DMC 959 thread Sea Green Med
DMC stranded cotton 959 is officially called “Sea Green Med”: a light teal.
- On-screen colour
#59C7B4- RGB 89, 199, 180
- Family
- Teals and turquoises
- Lightness
- 74 / 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 959
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 958Sea Green DarkΔE 5 · close
- DMC 3849Teal Green LightΔE 5.4 · close
- DMC 3851Green Bright LtΔE 5.4 · close
- DMC 992Aquamarine LtΔE 7.7 · close
- DMC 993Aquamarine Vy LtΔE 8.4 · close
- DMC 3845Turquoise Bright MedΔE 9.3 · close
- DMC 3817Celadon Green LtΔE 10.2 · fairly close
- DMC 503Blue Green MedΔE 10.2 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 959 is easily confused with DMC 958, DMC 3849 and DMC 3851. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 959?
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.