Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
You've actually explained here why Jet Black doesn't present as "Spriggan Black" despite being as black as you can get.
Simply, the texture and therefore the pattern and amount of 'shine' of a piece of equipment is separate to it's colour component, separate to the dye.
The reason clothes dyed Jet Black look grey compared to the Spriggan hat, is because they have texture, the Spriggan hat does not.

They probably can't make a dye any blacker, because dyes don't alter an items texture.

Jet Black is not black. It is very dark, but it is Jet black, not black; not a true lightless black:

Information about Jet Black / #0A0A0A

In a RGB color space (made from three colored lights for red, green, and blue), hex #0A0A0A is made of 3.9% red, 3.9% green and 3.9% blue. In a CMYK color space (also known as process color, or four color, and used in color printing), hex #0A0A0A is made of 0% cyan, 0% magenta, 0% yellow and 96% black. Jet Black has a hue angle of 0 degrees, a saturation of 0% and a lightness of 3.9%.
Color conversion

The hexadecimal color #0A0A0A has RGB values of R: 3.9, G: 3.9, B: 3.9 and CMYK values of C: 0, M: 0, Y: 0, K:0.96.


IRL, Jet black might be considered black because, IRL, we don't have black dye. Jet is the blackest dye we can get. So far so close.
But Jet black still bounces back some light and makes the fabric, wood, dyed metal it's applied to have a visible effect.

FFXIV being a video game, it doesn't have the IRL boundaries.
Jet Black (#0A0A0A) and Black (#000000) are both doable. And different.
And FFXIV being a video game, it doesn't have the IRL boundaries. If you want a true black you can have it. See the Spriggan Cap.

Spriggan Black FTW!