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Third-party data and materials used on this site.

DMC color data

Color data: craft-color-codes by MakeBead, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Dataset: DMC Six-Strand Embroidery Floss (Mouliné Spécial, art. 117), 489 colors.

Changes: we use each color’s code, name and RGB values unmodified. The CIELAB values we use to find the nearest thread are calculated by our software from those RGB values.

On-screen colors are approximate; actual thread color may vary.

Source file (pinned commit)
data/json/dmc-floss.json@84dbdc2
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Example photos

Golden retriever puppy (pet example): RetyiRetyi, CC0 1.0.

The example portrait was created for this site; no attribution required.

Editor fonts

Text in the editor uses these Google Fonts families, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and hosted on this site. Patterns you make with them are yours; the licence covers the font files.

The Block, Serif and Mini stitch alphabets were drawn for this site.

Trademarks

DMC is a trademark of its respective owner. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by DMC.