Inky T O D - Have You Ever Had An Ink Change Color After It's On The Paper?

[amberleadavis]

So, the perfect example of this is ESSRI....it starts out bright blue and dries a dark blue...overtime it becomes black-blue (not blue-black). Other than ESSRI, what inks have you used which changed color over time?

 

 

Photos are always welcome.

 

 

[amberleadavis]

Personally, I found that MontBlanc Hitchcock starts out as bright red and turns brown over time. I'll try and find the photos.

[The Blue Knight]

Shade dramatically yes but truly color no. e.g. quink BB turns to Teal

[WOBentley]

All of Pharmicists inks and Akkerman #10.

[Uncle Red]

Iron Gall inks. R&K verdigris

[Tanzanite]

Iron Gall inks. R&K verdigris

What change have you seen in Verdigris?

[Coop]

My ink experience is fairly limited, but the first bottle I bought, Hero 232 Blue-black, changes quite a lot while drying and then a little over time. It starts out a deep dark blue when wet, then dries to a blueish dark grey. But turns to what I call a "classic blue-black" over time.

 

Love the color, but few of my pens will actually write with it. My Jinhao X750 works fine, my Hero 529 has no issues with it (even when not using it for weeks on end, storing it tip-up and still it writes immediately on first try. Not bad for a $2.70 pen). But my other pens don't like this ink very much...

[_Stormin_]

Not yet, but I did have a bottle of Rome Burning show up on Wednesday, so I will in the near future.

[MusterMark]

Occasionally, Waterman Mysterious Blue looks a bit more teal a few days later. Sometimes, though, I wonder if that's just because I've forgotten the teal undertones in that ink, which are present but subtle.

[lapis]

My Waterman blue-black goes down a bit bluish blackish but within minutes ends up as a turquoise grey. Same thing for Parker's. Maybe they are one and the same ink but that doesn't peeve me in the least because I don't like that colour anyhow (especially as a "blue-black")....

http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu264/peli46/5Blue-Blacks_2.jpg

croak

[DanF]

Diamine Ochre starts out orange and then drys to a darker brown.

 

Syo-Ro starts a deep blue and drys to a grayish green blue.

 

Neither moves much in hue after they are dry though.

 

Dan

[DaveBj]

The Online Brown that I found went down almost black, to the point where I had to look at a line written in Quink Black to tell any difference, but a day later it was a nice dark brown.

[ethernautrix]

The Waterman Mysterious Blue changes from a gorgeous dark blue to a pretty teal fairly quickly, and that would be most excellent if I wanted a pretty teal. Sigh.

[FLZapped]

Parker Quink Blue-Black turns a sickly green after a while. It may be reacitng with the Chlorine in the paper....Don't know, but I stopped using that ink quite some time ago because of this.

 

-Bruce

[ac12]

Cross/Pelikan blue out of my Parker 51 Special, would go on the paper a nice medium blue, but dries to a lighter blue, sometimes looking a bit washed out.

 

I think this has to do with ink flow of the pen, and how much of that ink is absorbed into the paper.

Because I have an Esterbrook where the same Cross ink would be a medium/dark and stay that way.

 

Sheaffer Skrip red would sometimes go on a nice clean red, then dries to a darker red.

I have not figured out how and when this happens.

[amberleadavis]

Did I mention General of the Armies? Wow.

[volkswagenfox21]

Parker Quink Blue-Black. I actually really like the colour it turns into, but I just don't like the properties of the ink in any of my pens I've tried it in.

Edited October 28, 2014 by volkswagenfox21

[Tas]

Diamine China Blue, becomes a soft chalky blue once dry. Yummy . . .

[SeeksAdvice]

Any I-G ink.

Iroshizuku Tsuki-Yo out of a very, very wet writer. Also, finally got a red sheen out of the stuff with said pen.

[Fox Point]

Levenger Amethyst changes purple as it dries, thouh I have forgotten whether it becomes more or less blue. It is definitely a change you can watch happen.