Caron One Pound color chart — all 46 shades

About Caron One Pound

Caron One Pound is the big-skein worsted acrylic: 100% acrylic, worsted weight, machine washable and dryable, in a 454 g / 16 oz put-up carrying roughly 812 yd (742 m). That is about two and a quarter standard 7 oz skeins in one ball, which is the entire point of the line — on a blanket-sized project it means far fewer joins, fewer ends to weave in, and no risk of running out of the background color halfway through.

Like Red Heart and Bernat, Caron is a Spinrite brand, so all three sit on the same shelves and the same website. This chart covers all 46 currently listed colorways with their manufacturer shade numbers, taken from the SKU rather than invented by us.

These hex values are approximate. Here is exactly how approximate.

No yarn manufacturer publishes sRGB values. There is no official Caron hex list to copy, so every value here was measured from Caron's own product photograph of the skein: locate the skein in the frame, mask out the printed paper band across its middle, discard the shaded underside and the sheen on the acrylic, and cluster what remains in CIELAB.

That is a repeatable measurement, not a guess — and it is still a photograph: uncalibrated, compressed, lit by whoever shot it, showing one dye lot. Measured against an independent human reading of the same photos, the sampling runs about 2.6 L* darker and 4.8 chroma units duller on average. Relative relationships between shades survive that. Absolute values do not.

The shades to double-check

Deep saturated greens and teals are where the method is weakest, and the gap is big enough to change a decision. In this range the clearest case is Kelly Green, sampled here as #06552f against an independent estimate of #0f7c3d — a disagreement of ΔE 13.4, which is a different shade rather than a different rendering. The same caution applies to every dark, saturated green and teal in the range. Do not pick one of those from the screen.

Names that do not describe their color

Three shades are worth flagging before you order by name. Each was inspected against its photo, and in every case the measurement is right and the name is misleading:

What is not here

Nothing from the current range. Every one of the 46 listed colorways is a solid or a heather, so — unlike Red Heart Super Saver, where 44 self-striping and print shades had to be held back — nothing was excluded here.

What is excluded is the retired range. Dijon, Raspberry, Black Plum, Country Rose, Dark Pink, Raspberry Pink and Blue Danube are discontinued and are sold, when they are sold at all, from separate clearance listings. If a pattern calls for one of those, you are shopping for old stock. Three of the 46 current shades are out of stock at the time of writing but still listed as current colors, and they are included.

Using these colors in a C2C blanket

Corner-to-corner crochet builds a picture from square blocks worked on the diagonal, one block per chart cell. There is no blending and no fractional stitch, so the yarn color is the design — a graphghan is exactly as good as its palette.

One Pound's specific advantage here is skein size. A C2C blanket usually spends most of its blocks on one or two background colors, and a 812 yd skein covers a lot of background without a join. Its disadvantage is range: 46 shades is a narrower choice than Super Saver's 72 solids, and it is thin in the deep saturated end. A common answer is to mix — One Pound for the background, another Spinrite line for detail colors. They are the same weight and fibre, so they behave the same in the fabric.

Whichever way you go, buy all the yarn for one color at once. "No dye lot" on an acrylic band means skeins within a production run match each other; it does not promise that a skein bought in March matches one bought in November.

Ready to design? The C2C crochet pattern maker works directly in these 46 shades, counts the blocks per color, and exports written row-by-row instructions alongside the chart.

The other two yarn charts

• Red Heart Super Saver — 72 solid shades, the widest budget-acrylic range and the usual graphghan default.
• Bernat Super Value — 60 shades, unusually strong on heathers.

Shopping? The current One Pound range lives on Yarnspirations, Spinrite's own storefront and the source of the photographs sampled here — a real skein photo will always beat our swatch. Every other palette we chart, from DMC floss to fuse beads, is on the tools index.