DMC thread colors by color family
Every DMC stranded cotton color in the dataset (489 shades), grouped by color family and sorted light to dark. Each card shows the shade's code, name and its nearest Anchor number; open one for hex, RGB and Lab values, cross-brand equivalents, blends and shading steps.
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White
White: 4 on this page, from DMC B5200 to DMC 162.
Cream and ecru
Cream and ecru: 13 on this page, from DMC 3823 to DMC 754.
- DMC 3823 Yellow Ultra Pale · ≈ Anchor 275
- DMC 3770 Tawny Very Light · ≈ Anchor 271
- DMC 677 Old Gold Very Light · ≈ Anchor 275
- DMC Ecru ≈ Anchor 926
- DMC 739 Tan Ultra Very Light · ≈ Anchor 276
- DMC 543 Beige Brown Ultra Very Light · ≈ Anchor 386
- DMC 3774 Desert Sand Very Light · ≈ Anchor 271
- DMC 353 Peach · ≈ Anchor 1026
- DMC 945 Tawny · ≈ Anchor 933
- DMC 3033 Mocha Brown Very Light · ≈ Anchor 1011
- DMC 3047 Yellow Beige Light · ≈ Anchor 276
- DMC 950 Desert Sand Light · ≈ Anchor 892
- DMC 754 Peach Light · ≈ Anchor 1026
Beige and tan
Beige and tan: 15 on this page, from DMC 3078 to DMC 3032.
- DMC 3078 Golden Yellow Very Light · ≈ Anchor 275
- DMC 963 Dusty Rose Ultra Very Light · ≈ Anchor 1026
- DMC 3856 Mahogany Ultra Very Light · ≈ Anchor 778
- DMC 3779 Rosewood Ultra Very Light · ≈ Anchor 1020
- DMC 738 Tan Very Light · ≈ Anchor 366
- DMC 3771 Terra Cotta Ultra Very Light · ≈ Anchor 6
- DMC 613 Drab Brown Very Light · ≈ Anchor 880
- DMC 437 Tan Light · ≈ Anchor 372
- DMC 3782 Mocha Brown Light · ≈ Anchor 388
- DMC 842 Beige Brown Very Light · ≈ Anchor 388
- DMC 758 Terra Cotta Very Light · ≈ Anchor 893
- DMC 3013 Khaki Green Light · ≈ Anchor 842
- DMC 3023 Brown Gray Light · ≈ Anchor 900
- DMC 21 Alizarin Light · ≈ Anchor 9575
- DMC 3032 Mocha Brown Medium · ≈ Anchor 899
Gray
Gray: 17 on this page, from DMC 775 to DMC 3021.
- DMC 775 Baby Blue Very Light · ≈ Anchor 1037
- DMC 23 Apple Blossom · ≈ Anchor 1
- DMC 3841 Baby Blue Pale · ≈ Anchor 128
- DMC 168 Pewter Very Light · ≈ Anchor 234
- DMC 3752 Antique Blue Very Light · ≈ Anchor 1031
- DMC 3743 Antique Violet Very Light · ≈ Anchor 869
- DMC 159 Blue Gray Light · ≈ Anchor 120
- DMC 927 Gray Green Light · ≈ Anchor 274
- DMC 647 Beaver Gray Medium · ≈ Anchor 231
- DMC 646 Beaver Gray Dark · ≈ Anchor 1040
- DMC 3768 Gray Green Dark · ≈ Anchor 779
- DMC 317 Pewter Gray · ≈ Anchor 235
- DMC 645 Beaver Gray Very Dark · ≈ Anchor 8581
- DMC 924 Gray Green Very Dark · ≈ Anchor 779
- DMC 535 Ash Gray Very Light · ≈ Anchor 8581
- DMC 413 Pewter Gray Dark · ≈ Anchor 400
- DMC 3021 Brown Gray Very Dark · ≈ Anchor 273
Black
Black: one entry on this page, DMC 310.
Brown
Brown: 8 on this page, from DMC 642 to DMC 869.
- DMC 642 Beige Gray Dark · ≈ Anchor 899
- DMC 3859 Rosewood Light · ≈ Anchor 1008
- DMC 640 Beige Gray Very Dark · ≈ Anchor 1040
- DMC 830 Golden Olive Dark · ≈ Anchor 855
- DMC 3772 Desert Sand Very Dark · ≈ Anchor 379
- DMC 3862 Mocha Beige Dark · ≈ Anchor 903
- DMC 434 Brown Light · ≈ Anchor 309
- DMC 869 Hazelnut Brown Very Dark · ≈ Anchor 375
About these DMC colors
By color family, the 489 DMC shades split into 75 green, 55 brown, 53 red, 52 blue, 44 pink, 44 yellow, 34 gray, 30 teal and aqua, 26 beige and tan, 21 cream and ecru, 21 orange, 21 purple, 11 white and 2 black.
11 DMC colors have an Anchor twin under ΔE 1 and 170 more sit within ΔE 3; 44 have no Anchor match closer than ΔE 6, so those need a test stitch before you swap brands.
The lightest shade is DMC B5200 Snow White (L* 100.0), the darkest DMC 310 Black (L* 0.0), and the most saturated DMC 606 Orange-Red Bright (C* 97.9).
Color values come from sharlagelfand/dmc (data-raw/floss_adrianj.csv); codes 01-35 from KDE KXStitch dmc.xml, published under MIT (codes 01-35: 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.