Tailor Archive

I've tried to skim through tons of threads to see if anyone covered this yet, but what exactly do you sell as "black"? I get 349028304 requests for "black" stuff every single day, to which I explain that I can make something really dark grey, or really dark brown... but I don't have true black.

So what color do you name and sell as black? There is nothing I can make that passes for it for 99% of the clothes I can make, at any rate. Am I missing something? Or does everyone just pick the color they think looks the darkest andput a black label on it?

I've had this conversation with a lot of customers and I've found that the darkest grey is by far the most acceptable one. For some people, it does actually look black on their computers.

Being consistent with what you label colors is just as important, if not more so.

Some items look blacker than others with that dark grey, and most people will be happy with it. It's the same with whites (light pink or light green actually), and the old 'red' that looked dark pink on my screen and not red at all

I sold a white outfit today which was actually light pink. The 'white' of one of the items was actually matching the light pink of another item, so I just did it all light pink and nobody would have guessed it was pink.

I have my clothing tool open and I'm looking at the white, and it looks white to me. I don't see a pinkish tint, even if I pick a darker shade.

If you resize the window, so that there are two columns of colors, the one I'm using is the first color of the fourth row.

Especially for items like the Grand Healer Robe and the Doctor's Dress, people are really picky about getting a white and not a light pink or light green. And like the blacks, the light green actually looks lighter than the white in the palette, but on the clothing, the tint is fairly obvious.

I think the big problem that many are hitting with the lack of a true black is twofold: First, because night is so dark, people crank their gamma settings up to try to compensate, meaning that everything's brighter than it should be to them. I don't recommend tailors do this, of course, but keep in mind that many people do. Also, when I first started in Beta I ran across a dev post on that one (and forgive me if I don't get it quite right...it was a lot to take in...) that essentially said that a full #000000 black would remove all detailing from the textures entirely, making them actually quite ugly. The dev (Holo?) was more eloquent about it, but that's my 2:30 am version of it. :-)