Yellow and gold DMC floss colors

FlossChart's DMC table has 58 yellow and gold colors. This page lists all of them with the DMC number, the name and an approximate screen color, from the lightest (DMC 3823, Yellow Ultra Pale) to the darkest (DMC 975, Golden Brown Dark).

How the list is made: a color is on this page when its DMC name contains one of these words: "yellow", "lemon", "canary", "topaz", "golden", "gold", "straw", "mustard", "cream", "tawny". 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 yellow and gold color groups

Many DMC colors come in runs of one name from very light to very dark. In this family the biggest runs are: Topaz (8), Golden Olive (6), Golden Brown (5), Old Gold (5), Autumn Gold (4). The Topaz run, light to dark, is: Topaz Very Light (727), Topaz Light (726), Topaz Medium Light (725), Topaz (728), Topaz Medium (783), Topaz Dark (782), Topaz Very Dark (781), Topaz Ultra Very Dark (780).

The closest look-alikes in this family, by the same color difference: DMC 729 and DMC 3852 (difference 3,6); DMC 3821 and DMC 743 (difference 3,9); DMC 371 and DMC 370 (difference 4,2). On screen these are hard to tell apart, so check the real thread before you swap one for another.

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All 58 yellow and gold DMC colors, light to dark

DMC	Name	Screen color (hex)
3823	Yellow Ultra Pale	`#FFFDE3`
712	Cream	`#FFFBEF`
3078	Golden Yellow Very Light	`#FDF9CD`
445	Lemon Light	`#FFFB8B`
3770	Tawny Vy Light	`#FFEEE3`
727	Topaz Very Light	`#FFF1AF`
677	Old Gold Very Light	`#F5ECCB`
745	Yellow Pale Light	`#FFE9AD`
307	Lemon	`#FDED54`
772	Yellow Green Very Light	`#E4ECD4`
744	Yellow Pale	`#FFE793`
951	Tawny Light	`#FFE2CF`
973	Canary Bright	`#FFE300`
3822	Straw Light	`#F6DC98`
17	Yellow Plum Light	`#E5E272`
945	Tawny	`#FBD5BB`
726	Topaz Light	`#FDD755`
444	Lemon Dark	`#FFD600`
3855	Autumn Gold Light	`#FAD396`
743	Yellow Medium	`#FED376`
3047	Yellow Beige Light	`#E7D6C1`
3348	Yellow Green Light	`#CCD9B1`
3821	Straw	`#F3CE75`
18	Yellow Plum	`#D9D56D`
676	Old Gold Light	`#E5CE97`
725	Topaz Medium Light	`#FFC840`
19	Autumn Gold medium Light	`#F7C95F`
3827	Golden Brown Pale	`#F7BB77`
972	Canary Deep	`#FFB515`
834	Golden Olive Very Light	`#DBBE7F`
3046	Yellow Beige Medium	`#D8BC9A`
3854	Autumn Gold Medium	`#F2AF68`
728	Topaz	`#E4B468`
3820	Straw Dark	`#DFB65F`
372	Mustard Light	`#CCB784`
833	Golden Olive Light	`#C8AB6C`
3853	Autumn Gold Dark	`#F29746`
729	Old Gold Medium	`#D0A53E`
977	Golden Brown Light	`#DC9C56`
371	Mustard	`#BFA671`
3852	Straw Very Dark	`#CD9D37`
370	Mustard Medium	`#B89D64`
832	Golden Olive	`#BD9B51`
3045	Yellow Beige Dark	`#BC966A`
783	Topaz Medium	`#CE9124`
680	Old Gold Dark	`#BC8D0E`
831	Golden Olive Medium	`#AA8F56`
976	Golden Brown Medium	`#C28142`
3347	Yellow Green Medium	`#71935C`
3829	Old Gold Vy Dark	`#A98204`
167	Yellow Beige Very Dark	`#A77C49`
782	Topaz Dark	`#AE7720`
3826	Golden Brown	`#AD7239`
830	Golden Olive Dark	`#8D784B`
781	Topaz Very Dark	`#A26D20`
829	Golden Olive Very Dark	`#7E6B42`
780	Topaz Ultra Very Dark	`#94631A`
975	Golden Brown Dark	`#914F12`

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

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