DMC 939 thread Navy Blue Very Dark
DMC stranded cotton 939 is officially called “Navy Blue Very Dark”: a very dark blue.
- On-screen colour
#1B2853- RGB 27, 40, 83
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 17 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Navy Blue” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 939
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 823Navy Blue DarkΔE 3.3 · very close
- DMC 336Navy BlueΔE 7.1 · close
- DMC 820Royal Blue Very DarkΔE 7.2 · close
- DMC 796Royal Blue DarkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 791Cornflower Blue V DΔE 11.2 · fairly close
- DMC 797Royal BlueΔE 12.1 · fairly close
- DMC 158Cornflower Blu M V DΔE 14.5 · fairly close
- DMC 3750Antique Blue Very DkΔE 14.6 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 939 is easily confused with DMC 823. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 939?
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.