Purple, violet and mauve DMC floss colors

FlossChart's DMC table has 60 purple, violet and mauve colors. This page lists all of them with the DMC number, the name and an approximate screen color, from the lightest (DMC 27, White Violet) to the darkest (DMC 35, Fuschia Very Dark).

How the list is made: a color is on this page when its DMC name contains one of these words: "violet", "lavender", "plum", "grape", "mauve", "eggplant", "blueberry", "fuschia", "purple". Names are what DMC calls the color, so a few colors show up in two families (for example a "Blue Green" is on the green page and the blue page). Lightness is measured as CIELAB L*, the same color math the FlossChart converter uses.

The biggest purple, violet and mauve color groups

Many DMC colors come in runs of one name from very light to very dark. In this family the biggest runs are: Blue Violet (7), Lavender (7), Antique Mauve (6), Plum (6), Violet (6). The Blue Violet run, light to dark, is: Blue Violet Very Light (3747), Blue Violet Light (341), Blue Violet Medium Light (156), Blue Violet Medium (340), Blue Violet Medium Dark (155), Blue Violet Dark (3746), Blue Violet Very Dark (333).

The closest look-alikes in this family, by the same color difference: DMC 24 and DMC 25 (difference 1,9); DMC 341 and DMC 3840 (difference 3,6); DMC 3837 and DMC 327 (difference 3,6). On screen these are hard to tell apart, so check the real thread before you swap one for another.

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All 60 purple, violet and mauve DMC colors, light to dark

DMC	Name	Screen color (hex)
27	White Violet	`#F0EEF9`
17	Yellow Plum Light	`#E5E272`
24	White Lavender	`#E0D7EE`
3747	Blue Violet Very Light	`#D3D7ED`
25	Lavender Ultra Light	`#DAD2E9`
153	Violet Very Light	`#E6CCD9`
211	Lavender Light	`#E3CBE3`
18	Yellow Plum	`#D9D56D`
26	Lavender Pale	`#D7CAE6`
3743	Antique Violet Very Light	`#D7CBD3`
3689	Mauve Light	`#FBBFC2`
3609	Plum Ultra Light	`#F4AED5`
341	Blue Violet Light	`#B7BFDD`
3840	Lavender Blue Light	`#B0C0DA`
554	Violet Light	`#DBB3CB`
778	Antique Mauve Very Light	`#DFB3BB`
3688	Mauve Medium	`#E7A9AC`
3727	Antique Mauve Light	`#DBA9B2`
3608	Plum Very Light	`#EA9CC4`
156	Blue Violet Medium Light	`#A3AED1`
340	Blue Violet Medium	`#ADA7C7`
210	Lavender Medium	`#C39FC3`
3042	Antique Violet Light	`#B79DA7`
3836	Grape Light	`#BA91AA`
155	Blue Violet Medium Dark	`#9891B6`
3839	Lavender Blue Medium	`#7B8EAB`
28	Eggplant Medium Light	`#9086A9`
209	Lavender Dark	`#A37BA7`
3687	Mauve	`#C96B70`
316	Antique Mauve Medium	`#B7737F`
30	Blueberry Medium Light	`#7D77A5`
3041	Antique Violet Medium	`#956F7C`
553	Violet	`#A3638B`
3607	Plum Light	`#C54989`
3746	Blue Violet Dark	`#776B98`
33	Fuschia	`#9C599E`
3838	Lavender Blue Dark	`#5C7294`
3835	Grape Medium	`#946083`
3726	Antique Mauve Dark	`#9B5B66`
208	Lavender Very Dark	`#835B8B`
3803	Mauve Dark	`#AB3357`
3740	Antique Violet Dark	`#785762`
315	Antique Mauve Medium Dark	`#814952`
333	Blue Violet Very Dark	`#5C5478`
31	Blueberry	`#50518D`
718	Plum	`#9C2462`
552	Violet Medium	`#803A6B`
917	Plum Medium	`#9B1359`
29	Eggplant	`#674076`
3802	Antique Mauve Very Darkv	`#714149`
34	Fuschia Dark	`#7D3064`
3837	Lavender Ultra Dark	`#6C3A6E`
3834	Grape Dark	`#72375D`
327	Violet Dark	`#633666`
3685	Mauve Very Dark	`#881531`
32	Blueberry Dark	`#4D2E8A`
915	Plum Dark	`#820043`
154	Grape Very Dark	`#572433`
550	Violet Very Dark	`#5C184E`
35	Fuschia Very Dark	`#46052D`

Screen colors are approximations of real thread. Full list of all 489 colors: DMC floss color chart.

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