest Green Vy DkΔE 5.6 · close
- DMC 3362Pine Green DkΔE 8.1 · close
- DMC 3051Green Gray DkΔE 8.1 · close
- DMC 937Avocado Green MdΔE 9 · close
- DMC 987Forest Green DkΔE 9.2 · close
- DMC 3346Hunter GreenΔE 9.2 · close
- DMC 895Hunter Green Vy DkΔE 10.1 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 936 is easily confused with DMC 935 and DMC 986. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 936?
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.