Orange Ink

[moksaa]

Hello!

 

What would be a shade of orange in between De Atramentis Mahatma Gandhi and Diamine Pumpkin? I've looked at hundreds of swatches and can't seem to be able to decide on one.

 

Thank you!

[lapis]

Omas?

[fabri00]

Omas?

is a limited edition ink of a company not existing anymore ..... It could be really a difficult challenge to get it .....

[HalloweenHJB]

Here's a selection of some of my orange inks. Do any look close to what you're looking for?

 

[gregamckinney]

Great resource, HalloweenHJB. Any sheen to any of those oranges? I get a _little_ from Kin-Mokusei, but not much.

Best Regards, greg

[lapis]

What a collection! I'm at a loss of words. Still, I'll stick to Omas' Orange. Or CdA's Electric Orange.... Not too red, not too yellow...........

Sazerac is very delicious!

[HalloweenHJB]

Great resource, HalloweenHJB. Any sheen to any of those oranges? I get a _little_ from Kin-Mokusei, but not much.

Best Regards, greg

 

 

The Japanese inks like Sailor Apricot, Kin-mokusei, and Bungubox Hachimitsu are super sheeny —at least on Tomoe River paper. The others, not much at all. They also tend to sheen more in vintage flex-nib pens (the greater flow allows the ink to pool more). Cheers, HJB

[HalloweenHJB]

What a collection! I'm at a loss of words. Still, I'll stick to Omas' Orange. Or CdA's Electric Orange.... Not too red, not too yellow...........

Sazerac is very delicious!

 

I know that I'm weird, but I prefer my oranges on both ends of the spectrum (yellow-orange and red-orange) rather than right-in-the middle medium orange. But it's great that everyone enjoys their own preferences!

[moksaa]

Thank you everyone, and wow - that is quite a collection of orange inks, HalloweenHJB!

I've made myself an orange ink by mixing Diamine Pumpkin and Amber. It's quite nice still annoyingly close to Pumpkin. I'm gonna go get me some samples of some of the inks mentioned here!

Thanks again.

[Jan2016]

You may take a look here:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/279381-inky-t-o-d-color-swatches-orange-please-post-your-pictures-and-tell-us-your-thoughts/page-1

[Jan2016]

and for more autumn style colors and oranges....

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/328406-out-comes-the-orange-ink/

[Jan2016]

or...

mix 50% deAtramentis Mahatma Ghandi with 50% Diamine Pumpkin....

[Tas]

Here's a selection of some of my orange inks. Do any look close to what you're looking for?

 

[titevm]

Here's a selection of some of my orange inks. Do any look close to what you're looking for?

 

Wow! Thanks, now I have to get me a collection like this haha

[HalloweenHJB]

If I get any more Orange inks, I'm going to need a professional intervention...

 

But here is a visual for the Orange lovers out there:

 

I have loved Monteverde Fire Opal for a while now. Then then came Copper Noir. Not exact identical twins, but very close:

 

 

Close-up:

 

 

Fire Opal is still a touch brighter, while Copper Noir is a bit more brooding. I love them both, to be honest.

[amberleadavis]

Halloween is definitely our go-to for orange!

[Green Ink]

Halloween, thank you! Great collection and posts. You've put me in the mood. Going to go ink up some oranges. I'm in Arizona. I think I'll wander out the back yard and pick some too!

[HalloweenHJB]

Halloween, thank you! Great collection and posts. You've put me in the mood. Going to go ink up some oranges. I'm in Arizona. I think I'll wander out the back yard and pick some too!

 

 

Oh, the natural oranges of the desert southwest... It's like candy to my eyes.

[Green Ink]

Dear Halloween and other fellow orange fans - Please bring your orange ink to my backyard and let's feast!

[bob_hayden]

I stumbled upon this thread by accident. Many of the ink product lines from the major pen manufacturers do not even include an orange ink, and many of the oranges out there are hard to read, so I was surprised to find much interest. But when I checked my own warehouse (and old records) I discovered that I actually have (or have had) quite a few. Here are some for your amusement. BTW, as noted, the headings and annotations are made with a mix of old USA Sheaffer inks. I recently bought a bottle of #22 Blue-Black from the 1950s that turned out paler than I had hoped, so I added a little Sheaffer Black from a couple generations later (but still from the USA). It's the best match I have seen for the blue-black in my memories of long ago.

The first four inks were in cartridges, the rest from bottles.

1. Manuscript orange I only have because it came in an assortment. It is a bit on the yellow side of orange. This is my first example what what I have found to be typical of bargain oranges -- they are so pale that I would hate to inflict a one-page letter written with them on another human. There are more examples in my notes from the past, but either the inks are no longer available or I do not have any on hand (and do not plan to order any more). These might be useful for highlighting or for multi-ink sketches such as we often see on FPN. Because some of the samples here may not be very visible in the scan, I have numbered the lines for reference.

2. Thornton orange is similar in legibility but a bit less yellow.

3. Slovenian Sheaffer Orange is the palest orange I could use for writing. I think they managed this by adding a bit more red.

4. Pelikan Apricot is AFAIK a long discontinued color that seems to have gone in another direction to increase legibility -- make the color a bit dirty. I would rate this not quite dirty enough. This cartridge is so old one might wonder about color accuracy but the color here matches my notes and my memory. The reason it is still around is because it was too pale to use.

5. Diamine Blaze Orange attacks the legibility question with brightness. Here I put it in a pen with a nib marked "F" but it turned out to be more like XF which makes it look less legible. I think it is more legible than the above in a comparable nib width.

6. Sheaffer USA King's Gold is pretty borderline as an orange but it illustrates that even yellow ink can be quite legible if you add enough dirt.

7. Private Reserve Orange Crush applies dirt to a more orange ink with good effect on legibility without looking quite as tacky as King's Gold. (To me the latter looks like a child's toy made of plastic of a color to suggest gold, but only very discreetly. OTOH, I know of no ink that does a better imitation, and at least it is legible, so I do respect Sheaffer's effort.)

8. Private Reserve Tangerine Dream adds a bit of pink and is quite legible. Unfortunately, it is the only ink of the twelve to bleed through to the other side of the page.

9. Diamine Peach Haze is a similar color, bleeds less, and has a white sheen to it -- the only ink here for which I observed sheen of any hue. I have had this for a while and I noted what looked like a chalky precipitate on all four sides of the square cross-section bottle. I shook the bottle quite a bit and much of it remained and the ink foamed. It still wrote fine and the color matches my notes from when it was new. So, I like how it looks on paper, but I would hesitate to put it in an expensive or irreplaceable pen.

10. Herbin Orange Indien adds both dirt and red to make a very legible ink -- more so than this XF nib might suggest. (The pen was already inked when I decided to do these tests.) Whatever color you call it this has long been my #1 "orange", though I can't say I use a lot of any orange ink.

11. Diamine Vermillion is an extreme example of adding more red and it is redder than some of the inks called "red". (Red inks from Europe often look orangey to me.)

12. Diamine Ancient Copper is an interesting color. Depending on the paper, pen, or light, it can appear a dark orange, dark red, brown, or even purple. It is very legible. Here we might think of it as what happens if you add lots of dirt.

 

Levenger Blazing Sunset, Private Reserve Tangerine Dream, and Diamine Peach Haze are all brightly fluorescent in real life but this is not captured in the scan.

 

http://statland.org/PenPix/Orange2.jpg