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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- Retrieved
Example photos
Golden retriever puppy (pet example): RetyiRetyi, CC0 1.0.
The example portrait was created for this site; no attribution required.
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