Do you match ink colour to pen colour?

[Col]

Hi Everyone

 

Lots of people seem to do this - I'd like to find out just how many!

 

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Col

[maia]

Wasn't there a thread similar to this? I think so, though I'm not 100% sure.

Edited January 18, 2007 by maia

[KCat]

i'm getting less picky though.

[Bradley]

No. Otherwise, a lot of people would be using only black and blue pens, I should think.

[jpolaski]

Ugh, I try REEALLLY hard not to... but the OCD in me always seems to pull me that way. Case in point. I have a Parker "51" aero in Midnight Blue, and I was trying out some PR Avacado...it drove me nuts, and I had to clean it out and refill it with... Watermans Blue Black. I now have a Hunter Green Parker "51" sitting in my case that I'm trying hard not to fill up with it, as I already have the Avacado in 2 pens. Oddly enough, it seems to depend on the pen though. I have no problem throwing whatever color I want in my Eversharp Skyline (see my avatar) or my Lamy Al-Star.... maybe it's an open nib thing?

[Blacksheep95]

What colour would I put in Chrome plated pens? :blink:

[sonia_simone]

I like Noodler's Golden Brown to match the brown bits in my Pelikan White Tortoise, and I usually but not always have a green ink in the green Phileas, because it's easy to remember. Other than that I don't have the discipline. (Plus as Bradley says, I'd use a lot more black ink than I would like.)

[O'Hare]

I used to match ink color to pen color when I didn't use my pens at work as much as I do now. I only have a few favorite ink colors so I don't match so much anymore.

[kissing]

If the colour of the pen and the ink, that's a real bonus

However, my top priority is using an ink that works well in the pen.

 

Sometimes using the ink that is the same colour as the pen is not a good match

[Renzhe]

It's more like I avoid using colors in pens that don't agree with them. For example, blue ink in a green Phileas kind of bugs me, but blue ink in a black or steel pen does not. Black (ink or pen) goes with anything.

[Col]

What colour would I put in Chrome plated pens?

Heh - I did consider something like that as a choice:

• Your pens are all too shiny to care

I also considered...

• You believe fountain pens are a serious business, and deplore the gratuitous posting of frivolous polls

...but I thought maybe it was a bit too much of a mouthful.

 

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Col

[Greg]

Great thread. I can't HELP but try to match the colour. Its not always easy but if I pick up a blue pen I can't have it writing in any other colour.

 

Exceptions include my everyday pen, which is a vintage Conway Stewart 45 which is shiny black hard rubber, but filled with Penman Mocha. The excuse being that the pen has a sort of dark brown feel to it, even though it hasn't oxidised yet.

 

Also, in my everyday cigar case, is a maroon Skyliner with a very fine point filled with red Platignum (for notes on typed text) and an old 'The Burnham' which is marbled green and black (wonderful flexy nib) which ends up being used as a spare and is filled with - you've guessed, a green/black mixture of Lamy green and Quick black.

 

I have even bought pens of a particular colour to be able to use ink of that colour (although my yellow Herbin is used in a green Mabie Todd Swan. One day I will find a suitably yellow pen!).

 

 

Greg

[helius]

For me, it all depends on the pen itself. When a pen comes up in rotation, I'll take it in my hands, look at it, then look at all my bottles of ink to find one that's "speaking" to me at the moment. I also do the reverse some times, deciding on an ink first before rummaging through my box of pens for one that's screaming out to be inked with the particular ink.

 

More often than not, I end up with pens inked with colours that are in the same region of the colour spectrum. However, there are pens that just scream for contrasting colours, like my dark blue lacquered dupont that would take nothing but vibrant red inks. :)9 :)9 :)9

[HesNot]

This question comes up every so often - for me ink color is generally determined by function. i.e. I have certain colors for editing documents (red and green primarily), use various blues for general note taking, and Noodlers black for signing checks and anything else where permanence is an issue. The particular functional task also determines the nib, which for me then drives the pen choice. EF nibs for document editing, Fine or medium for note taking. While I have pens that are stainless, red, green, blue, burgundy and black - they may or may not have the correct nib/barrel color to match up with the ink that is best suited for a particular purpose. My red and green pens, for example have fairly juicy fine to medium nibs, not the best for document editing. My EF nibs are on two black and one blue pen.

 

About the only pens that are currently loaded with ink that matches their barrel color are blue pens with blue ink, my cedar blue "51", and azure blue vacumatic and a slate blue Waterman Expert 2000.

[Carrie]

For most of my pens I don't bother to match the ink colour to the pen, but there are a couple which just seem to want a nice match. My Conway Stewart Duro is the woodgrain ebonite one and so that pen just seemed to be shouting out for a matching ink and writes nicely when filled with PR Shoreline Gold. I also think that my Cedar Blue Vac 51 is particularly suited to Diamine Prussian Blue.

[Stephen-I-am]

What colour would I put in Chrome plated pens? :blink:

I like putting green, blue-black, or black in silver pens, but not a vibrant blue for some reason.

 

Stephen

[rbbrock]

I sometimes match inks, sometimes do not. I guess I match if the mood strikes me and it is convenient to do so. My Pel 805 blue/black stripe is matched most of the time just because I love blue ink. My Pel 400 tortoise will be matched after I get home tonight as it is just screaming out for some Noodler's Walnut However, I have it at work ATM filled with Florida Blue, and it doesn't bother me in the least. (Although, as you can see from my poll, the only reason it has blue in it is because I forgot to bring a pen to work today and this one just arrived before lunch, so I had no choice but to use the ink that came in the same order.)

[OldGriz]

Does spending about 30 minutes with Sam at Pendemonium at the Philly Show trying to decide on just the right color for my new Burgundy Vacumatic count as a YES

BTW, the color ended up being Visconti Burgundy... and I am real happy with it even though I am not a big fan of reds...

[sonia_simone]

Ooh, nice!

[Col]

Does spending about 30 minutes with Sam at Pendemonium at the Philly Show trying to decide on just the right color for my new Burgundy Vacumatic count as a YES     

Depends on whether you were looking for a nicely contrasting colour, or for one in the same tonal range...

 

BTW, the color ended up being Visconti Burgundy

...gotcha!

 

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