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Color harmonies for your floss
Start from a floss and pick a scheme: the tool works out the matching colors on the color wheel, and finds the closest floss in the chosen brand.
- 5 color schemes
- DMC, Anchor, Madeira, Sullivans
- From a floss or a color
Color schemes
On the color wheel, neighboring colors blend gently, opposite colors (complementary) make each other pop, and three colors spread around the wheel (a triad) give a bright, balanced set. Monochrome stays on a single hue, from light to dark.
The tool works out these colors from your floss in a color space that follows how the eye sees (CIELAB), then picks for each one the closest floss on screen in the chosen brand, never the same one twice.
A tip
A scheme reads best with one dominant color: keep the starting floss for large areas, and the others for details. For a gray, white or black floss, monochrome is the scheme that makes the most sense.
To go further than this tool: the free cross stitch software stixiva draws, converts and prints your charts, online or on Windows, and its Stitch mode tracks your stitches as you work.
My floss is gray: why do the schemes look alike?
A gray has almost no hue: turning around the color wheel barely changes it. Pick monochrome, or start from a more colorful floss.
Can I start from a color in a photo?
Yes: pick the color with the selector, and the tool takes the closest floss as its starting point. The “Which floss is this color?” tool also reads a color from a photo.
Are the colors accurate?
They are on-screen colors, as a guide: check the scheme with real skeins, side by side, in the light you stitch in.
Build your palette in the editor
In the editor, your floss colors make up the project's palette, with the shopping list and estimated skeins.
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