Pelikan Brilliant Violet

[vermiculus]

Here's my current favourite purple ink - Pelikan Brilliant Violet.

 

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a375/Vermiculus/reviews/scan0009.jpg

 

Like the Pelikan Brilliant Red, it's rather undersaturated and watery, but this only helps the drying time. It's a great colour, and it's nice to have such a reliable ink so widely available.

 

Questions and feedback Appreciated.

[acfrery]

I have my Sheaffer's Intrigue (factory stub nib) loaded with this ink and I have written half a dozen letters with it on tracer paper. The result is amazing. It is a fantastic all purpose ink.

 

Alejandro

[solitaire]

I have my Sheaffer's Intrigue (factory stub nib) loaded with this ink and I have written half a dozen letters with it on tracer paper. The result is amazing. It is a fantastic all purpose ink.

 

Alejandro

 

Violet is a useful colour - good for 'wet copies' of documents.

I like the Herbin Violette Pensee for its delicate tones (low viscosity but not inclined to feather)

and the MB Violet for its powerful colour.

 

Both inks are widely available

 

 

[MiniMaupassant]

Thanks for the review!

I really love this ink; it's a juicy kind of purple, rather than an imperial or regal purple.

Perfect for broad nibs!

Leonie

[declanh]

Here's my current favourite purple ink - Pelikan Brilliant Violet.

 

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a375/Vermiculus/reviews/scan0009.jpg

 

Like the Pelikan Brilliant Red, it's rather undersaturated and watery, but this only helps the drying time. It's a great colour, and it's nice to have such a reliable ink so widely available.

 

Questions and feedback Appreciated.

 

Interesting.

I have (from lightest to darkest) Pelikan Violet, Diamine Imperial Purple, MB Violet and PR Ebony Purple

 

see comparison here. For me the Pelikan Violet is much lighter and pinkier than in your scan - i guess that comes down to how wet a writer the pen is....

 

http://www.hisdancingleg.com/temp/ink_scans.jpg

 

[PenTieRun]

Although I've generally had bad luck with Pelikan inks, the violet is a well behaved and beautiful one. A rose among thorns! Just can't figure out how Pel gets the pens nearly perfect yet the ink barely touches amateur status.

[FrankB]

PenTieRun wrote:

 

"Although I've generally had bad luck with Pelikan inks, the violet is a well behaved and beautiful one. A rose among thorns! Just can't figure out how Pel gets the pens nearly perfect yet the ink barely touches amateur status."

 

Really?! I was posted to (then West) Berlin in 1975 (Army). It was then that I discovered Pelikan and J. Herbin inks. Both of those brands have been among my standard "go to" inks since then. I have found Pel inks to be very relaible, and both utilitarian and quite lovely. I love the Violet, reviewed here, and the Brown. But I use other colors as well with no issues. I wonder how our experiences can be so different? I wish we could sit down together and play with Pel inks for a while.

[encremental]

I agree with FrankB. With the exception of the blue (dull) and the unspeakable so called red (Satan's anal seepage), Pelikan inks are sheer delight. They are also very useful in that because quite dry, they can tame gushers.

 

John

[vermiculus]

Encremental - have a look at (and disagree with!) my review on the Red. It's not that bad at all!

[nullnull10010]

Satan's anal seepage

 

This is possibly the most interesting and unique way I've ever heard an ink described! :roflmho:

[Ondina]

Is there a possibility any of you has Pelikan Brilliant Violette and Waterman's Violette so I can see them compared side by side? W. Purple is one of my daily inks and I could not praise it high enough, but I'd like to see how it compares to Pelikan's and Lamy's Violette, specialy on the fields of flow, pH and color.

[MiniMaupassant]

Is there a possibility any of you has Pelikan Brilliant Violette and Waterman's Violette so I can see them compared side by side? W. Purple is one of my daily inks and I could not praise it high enough, but I'd like to see how it compares to Pelikan's and Lamy's Violette, specialy on the fields of flow, pH and color.

 

Hi Ondina

Unfortunately I don't have the inks you mentioned, other than the Pelikan.

I have noticed that people sometimes describe Pelikan inks as being 'dry', although I haven't noticed this myself.

Leonie

[PenTieRun]

PenTieRun wrote:

 

"Although I've generally had bad luck with Pelikan inks, the violet is a well behaved and beautiful one. A rose among thorns! Just can't figure out how Pel gets the pens nearly perfect yet the ink barely touches amateur status."

 

Really?! I was posted to (then West) Berlin in 1975 (Army). It was then that I discovered Pelikan and J. Herbin inks. Both of those brands have been among my standard "go to" inks since then. I have found Pel inks to be very relaible, and both utilitarian and quite lovely. I love the Violet, reviewed here, and the Brown. But I use other colors as well with no issues. I wonder how our experiences can be so different? I wish we could sit down together and play with Pel inks for a while.

 

Ah, I probably just got a couple bad bottles and wacky packs of carts, but others have commented on its dryness, and that didn't sit well with the pens I was using at the time. My bottle of Brilliant Red was brand new and left a slimy green sheen over the feed of a couple pens...and there was a mysterious floating mass in the bottle .

 

Playing with someone else's ink does sound like a treat, though!!

[Ondina]

Thanks, MiniMaupassant. I do have a couple Pelikans and I've used them often int he past. yes, they seem drier in my pens, than the Waterman's, which flow is just wonderful. Although, Pelikan's still behave well, no complains. I was specially curious about the color/shade difference, too. Anyhow, most kind of you replying.

[mucephei]

Now that sample looks very nice. My local stationers has a selection of Pelikan inks in stock but not the Violet (plenty of Brown though....)

 

I like Imperial Purple but in my VP it's very dark; this may be the ticket for a lighter purple. Anyway I have found Pelikan ink to be well behaved based on my bottle of Turquoise purchased at the same shop.

 

At the mo, though, my VP has Noodler's Navajoe Turquoise in it....lovely dark, rich colour, the colour of tropical lagoons, excellent....

Edited October 3, 2008 by mucephei

[georges zaslavsky]

my father used pelikan green ink and was very happy of it, I must say that pelikan inks are hard to fault I will have to ask a bottle of pelikan ink for my m800 after it comes from repair.