What are Your Character's Colors

[Aya]

Aya mostly wears white, black, and her favorite: red!  Not sure if these are her favorite colors or not but they make for good outfits in game!! ^^

[MikoBehnen]

Ok, so I've been think about it all day (I like colors way too much) and I think this is going to Miko's palette:

 

 

Saturated jewel tones that are vibrant but still dark enough that she could blend into the background if she needed to.  :love:

[Zyrusticae]

T'rahnu has always been black & orange, for two reasons: vibrant orange really stands out in a crowd and is extraordinarily warm and energetic as a color, while black helps to create contrast with that orange allowing it to stand out even more than it already does. T'rahnu has always been an outgoing, eccentric, confident-bordering-on-arrogant individual so this combination works perfectly for her purposes.

 

Unfortunately, the lack of two-tone dyeing means I've mostly just stuck to black-on-yellow-skin instead. What a shame.

 

Generally speaking, when I pick out a character's colors I am thinking more along the lines of what looks good and makes sense for that character to have a preference for as opposed to consciously thinking about the associations and connotations of a particular color set. Usually said connotations end up working for the character anyway, but that's more of a happy coincidence than anything else.

 

Now, if only Squeenix would let us dye secondary (and tertiary) colors...

[Blue]

Jet'a Vann: Ink Blue

 

Blue: Midnight Blue / Royal Blue

 

Vincent: Pure White / Rolanberry Red

 

Chiara: Snow White / Metallic Gold

 

Kujh'a: Dalamud Red / Sooth Black

 

Dylise: Grape Purple / Sooth Black

 

Clive: Snow White / Halatali Yellow

 

Valeria: Undyed Maelstrom equipment, or Dalamud Red / Jet Black

[Knight Kat]

Kiht Jakkya's ceremonial colors are her family colors. Light icy blues and darker amber yellows. The blues represents ice which is Menphina's element. The yellow represents amber which is the lifeblood of the trees in the forest. People don't see her wearing these colors often because they make her stand out like a sore thumb.

 

Kiht's personal favorites are dark greens and black. Deepwood green and black helps blend with the Black Shroud; especially, at night.

[Roen]

Anyroad! I'm honestly intrigued by a lot of these answers. A few have delved into the reasons for their colors, a few have simply listed them. Neither is wrong, of course, it's just the color lists set me to wondering. Do you choose those colors because they simply look nice, or is there an underlying meaning to them?

 

Oops! I edited my original answer to include reasons.

[Ha'uruh Nunh]

Howl is mostly black, gray, and (woad) blue.

 

Black, well, everything looks good in black.  Gray was a subconscious imitation of Warren, which was funny because then Warren out-and-out stole Howl's gray ensemble for the Grindstone.  Blue?  Not sure.  I originally wanted him to wear warm desert colors, but maybe I just like how the blue looks with his gold hair.

 

He also has purple eye(s) so it's hard to match to those.

[Delilah Scythewood]

Lili has usually been warm, earthy colors: Brown, greens, deep reds and oranges. Her outfits are simply a reflection of her current mood

[crowmeleon]

 

 

Faolan definitely has a very earthy brown, red, gold, and green color scheme. Which I realized is fittingly festive for this time of year.

[Eva]

Lavender, silver, black, white.  Sometimes blue.  Sometimes gray.  Sometimes green.  Depends on a lot of things but I think she feels black is slimming and usually feels most comfortable in it, maybe with lavender or indigo taking a close second.  She likes yellow well enough too.  The only color she really doesn't care for I think is red/orange, but she likes sunsets so who knows?  I tend to use a lot of the metallic silver dye, and the lavender purple in mixing and matching outfits along with the black and white.

[Afghan Vet 2009]

....Black with a bit of White

[DrPoxo]

Primarily greens with splashes of blues and usually nothing bright. Mainly due to favorite colors being in that range. Though going in to color psychology I have known those colors tend to be calming colors and Matahina tends to being a calm and collected character that takes a lot to outburst. Within ffxiv, given the chance I usually die everything adamantoise green.

[Shizuka]

Lalah is quite a bit of the blues, particularly the blue-greens:

 

 

or

 

 

Depending on how bright she's feeling. But she also occasionally steps into the pale pinks, almost always mixed with yet more blues.

 

 

She likes the colors of the sea and the forest, but sadly the forest greens simply don't look as nice on her. And the pinks make her feel pretty and girlish now and again.

[D'ly]

Greens! Browns! Dark purples! Greys? Greys. Rusticy.

 

 

[Lillini]

 

Except the dark maroon would be a rich red. Noxaelius usually prefers to wear clothes that are black/dark grey with red accents.

 

Black: Usually associated with darkness, the night, and generally evil things. He isn't exactly an outright evil character, but he definitely veers towards the darker side of things.

 

Red: The color of blood. He's very destructive and sadistic, as well as violent. He also associates rich red with luxury, and the man loves his luxury.

 

Orange: The color of his beloved flames and explosions. He is extremely fond of fire as well as fire magic, and considers the element "his domain".

 

Grey/Light Gold: His skin tone and eye color respectively.

[Devereau]

My character tends to gravitate towards anything highly saturated and solid. Dulled, soft hues or patterns are very unappealing. 

 

The two most dominant colours in his wardrobe would be purple (either lavender, or a royal, deep purple) and red (predominantly true or blood red, occasionally wine.) This may also be accented with golds, greenish blues, whites or magenta (think Rolanberry.)

 

It is a bit of an atypical combination, but part of that is what I like. They are unnatural to be in unison, and purple is a colour or rarity in itself. It is not something that often occurs naturality in nature, and as such, is held in regal regards. He tends to be strange, noble in stature and eloquent, so it seemed more rich, elaborate colours and fabrics would be suiting.

[Volk]

Ameline can be examined through soft pastel colors. Colors like coral and peach show her connection to life, humanity (a relative term in a fantasy setting), and affection.

 

Earthy tones like gray, brown/sepia show a side of her that stays grounded and constant through hardship or unforgiving circumstances. Not one to run off for revenge or to hurt others, but not one to back down from adversity either.

 

EDIT: In fact, just by looking at the avatar over here <------- you can see most of the choices in her color palette.

[Liliana Nazareth]

Ooh, yay! Colors!

 

 

Lily? Errr...hmm. I think most of her gear sets revolve around a shade of red. Dalamud, Wine, or the Maelstrom red (that color that you can't quite match anything to. Curses!). It's always offset her white hair and lilac eyes. That being said, I think red is also a "power color" for her -- often noted as a color of passion, I've noticed that even I do better on the jobs that are often swathed in red!

 

Her other colors revolve around snow/pure white, and surprisingly, Nophica Green. White can get a little frustrating to work with due to the fact that she has white hair, so Lily personally, I've noticed, tends to look better in fashion choices that have a bit more black or grey to them when choosing to dye something white. Nophica Green is on one set and one set only--her Dragoon set, in which she likes to fancy herself as a "Shroud Valkyrie". The name isn't actually given ICly, but it's something I like to call her. Plus, she looks good in it! ...And she'd be killed if she tried to wear Cactuar Green. :B

[Zhavi]

Bright, obnoxious, harsh.

 

 

Green is Zhi's favorite color. She has utterly no sense of fashion, which can be hard for me because I want everything to match. I typically keep at least one item of green (usually shoes, which she has a favorite, beat-up pair she's almost always wearing, particularly because even used shoes are expensive so she's very, very frugal about them) on her, and the rest is random. She gravitates towards blues and neutrals, besides the green, though she's not conscious of this.

 

I wanted to keep her bright, on the edge between cheerful and overbearing. Brightness can hurt as much as it can cheer, and her manic states definitely trend towards obnoxiousness over amusement. And when she's dark, it's more of a muddled orange; she doesn't stay down for long, but while she's there she's still jarring and annoying, with just that hint of liveliness and hopelessness.

[ProvaDiServo]

I never really get to dye anything because most of her gear is undyable but Rae

is typically all blue white black.

 

On the occasion she's working it's black,purple,or red.

 

If there was a full range palette editor on gear I'd be abit more free with color choices.

[Gegenji]

This may be a bit of a derail (in my own thread, what?) but I really like that Design Seeds site and the images folks are using from it. It not only provides some lovely color combinations, it gives an image to match them to. It's quite lovely.

 

 

For Chachan, maybe? There's the lack of blue, but the light green adds to the feelgood color combination I'm going for. The dark... brown? (green? black? What is that?) serves as the nice offsetting color I was wanting for all the brightness anyway, along with the darker green of his hair.

[MikoBehnen]

It's an evil site that will claim your soul 

 

(I love it... I use it all the time for work inspirations)

[Melody]

Oh, I love all the palettes!

 

Hmmm, maybe this for Melody?

 

[Roen]

Aaaah! Palette things! Makes my inner decorator smile.

 

 

This was the closest palette I can come up with. But I really think the picture itself is rather apt for her too, fallen petals on hard stony ground.

[Salinas]

 

At first, I thought of a palette with more earthy tones and muted colours. But that isn't Caelia's personality at all! Huu... after a little thought I was reminded of a bouquet. A bunch of flowers varying in different hues but each of them complimenting one another. So here you go, a vibrant lookin' palette for the flower child.

 

Green: The colour green has many meaning depending on the shade. The lighter shade symbolizes her how inexperienced she can be while the darker shade is how jealous she can easily get. Most of her wardrobe consists of the colour green. Green is also the colour for healing and nature. Caelia is a healer hailing from the Shroud. Go figure.

 

Purple: Represents her recent luxurious lifestyle now that she lives with Noxaelius? Hehe! No, no, no. Uhm.. It's the colour of her hair. Purple is associated with magic, empathy, and imagination. Also read that the stained glass pictures found in churches use the colour purple to assist in prayers and meditation.

 

Pink: Even though it's not a colour she won't ever wear on her person. Pink is probably the colour I would use to describe her. Associated with innocence, unconditional love, and compassion. In a negative view pink symbolizes naivety, neediness, being weak, and immaturity. Every one of these I've noted fits the bill nicely. Too bad she wouldn't be seen wearing pink.. heh.