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I visited this awsume tailor ones and she had all of her clothing names colored. It really helped me pick out what I wanted in the vendor. Then as a non-tailor it never bothered me that inmy invenotry they were colord.

I did however always have the though, how would you know if something has sockets or not...

But anways it never bothered me.

Just recently I started coloring the stuff I make and my inventory is just a mass of colors names and it's annoying.

So I am caught and not sure whats best practice. I remmeber after visiting this awsume tailor I visited a tailor who did not do it and i was sooooo disapointed. I really felt those color names helped me look way faster.

Any thoughts?

What I do for my naming is to just describe the item... but using different colors in the description itself I found to be a distraction more than a benefit.

example: Twi'lek Lekku Wrap - Forest Green (4 Sockets)

It lets me know at a glance what is in the inventory, or looking at a sales e-mail what I need to restock. Also, leaving the name first I think is easier for the customer to find what they want when they sort. Most come in wanting a particular item, not a color.

Just my observations.

well what I plan on doing is what i saw this person do which i loved.

Green Skirt by Name

Green Pants by Name

Blue Pants by name

So when you sorted by name you automatically sorted by color

Then I would use sort-by-type if i wanted a particular item

I have never bothered, I started without, and when I already had about 200 items on my vendor it would just have felt weird to do it a different way.

If I had to do it again though, I would just use a number, like the person above - green 14, violet 12 etc.

It depends how keen you are on selling coloured items. People that love coloured clothing will pick the tailor with the consistant colour naming system. People that want black, or are happy to just buy things that look about the same, will buy whatever you name the items. Especially if you're aiming at the entertainer market, I'd suggest a proper colour system. It will win you customers.

There's also the issue of ease for you. It takeseffort to sort out a system that really works for colour names, but it's a lot easier in the long run. It means you know exactly which colour sold from the vendor, and it's easy to make matching bits when someone needs them. Remember that in six months time, when that shirt has passed on through three different owners, the chances of you remembering which shade you selected is very small. It saves a lot of trying to colour match when you have a system.

I'd advise against actually making the clothing name in a colour. Some colours are near-impossible to read against the background, and there is more than one background colour people could be using. You'd also need the hex codes for every colour, which'd be hellish to work out.

I use it for waypoints, but not items. I sell too many shades of similar colors to be able to do it accurately, at least without driving myself crazy. Maybe if I had a good chart sitting next to my computer so I could pin down every shade in our palettes and make sure I used them every time, I'd consider it, but it still seems like an awful lot of work just for a pretty vendor display. You can help them match things just as easily by assigning names to the colors you use the most, without having to memorize hex codes for each one.

I suppose i could screen cap the color pallets, print them out in color and put letters and number down the sides and track the color "names" that way as some of you suggestted. This is some serious work

I have thought sence yesterday about maybe color PART of the name. Maybe the first color word is the color then the rest is white.

I personally am BIG about stuff matching up so I guses I will have to make a chart, and if I am gonna bother doing that then I need to name the cloths the right name so I suppose it won't be much of a bother to color the names at THAT point lol.

Or just propose the clothes in the same tones of blue, purple etc on your vendor, it's what I do.

that is a good idea!

Because the grids shift, doing a numbering system for the colors is nearly impossible. So I do a very unscientific method. For example, the color in the far bottom right is "purple". If I do a lighter version of it I call it ltpurple-3. The -3 means that I count three boxes to the left from purple. That way I can always match it easily if necessary. There are also some colors I just don't use like the "puke green" and "mustard yellow"

You can resize the crafting window so that the colors line up the same each time. I took a screenshot, blew it up and printed it out on my color printer. Then I marked the ~30-40 colors I have named, so I can remember which is which. I haven't named many of the intermediate shades, but have done most of the darkest shades. I label all my items with the color - it's something I did from the very beginning. It's not so hard to do once you get in the habit.

I'm trying to do the same with the wookiee and leather palettes but I've just started on that. And I doubt I'll do anything with the metal colors, until that time whennecklace crafting is fixed. :-)

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