168

Town Mouse Gray

Beside the three DMC threads closest to it, so the only thing changing is the colour.

DMC 168Town Mouse Gray

DMC 168 is #ABB3B7, RGB 171 179 183. The three beside it are the closest of the 482 DMC threads, measured the way the editor measures a colour match.

The same colour in Anchor, Madeira and Cosmo

Range	Code	Colour	How close	Distance
Anchor	274	Grey Blue VY LT	hard to tell apart	1.7
Madeira	1805	Grey Green Ultra VY	close	4.2
Cosmo	980	no name	a visible step away	7.1

Each one is the nearest thread that range has, picked by measurement rather than read off a maker's conversion chart. The number is how far apart the two colours are on the scale the editor uses to match a thread to a picture; under 1 and nobody could tell them apart.

Use DMC 168 in a pattern

The colour on this page is our screen value for the thread, not the maker's. No thread maker publishes one, so every chart on the web is somebody's estimate, this one included. Use it to compare shades against each other, and buy from a real shade card.