Hey everyone, with the release of the dyes API, it has become alot easier to find dyes to match your outfit. However, I find most applications of them are rather abstract for me to use personally. I decided to make a gallery using preview pics of six armor sets (2 per armor type) of all dyes ingame currently (427 dyes) to help those who are having trouble visualizing them like me. Hopefully you will find it useful to some extent!
Gallery: http://dulfy.net/2013/12/24/gw2-dye-gallery/ (fairly image heavy so may take a few seconds to load completely)
How are dyes organized and sorted?
This is a tricky topic and I went back and forth on alot of ways to do this. I tried sorting by HSV, HSL etc but none of them were satisfactory. I really wanted to group similar colored dyes together but none of these worked. I could do this manually by eyeballing it but 427 dyes is alot and some classifications can get arbitrary. Finally, I decided to stick to the way the game sorted by hues and go in the reverse order (light -> dark) under each hue.
http://i.imgur.com/sqIt5LS.jpg
This is far from perfect and some dyes are located weirdly. An example would be the Cyanide dye from the Toxic Dye kit. It is classified as purple hue when it looks completely green.
How do I use this?
There are two ways you can go about. If you know the name of a dye you are looking for, expand the dye list and search for that dye name using ctrl + f. This will tell you which hue it is under and you can expand that hue specifically to search for it again.
If you don’t know the name of a dye but have a general idea of the color you want (i.e. something red), you can expand the red hue dyes and look for something you like visually. As I mentioned earlier, the way the game sort dyes by hues is a bit weird so there are red dyes under other hues as well.
How do I compare 2 or more dyes?
The best way to do this is to open an image in a separate tab (middle mouse button for example) and then flip through the tabs to compare the dyes & images you have picked.
What armor sets are used?
Six armor sets are used per dye, 2 sets per armor type (light, medium, heavy). 3/6 are popular gemstore armor sets and the other 3 are armor sets that I picked which I think is more fitting of the armor material (i.e. cloth, leather, metal). This should hopefully give you a good idea of how the same dye look across different armor sets
How do I find this gallery?
It is easy to find it now since it is directly linked here but in the future, you can access it by going to the Galleries & Catalog menu and look under GW2 other galleries. Here you will find other galleries that might of interest as well such as backpieces and permanent finishers.
http://i.imgur.com/XB9zubz.jpg
The site is under going redesign and revamp by the end of Jan, 2014 so hopefully it will be even easier to find stuff once the new site format launches!
Happy Holidays and feel free to put down any suggestions etc
