Is it possible to combine dyes to get a color mixture?

[mibby]

Such as mixing magenta and orange together to get the closest supported map dye color? Or alternatively, mixing a main dye color with a darkening/lightening agent so you have a lighter/darker dye color piece? As holding right click to dye some pixels lighter / darker with the feather/coal tools has a chance to run over the area twice, darkening or lightening a pixel twice when you may only want a single shade change.

[Fupery]

Doing this would mean there would need to be a custom Orange-Magenta item; since this would either look like an orange or magenta dye in the inventory, I think it would make painting more laborious (you'd have to hover over and read each dye to see what shade it is).

I'll see if I can improve the feather and coal right-click, is there any particular time when painting that they do this more often?

[mibby]

It mainly comes down to when players need to shade/lighten large areas such as terrain. Instead of having to tediously right click every pixel, they hold it down and paint it darker/lighter. Just when you overlap the area twice in the same right click held instance, it changes the color again.