DMC 938 thread Coffee Brown Ult Dk
DMC stranded cotton 938 is officially called “Coffee Brown Ult Dk”: a very dark brown.
- On-screen colour
#361F0E- RGB 54, 31, 14
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 14 / 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 938
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 898Coffee Brown Vy DkΔE 5.2 · close
- DMC 3371Black BrownΔE 8.5 · close
- DMC 3031Mocha Brown Vy DkΔE 10.2 · fairly close
- DMC 08Dark DriftwoodΔE 12 · fairly close
- DMC 801Coffee Brown DkΔE 12.2 · fairly close
- DMC 838Beige Brown Vy DkΔE 13.9 · fairly close
- DMC 3857Rosewood DarkΔE 14 · fairly close
- DMC 300Mahogany Vy DkΔE 15.2 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 938 is easily confused with DMC 898. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 938?
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.