DMC color chart for diamond painting, with a printable drill checklist

Diamond painting kits number their drills with DMC's embroidery floss codes, so a chart of DMC codes is the master list for every spare drill you own. Below is the full list as DMC publishes it (508 colors, searchable by number or color family) and a one-page printable checklist of the 490 solid colors for tracking your stash. The printable lists codes only, with no printed swatches, because a home printer can't reproduce the colors.

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How to use the checklist

Print the sheet and go through your stash one container at a time. Mark each code with the key: an empty box for a code you have plenty of, a half-filled box for one running low and a filled box for one you need. The small second box takes a rough quantity: a number of drills, a fraction of a bag, or just "½".

Keep the sheet with your storage and check it in two situations. Before you order replacement drills, look for the code you're missing. It's often already in a container from an older kit. And before you start a kit with a short bag, check whether you have enough of that code to cover it. When the sheet gets messy, print a new one.

Our guide to leftover drills covers what to make with a big stash, and the missing drills guide walks through claiming a short bag from the seller. If you log each kit on our project log printable, write any missing codes there too.

Why your kit's "310" may not match another kit's

DMC makes thread, not drills. Drill makers borrow DMC's floss numbering because it's the system every chart already uses, then mix their own resin to match each floss color. Two brands' "DMC 666" drills are both meant to be the same red, but a different resin or batch can shift the shade, and so can the cut of the facets.

In practice that matters in two places. A small patch of substitute drills inside a big area of one color can show up as a faint blotch, so for sky or background colors try to use drills from the same kit. For details and small highlights, a drill with the right code from another maker is almost always fine. If a kit uses its own numbering (some custom and specialty kits do), match by eye against that kit's chart, not this list.

Full DMC color chart with names and color families

Every code DMC lists for its six-strand embroidery floss on dmc.com, checked October 3, 2026. Use the box to search by code or name, or filter by family. The swatches are approximate and only for orientation on screen. Screens vary, and nothing here replaces the drills in your hand.

Names are as DMC's US site lists them. DMC's English pages put the word "Metallic" in front of 22 ordinary cotton colors (310 and 321 among them). DMC describes this floss as 100% cotton and its French pages leave the word out, so we've dropped it. A few codes have no name on dmc.com, and three codes (57, 67, 776) appear on DMC's UK site but not the US one. "Variegated" marks DMC's ombre threads, which shade from light to dark along one strand.

The printable drill inventory checklist

Only the sheet prints. It fits one US Letter page at small type (codes at about 8 pt), so print at 100% scale; on A4, choose "Fit to page". It lists the 490 solid colors and leaves out DMC's 18 variegated codes (48, 51, 52, 53, 67, 69, 90, 92, 93, 94, 99, 105, 106, 107, 111, 115, 121, 125), since a drill is one solid color. If your kit uses one, write it in the "codes I need" box.

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Storing the drills the checklist tracks

A checklist is only as good as the storage behind it. Containers labeled with the DMC number, kept in code order, let you go down the sheet and the stash together. Our diamond painting storage guide compares grid boxes and screw-top jar sets by how many codes they hold, and trays with lids are handy for the codes you're using right now. To see how many drills a new canvas needs before you dip into the stash, use the diamond painting calculator.

Source: DMC six-strand embroidery floss (ref. 117MC) color list on dmc.com (US and UK sites), checked October 3, 2026. Swatch colors on screen are averaged from DMC's own product swatch images and are approximate. DMC is a trademark of DMC. Diamond Art Guide is not affiliated with or endorsed by DMC. How we research · Affiliate disclosure