DMC 996 thread Electric Blue Medium
DMC stranded cotton 996 is officially called “Electric Blue Medium”: a light blue.
- On-screen colour
#30C2EC- RGB 48, 194, 236
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 73 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Electric Blue” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 996
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3843Electric BlueΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 519Sky BlueΔE 8.8 · close
- DMC 807Peacock BlueΔE 9.6 · close
- DMC 597TurquoiseΔE 10.9 · fairly close
- DMC 598Turquoise LightΔE 11 · fairly close
- DMC 3844Turquoise Bright DarkΔE 11.4 · fairly close
- DMC 3766Peacock Blue LightΔE 11.4 · fairly close
- DMC 813Blue LightΔE 12 · fairly close
An easy thread to spot
No other DMC thread is really close to 996, so it stands out on a colour chart. On a black-and-white chart, Grillo can still colour every symbol for you.
How many skeins of DMC 996?
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.