Dyes? Why can't we get a color wheel?

[ForsakenRoe]

I'd assume that a color wheel would require storing the data of the color as 3 sets of 8 bits (0-255 for R G and B values), whereas current system can be stored as one set of bits of whatever length (eg if there's a total of 128 or less dye options, it's 7 bits total). Effectively, it'd be tripling the data stored for each item, and we know thanks to how bad the Glam Dresser currently works, that the 'data attached to item' causes a lot of issues already so we probably don't want to complicate it further

Instead, I'd agree with consolidating the dyes required so that Wine Red, Dalamud Red and Rose Red or whatever, all shades of red, require one 'Red Dye' instead of having to get the specific variant. It sucks when the Fashion Report asks for a certain dye and you go 'oop guess I have to go to the Sahagin vendor for this one'

They probably ought to address the imbalance in colors too. Why is there like, twice as many greens as there is purples?

[TheDustyOne]

I'd assume that a color wheel would require storing the data of the color as 3 sets of 8 bits (0-255 for R G and B values), whereas current system can be stored as one set of bits of whatever length (eg if there's a total of 128 or less dye options, it's 7 bits total). Effectively, it'd be tripling the data stored for each item, and we know thanks to how bad the Glam Dresser currently works, that the 'data attached to item' causes a lot of issues already so we probably don't want to complicate it further

Instead, I'd agree with consolidating the dyes required so that Wine Red, Dalamud Red and Rose Red or whatever, all shades of red, require one 'Red Dye' instead of having to get the specific variant. It sucks when the Fashion Report asks for a certain dye and you go 'oop guess I have to go to the Sahagin vendor for this one'

They probably ought to address the imbalance in colors too. Why is there like, twice as many greens as there is purples?

I wouldn't be surprised at all if Square only uses a single byte to represent dye data, which would make a true colour wheel... difficult. Even still, that's 256 potential dyes to work with, I'm sure we could increase the amount of colours we have now to at least give us extra hues and shades.