Conversion chart
Brother Embroidery to Madeira Polyneon
Every Brother Embroidery colour with its closest Madeira Polyneon thread, matched in CIELAB with CIEDE2000. 38 of 61 have a match under ΔE 5 (close enough for most work); the rest are labelled so you can pick by eye.
1
indistinguishable (ΔE under 1)
38
close (ΔE under 5)
2
no real equivalent (ΔE 10 or more)
| Brother Embroidery | Madeira Polyneon | ΔE | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 900 | Black | 1800 | Black | 12.5 different | ||
| 001 | White | 1804 | Blanc de Blanc | 3.2 close | ||
| 800 | Red | 1779 | Honeysuckle | 3.5 close | ||
| 085 | Pink | 1921 | Wild Pink | 1.2 very close | ||
| 086 | Deep Rose | 1721 | Begonia | 4.0 close | ||
| 124 | Flesh Pink | 1713 | Petal Pink | 3.5 close | ||
| 107 | Dark Fuchsia | 1786 | Candy Apple Red | 4.2 close | ||
| 030 | Vermilion | 1837 | Fluo Pink | 2.8 close | ||
| 807 | Carmine | 1907 | Fluorescent Red | 2.1 very close | ||
| 869 | Royal Purple | 1833 | Dark Purple | 5.7 noticeable | ||
| 620 | Magenta | 1880 | Dark Purple | 5.6 noticeable | ||
| 079 | Salmon Pink | 1915 | Emily Pink | 3.4 close | ||
| 333 | Amber Red | 1681 | Atom Red | 4.6 close | ||
| 202 | Lemon Yellow | 1867 | Applegreen | 4.5 close | ||
| 205 | Yellow | 1995 | Bright yellow | 0.0 identical | ||
| 206 | Harvest Gold | 1924 | Moonbeam | 1.1 very close | ||
| 208 | Orange | 1971 | Manila | 1.8 very close | ||
| 126 | Pumpkin | 1923 | Merit Gold | 2.3 very close | ||
| 209 | Tangerine | 1951 | Honeydew | 1.7 very close | ||
| 010 | Cream Brown | 1666 | Wheat | 8.3 noticeable | ||
| 812 | Cream Yellow | 1866 | Pale Yellow | 5.4 noticeable | ||
| 348 | Khaki | 1670 | Old Gold | 2.3 close | ||
| 214 | Deep Gold | 1825 | Gold | 3.3 close | ||
| 328 | Brass | 1959 | Shimmering Gold | 5.6 noticeable | ||
| 307 | Linen | 1723 | Impala | 5.3 noticeable | ||
| 058 | Dark Brown | 1659 | Dark Oak | 12.8 different | ||
| 337 | Reddish Brown | 1765 | Pumpkin | 7.5 noticeable | ||
| 339 | Clay Brown | 1621 | Old Dark Tex Orange | 6.2 noticeable | ||
| 843 | Beige | 1666 | Wheat | 2.1 very close | ||
| 399 | Warm Gray | 1686 | Gray Lilac | 6.2 noticeable | ||
| 330 | Russet Brown | 1790 | Palmetto | 5.7 noticeable | ||
| 323 | Light Brown | 1625 | Copper | 4.2 close | ||
| 542 | Seacrest | 1645 | Seafrost | 9.1 noticeable | ||
| 502 | Mint Green | 1748 | Spruce | 3.1 close | ||
| 509 | Leaf Green | 1850 | Green | 4.4 close | ||
| 519 | Olive Green | 1902 | Mitchell Green | 9.7 noticeable | ||
| 517 | Dark Olive | 1756 | Green | 8.7 noticeable | ||
| 534 | Teal Green | 1685 | J. Turquoise | 4.3 close | ||
| 507 | Emerald Green | 1851 | Fleece Green | 2.9 close | ||
| 808 | Deep Green | 1704 | Evergreen | 7.9 noticeable | ||
| 027 | Fresh Green | 1867 | Applegreen | 4.9 close | ||
| 513 | Lime Green | 1901 | Emerald | 5.3 noticeable | ||
| 515 | Moss Green | 1650 | Medium Green | 4.4 close | ||
| 405 | Blue | 1842 | Fire Blue | 2.4 close | ||
| 406 | Ultramarine | 1767 | Royal | 4.5 close | ||
| 017 | Light Blue | 1932 | Pale Blue | 7.6 noticeable | ||
| 019 | Sky Blue | 1977 | Dark Turquoise Blue | 3.8 close | ||
| 420 | Electric Blue | 1642 | Blue | 2.4 close | ||
| 415 | Peacock Blue | 1843 | Royal Blue | 1.8 very close | ||
| 007 | Prussian Blue | 1722 | Purple Maze | 9.1 noticeable | ||
| 070 | Corn Flower | 1943 | Violet | 3.4 close | ||
| 810 | Light Lilac | 1921 | Wild Pink | 6.2 noticeable | ||
| 612 | Lilac | 1631 | Laurie Lilac | 4.9 close | ||
| 613 | Violet | 1833 | Dark Purple | 7.9 noticeable | ||
| 614 | Purple | 1922 | Purple Accent | 6.1 noticeable | ||
| 804 | Lavender | 1911 | Light Pink | 8.8 noticeable | ||
| 607 | Wistaria Violet | 1943 | Violet | 4.6 close | ||
| 704 | Pewter | 1841 | Midnight | 3.0 close | ||
| 707 | Dark Gray | 1800 | Black | 4.0 close | ||
| 005 | Silver | 1810 | Pale Grey | 3.0 close | ||
| 817 | Gray | 1918 | Limestone | 2.2 very close | ||
How this table was made
Both charts are the manufacturers' published colour lists as RGB approximations, the same data Ink/Stitch ships. Each Brother Embroidery colour is converted to CIELAB and compared with every Madeira Polyneon colour using CIEDE2000, which weights lightness, chroma and hue the way people see them; the closest wins and its distance is shown. ΔE under 1 is indistinguishable, under 2.3 very close, under 5 close, under 10 noticeable side by side, over 10 a different colour.
Where the charts disagree most
The Brother Embroidery colours with the weakest Madeira Polyneon match are Dark Brown 058 (ΔE 12.8), Black 900 (ΔE 12.5), Olive Green 519 (ΔE 9.7), Prussian Blue 007 (ΔE 9.1), Seacrest 542 (ΔE 9.1), Lavender 804 (ΔE 8.8). For those, pull the two nearest cones and hold them against the artwork in daylight rather than trusting the number.
Converting a whole design
Drop the stitch file on the thread colour converter to match every block at once and print the result as a colour sheet. Chart values are approximations, not spectrophotometer readings; confirm a customer's brand colour against a physical thread card.