DMC 958 thread Sea Green Dark
DMC stranded cotton 958 is officially called “Sea Green Dark”: a medium teal.
- On-screen colour
#3EB6A1- RGB 62, 182, 161
- Family
- Teals and turquoises
- Lightness
- 67 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Sea Green” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 958
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3851Green Bright LtΔE 1.5 · almost identical
- DMC 3849Teal Green LightΔE 2.7 · very close
- DMC 959Sea Green MedΔE 5 · close
- DMC 992Aquamarine LtΔE 6.2 · close
- DMC 503Blue Green MedΔE 8.9 · close
- DMC 3816Celadon GreenΔE 10.2 · fairly close
- DMC 993Aquamarine Vy LtΔE 10.4 · fairly close
- DMC 3845Turquoise Bright MedΔE 10.6 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 958 is easily confused with DMC 3851, DMC 3849 and DMC 959. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 958?
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.