Quote Originally Posted by Morningstar1337 View Post
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.)