Anchor thread colors by color family
Every Anchor stranded cotton color in the dataset (445 shades), grouped by color family and sorted light to dark. Each card shows the shade's code, name and its nearest DMC number; open one for hex, RGB and Lab values, cross-brand equivalents, blends and shading steps.
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White
White: one entry on this page, Anchor 1037.
Cream and ecru
Cream and ecru: 3 on this page, from Anchor 276 to Anchor 933.
Beige and tan
Beige and tan: 10 on this page, from Anchor 271 to Anchor 899.
- Anchor 271 Soft Carnation · ≈ DMC 818
- Anchor 885 Sand Stone Light · ≈ DMC 745
- Anchor 1010 Cinnamon Very Light · ≈ DMC 945
- Anchor 1026 Wineberry Very Light · ≈ DMC 754
- Anchor 366 Spice Very Light · ≈ DMC 738
- Anchor 6 Salmon Very Light · ≈ DMC 3771
- Anchor 893 Rose Wine · ≈ DMC 224
- Anchor 376 Fawn Light · ≈ DMC 3771
- Anchor 900 Pewter Light · ≈ DMC 3023
- Anchor 899 Tawny Light · ≈ DMC 841
Gray
Gray: 10 on this page, from Anchor 158 to Anchor 1041.
- Anchor 158 Sapphire Very Light · ≈ DMC 828
- Anchor 847 Blue Mist Very Light · ≈ DMC 928
- Anchor 975 Sea Blue Light · ≈ DMC 927
- Anchor 848 Blue Mist · ≈ DMC 927
- Anchor 398 Gray · ≈ DMC 318
- Anchor 850 Blue Mist Medium · ≈ DMC 3768
- Anchor 235 Charcoal Gray Medium · ≈ DMC 317
- Anchor 400 Gray Medium · ≈ DMC 413
- Anchor 401 Gray Dark · ≈ DMC 3799
- Anchor 1041 Stone Gray Very Dark · ≈ DMC 3031
Brown
Brown: 14 on this page, from Anchor 8581 to Anchor 1088.
- Anchor 8581 Stone Gray · ≈ DMC 640
- Anchor 310 Topaz Very Dark · ≈ DMC 400
- Anchor 277 Desert Very Dark · ≈ DMC 780
- Anchor 944 Wheat Dark · ≈ DMC 975
- Anchor 845 Fern Green Medium Dark · ≈ DMC 936
- Anchor 924 Olive Green Very Dark · ≈ DMC 936
- Anchor 340 Terra Cotta Medium Dark · ≈ DMC 3777
- Anchor 904 Mocha Brown Dark · ≈ DMC 838
- Anchor 273 Stone Gray Dark · ≈ DMC 3021
- Anchor 1050 Tawnyu Medium Dark · ≈ DMC 801
- Anchor 1086 Mocha Brown Dark · ≈ DMC 838
- Anchor 846 Fern Green Dark · ≈ DMC 935
- Anchor 905 Tawny Dark · ≈ DMC 3031
- Anchor 1088 Mocha Brown Very Dark · ≈ DMC 938
Red
Red: 6 on this page, from Anchor 1027 to Anchor 1019.
About these Anchor colors
By color family, the 445 Anchor shades split into 66 red, 61 green, 59 brown, 59 blue, 40 pink, 30 orange, 28 yellow, 23 beige and tan, 22 teal and aqua, 22 purple, 21 gray, 10 cream and ecru, 3 white and 1 black.
11 Anchor colors have a DMC twin under ΔE 1 and 162 more sit within ΔE 3; 33 have no DMC match closer than ΔE 6, so those need a test stitch before you swap brands.
The lightest shade is Anchor 1 Snow White (L* 98.9), the darkest Anchor 403 Black (L* 0.0), and the most saturated Anchor 334 Blaze Medium (C* 93.7).
Color values come from KDE KXStitch floss schemes, published under GPL-2.0-or-later and retrieved 2026-10-26. They are screen approximations of dyed thread, so every equivalent here is a computed guide.