Tailor Archive

Of course it's nice that we got new colors, but most of them are just slight variations of the colors we had already. We have several greens, purples, reds, beige, blues, etc. I do often wonder why the designers seem to dislike nice primary colors.

So what I had been calling red, is now more a dark pink in comparison to the new red. What I had been calling purple isn't as nice a purple as the new purples.

Do most people just pick a dozen colors or so, name them, and only use those for vendor restocking? If so, which colors? It's far easier for the customers if all the clothing is consistent with a single naming conventions.

As an aside, I visited another master tailor's shop not too long ago while I was on a harvester run. None of the clothing was labeled with their color. If I was a customer, I'd just close the vendor right there and leave.

I ask my Wife. I'm color-blind and can't match for the life of me. But she's real good, and always at the next computer

Oh, and Tailoring was not my idea (recognizing my short-comings) she wanted it for her **edit** outfits

The hide/metal palettes I just name a few colours. Most of them people won't want, as they don't match anything else. Bah humbug.

The main colour palette I have a unique name for every colour. Customers that want coloured clothing seem to like the system. It means they aren't faced with three 'blue' bits of clothing, that are actually all different blues. It's easier for me too when someone presents me with something I made and wants new things to match it.

I was going to write it out in more detail at some point, incase other tailors are interested... but I'd like to get to master tailor first, so I can iron out any problems with the naming system.

you should take a screen shot of the new pallet, then use an image map and ahve the mouse over text change to the name of the color along with the column and row of the color. This was what i was planning on doing at least.

I just pick some good bright colors for my vendor stock. hehe I don't name my colors, god theres so many I couldn't possibly remember them all.

Also why would you close the vendor right there as a customer. I mean.. wouldn't you as a non-tailor examine it to see what it looked like as well? I personally don't put the color of items in my vendors, but I do in the bazaar because there are so many hundreds of articles of clothing in the bazaar. I also do very a lot of business via my vendors.

For my website, I took each of the 4 charts and labelled them in columns and rows. If someone wants black they ask for 1G, the new dark purple 18N, etc. As far as naming them for labelling clothes, for now I'm using "bright blue", "deep purple", "true red", "kelly green" and "fluorescent purple" for the darkest shades of the new colors.

Now then, is it just me or is there really no shade difference between the 2 new reds? I can see a very slight brightness difference in the crafting tool, virtually none once they are worn, but I can't really pin one down to being more red or more blue than the other. Talus has strange lighting and my houses have the general (read:BAD) lighting - anyone seeing a better difference in a better lit area?

As far as I can tell, the difference between the two reds is the ...'secondary tones' in them (I'm no sort of artist, so I don't know that those are actually called): the red we had previously was a pinkish red, whereas this one is a real, fire-engine orange-ish red. Which means, I guess, that the original one had more blue in it?

You are right the two new reds look vitually identical.

What does everybody do here when it comes to custom orders? Just wondering how you all approach the unique problem of dressing someone the way that they like.... Do you all take orders only via email... or do you set appointments and give each customer individual attention? Just gathering some market data//

Shadrow Slade

Eclipse

Sorry about my post being a little off subject... just seemed the right thread to get some feedback on this subject...

Shadrow Slade

Eclipse

I have always made names just so women can match things better...my deepest red (pre-55 patch) was 'scarlet'...blue was 'cobalt' etc. Nothing too fancy, just something to distinguish tones from each other.

I am putting a * by my new colors however. Rebel orange is what I call the orange on the bottom (is the proper tone actually), and Dark Orange is the freaky bright one. I would say do whatever you like, just make it consistent through your whole inventory so shopperscan accesorize and match properly.

I've just been compiling a list of the more popular/vibrant cloth colours, with a view to creating a colour-chart on the wall of my shop (made from headwraps or some other such low-resource item)

These, and the names I usually give them, are ...

Crystal (white)
Steel (grey)
Jet (black)
Cocoa (dark chocolate brown)
Umber (mid basic brown)
Sienna (mid sandy-brown)
Lemon (light yellow)
Sunrise (bright yellow)
Gold (golden yellow)
Amber (orange-yellow)
Sunset (bright orange)
Salmon (orange-red)
Scarlet (bright red)
Ruby (crimson red)
Garnet (dark red)
Rose (pink)
Lilac (light purple)
Amethyst (dark grey-purple)
Royale (vivid purple)
Sapphire (vivid dark blue)
Sky (mid blue)
Turquoise (greenish blue)
Peri (purplish blue)
Denim (grey-blue)
Teal (dark green-blue)
Forest (dark green)
Sage (mid grey-green)
Jade (mid-green)
Emerald (vivid green)
Peridot (vivid olive-lime green)
Lime (light lime-green)


..... this is for ease of reference for 'browsing' customers. We're creating a website at the moment, and that will use the numbered grid method on each palette.

I have noticed that on different articles of clothing the exact same color box will look a different shade. I have found a way to make sure that things go together. Use the examine box to view the item you are trying to match (either examine the item from your inventory, or get your customer to model it and examine them). With the 'examined' item right next to the crafting tool, lighting is no longer an issue. And, if the texture of the item you are making is different from what you are trying to match, you can see immediately how they will (or won't) go together. This seems to work well for me, and my customers seem to be happy, because even if I can't *exactly* match the color, at least I can come up with something that comes close, or compliments the original item. This also helps a ton when I'm working in a hurry and can't remember which color box I clicked on with the first item.

Hope this helps.