A means to dye and paint our gear

I absolutely love the crafting system in this game, but from the moment I made my first set of simple clothing I was disappointed by how difficult it was to make strong gear that i like the look of. I have this issue with tools and firearms as well, spending well over four hours trying to gather kyrosiphon ingots so i could use a material that looks good and performs well when making a revolver. I like that crafted gear takes on the colors and patterns of its components, but that makes it difficult to make gear that looks good and performs well. Unless i want a pink/purpley pistol, I will never be able to get the most out of my materials. So I propose this:

Adding a system which allows us to color our equipment and dye our clothes.

Refined pigments and paints exist in the game, but they don't do much outside of being generic crafting resources. Adding a system for coloring equipment would give them a use, encouraging people to seek out rare and beautiful pigments throughout the realms. That way, people could make their weapons and clothes out of statistically competent resources without having to suffer through the colors or patterns not being to their liking.

Admittedly, I don't know how difficult this would be to implement, or if it would go against the devs' view on game balance, but as Nightingale is not specifically oriented towards PVP, I feel as though this would be a harmless and delightful addition to the game which could further improve upon the wonderfully complex crafting system.