Does square enix hate purple?

[Iscah]

I just had this frustration last night when I was searching for a color for my Dragoon!

We need more purple options!

Dragoon has a perfect match but it's not in the purple tab.

Try "Abyssal Blue".


(I have no idea why someone thought the name Dragoon Blue should go to that Screen-of-Death Blue they introduced recently.)

[Morningstar1337]

Dragoon has a perfect match but it's not in the purple tab.

Try "Abyssal Blue".


(I have no idea why someone thought the name Dragoon Blue should go to that Screen-of-Death Blue they introduced recently.)

Abyssal Blue is useful more for being the closest to the indigo (read: blue-violet) shade in the game, the lack of more explicit options is a symptom of the lack of purple dyes the thread was made for.

(I actually use the shade for my NIN glam because I wanted such an indigo color, I also used Dragoon Blue on DRG because I wanted saturated colors and the name at least makes it appropriate for the job)

[Iscah]

Abyssal Blue is useful more for being the closest to the indigo (read: blue-violet) shade in the game, the lack of more explicit options is a symptom of the lack of purple dyes the thread was made for.

(I actually use the shade for my NIN glam because I wanted such an indigo color, I also used Dragoon Blue on DRG because I wanted saturated colors and the name at least makes it appropriate for the job)

Yes, Abyssal Blue also works well for ninja. But it tones in with dragoon armour perfectly and I've been using it for ages. This is the best reference pic I have on hand, though it doesn't show off the colours all that well.

Wikipedia gives a few different colour examples for shades of indigo - Abyssal Blue is what I would otherwise call "electric purple" and the article labels as "electric indigo". FFXIV's Midnight Blue seems to be "web-colour indigo". ("Indigo dye" is the colour I normally associate with indigo, as that's what it's used for in Derwent pencils which were my main source of learning fancy colour-words!)

In any case, if indigo is "blue-violet" then it does make consistent sense to file those under blue rather than purple. Orange-reds (and orange-pinks like coral) are under red, greenish-yellows are under yellow, blue-greens are under green, reddish-purples are under purple. Each one picks up the "hybrid" colours for the next step around the colour wheel - possibly excepting orange/brown which is a bit of an odd one out regardless.

Certainly we could do with more purples - magenta is a top pick for me, and I'm disappointed with some of the uglier colours that did get added. But that doesn't change that there are more purples than just in the purple tab when you're trying to find a match.

(Does anyone really like vanilla yellow? It looks like a very hard-to-use colour and I've never needed to match anything like it - unless maybe it does interesting things with metallics.)

[Morningstar1337]

Wikipedia gives a few different colour examples for shades of indigo - Abyssal Blue is what I would otherwise call "electric purple" and the article labels as "electric indigo". FFXIV's Midnight Blue seems to be "web-colour indigo". ("Indigo dye" is the colour I normally associate with indigo, as that's what it's used for in Derwent pencils which were my main source of learning fancy colour-words!)

I'll consider Midnight Blue then, thanks.

(Does anyone really like vanilla yellow? It looks like a very hard-to-use colour and I've never needed to match anything like it - unless maybe it does interesting things with metallics.)

Vanilla Yellow is weird, the other 5 Dyes are both saturated and include a color is adjacent it to but could be its own color entirely. But this one is a pastel/off-white color, more akin to the GP-Pastel dyes or the likes of Celeste Green or Cobiri Pink

While that's true all the colors added were all to ones that have almost 2 full list on them already

TBF those are the primary colors. And There is now a proper Pink dyein the game (which is in the reds) and an awesome cyan dye (whetherornot that counts as "blue" seems to be up to player preference)

[ItMe]

It's probably because there are literally less shades of purple than some other colors. Purple barely registers into our spectrum of visible light.

Regardless, I agree with you that they still could do better. I'd love it if they added a vivid neon purple.

[Vyrerus]

What ItMe said. Unfortunately, there's just less purple for human eyes as it stands.

Though they obviously haven't used every shade of purple that there is, so we definitely could have more dyes. My guess is that they take time to add in what's deemed most popular, and just sorta sit on the other dyes... though there are so many brown dyes hehe, and I hardly ever see people using dyes in the brown tab.

I tend to gravitate towards Charcoal grey, Deepwood or Morbol green, Rhotano Blue, Wine Red, Gloom Purple, or Metallic Silver myself.

[Theodric]

They actually added some new dyes to the game recently so I wouldn't be surprised to see additional colours added in the future.

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

They actually added some new dyes to the game recently so I wouldn't be surprised to see additional colours added in the future.

While that's true all the colors added were all to ones that have almost 2 full list on them already

[Controller]

Colors. Sonic Colors. I'll see myself out. >.>

[WigglesTheWiggly]

Honestly we just need to nix the current system and get a proper color wheel so players can have any shade or hue imaginable.

Want a really specific color like R76 G43 B75? Drag your mouse to that spot on the wheel and press apply.