If You Could Design An Ink Sample Package....

May 3, 2014

I've seen a lot of ink sample packages on Goulet, and I want to ask people, if you could "design" your own ink sample package, which inks would be in it? The sample package can have a theme, or just be your favorites.

LIMIT: 5 inks

COLORS: any you want

PRICE: none, just 5 inks you like

I think there are a lot of inks that are pretty out there. I've read a lot of threads about favorite inks, etc. This thread is asking about an ink sample package you would create. Theme ideas include: a certain color, shading, cool colors, hot colors, child-like colors, etc.

EDIT: Maybe design isn't a good word to use. I mean package, or put together.

Edited May 3, 2014 by legitimate3

May 3, 2014

Something like MB's shoe design: bottle well-built, box and sponges, too. Easy to open and close, excellent lid. Small pamphlet on infos, good information on the bottle and box, like best-before date, Ident.Nr, bar code, .... and all that in 8 languages! Also 60 ml is IMO good. 50-80 would also be okay.

Mike

May 3, 2014

Mine would be periwinkle - the light blue/purple found in the Crayola crayons boxes. I love that light blue/purple and just seeing it brings back memories of childhood. The inks that I would put in that sampler would be:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/redfountainpens/noodlerspolarblue_zps838be1b5.jpghttp://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/redfountainpens/1a3b9f78-dcc9-4ed7-b686-ad83f49786f7_zps404c9d22.jpghttp://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/redfountainpens/noodlerspolarblue_zps838be1b5.jpghttp://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/redfountainpens/ajisai_zps26bd8e82.jpghttp://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/redfountainpens/myositis_zps9c667f70.jpg

Of these, I think that the J Herbin comes the closest.

May 3, 2014

Mine would be periwinkle - the light blue/purple found in the Crayola crayons boxes. I love that light blue/purple and just seeing it brings back memories of childhood. The inks that I would put in that sampler would be:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/redfountainpens/noodlerspolarblue_zps838be1b5.jpghttp://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/redfountainpens/1a3b9f78-dcc9-4ed7-b686-ad83f49786f7_zps404c9d22.jpghttp://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/redfountainpens/noodlerspolarblue_zps838be1b5.jpghttp://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/redfountainpens/ajisai_zps26bd8e82.jpghttp://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/redfountainpens/myositis_zps9c667f70.jpg

Of these, I think that the J Herbin comes the closest.

I'd by that deffo. I'm a big fan of blues.

May 4, 2014

This is something that a friend and I were playing about with recently - though we took a topic and each made a set, then decided which best fitted the topic.

The first was "Les Misérables" and this is what I came up with:

It would also serve as a starter set for another friend who we're trying to convert - a blue, a black, a red, and a couple of fun colours!

Edited May 4, 2014 by CharlieTurtle

May 4, 2014

I admit I've thought about this exact question before, and I may or may not have spent an embarrassing number of hours playing with the Goulet Swab Shop...

If I were to package five inks, they would have to be these, my 'working' favorites. There are more spectacular inks like Kon-Peki or Rouge Hematite that I ink up now and then, but at the end of the day these are the ones I keep coming back to.

http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t331/InkandPaper88/5samples_zpsc0ac423b.jpg

May 4, 2014

I would create "brand packs." These would be packs of various colors for one brand per shipment. For instance, an Iroshizuku pack of five one month. The next, Diamine, then Waterman, and so on. Then, after exhausting the brands, start back around again using different color within those same brands.

That's what I'd like to see.

Another idea - inks by regions - a European pack, a Japanese pack, an American pack, etc. Integrating other themes would keep you going for a good while also, e.g., blues from Europe, reds from Japan, etc.