Perfered School or Work Ink Color.

[emrecan]

Hi

My favorite that i use it everywhere is Waterman Havana Brown!!!Great looking ink and have very nice intensity.

 

Take Care

Emrecan

[James Pickering]

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[Bill in San Diego]

I voted for other because until recently I used nothing but black. Either Pelikan black or Rotring cartridge black. And I still like black but sice the Noodlers Widow Maker arrived I've been using it for everything from writing in my engineering notebook to adding note to the Christmas cards my wife has been writing. I also have the Green Marine but the widow maker is my new favorite.

 

Bill

[Glenn-SC]

While I always carry a pen with Noodlers Blue or Aurora Black fr when I have to "Sign" things, I also always carry another pen with a brighter highlight color. A number of pens are inked in these brighter colors and I tend to use those more.

[georgem]

I voted for black, because it's the color of ink that I use most frequently at work.

 

That said, there is a journal of daily entries that I must fill out, which shows almost every color of fountain pen ink that I have. There's still one which I haven't yet brought to work.

 

I use a different color each day. Besides being fun, it has proven practical when trying to match an entry to a particular transaction. The color tells me which is the most likely group of entries in which to find the item.

 

However, I do it strictly for fun.

[Titivillus]

You specified school or work ink, so I chose black. In everyday life, I'd choose purple or green of course. I'm not big on blue-blacks. Haven't found one that ages well. I like Noodler's Permanent Black for it's waterproofness (is that a word?).

Leslie,

have you tried MB blue/black. So far I have found it to age very nicely to a dark blue moving almost to a slate blue color. And with the ferrogallic content it should be around for awhile!

 

 

Kurt H

[aircraft_electrician]

I answered black, but not because I prefer to use it. Being in the Air Force, the government insists that we use only black ink for official documents. Gone are the days of "blue or black ink only".

 

Unfortunately, most of my writing at work is done with pencil. As an aircraft electrician, we document the FAA required aircraft maintenance records with pencil only, except the warning symbols, which must be in red pencil or ink.

 

So, I carry a red pencil and a black pencil for aircraft records, and a Hero 329 filled with Waterman's black for all official documents. I suppose I should use a more permanent ink, but government records are usually well protected from water damage, and I'm not worried about anyone altering my entries. With my line of work, no one would benefit from it!

 

Tom

[FrankB]

If I am writing something that is official or legal I use blue-black. Lately, I have taken to using Noodler's "Legal Lapis." Buy, in general, I use violet, brown or burgundy inks. I simply like those colors, and they make my notes and letters quite distinctive.

[Goodwhiskers]

I prefer blue for class attendance, to distinguish my marks from the pre-printed material on the roster.

 

I prefer to use my own ink and pen, for pleasure and for a simple measure to make students' occasional temptations to forgery more difficult to surrender to and to perpetrate successfully.

 

I rotate between Levenger Cobalt Blue, Levenger Cocoa (brown), Levenger Gemstone Green and Levenger Fireball (orange-red) when marking papers, quizzes and tests. Yes, all students in any given class get the same color of marks from me on any given day.

 

My first fountain-pen-blue for attendance was Lamy Blue, which looked OK.

Levenger Cobalt Blue in a converter replaced it as soon as the Lamy cartridge was used up. Levenger Cobalt Blue is beautiful and smooth-writing. However, it is prone to dry-smearing after weeks and even after months.

 

Therefore, I switched to Levenger Raven Black, which is equally beautiful and smooth-writing, and which dry-smears less.

 

A few months later, I spilled a glass of water over a roster page, almost wiping out one month's attendance records. Fortunately, Levenger Raven Black is just water-resistant enough on laser-printer paper that the original marks were still visible in the gray-purple fog upon close inspection. I traced over them in Levenger Cocoa and got no complaint from the office staff members who entered the data into the computer the next workday.

 

I switched to ballpoint pens for attendance until I got Noodler's Black, which I enjoy using for attendance again.

 

After my bottle of Levenger Cobalt Blue runs out (in non-attendance uses), I'll try one of the waterproof blues from Noodler's for attendance.

[klemenv]

Blue, but solely because of Diamine Tropical Blue.

[Apollo]

My preferred colour for work is blue black: PR Midnight Blues,

Waterman Blue Black, Pelikan 4001 Blue Black; however, there are blue inks that I like to use as well such as PR American Blue, PR Lake Placid Blue and Waterman Florida Blue.

[Goodwhiskers]

(Edit: corrected the spelling of Nathan Tardif's name. One "f.")

 

Update: Noodler's Blue-Black is now my "blue" for official recordkeeping , even though it really isn't blue . I wasn't sure about liking it at first, but it has grown on me in the past few days.

 

It has so much black in it that it's really more like a dark teal color (from the colleague I asked).

(EDIT, 12/21/2005: I don't see teal in it anymore! Expectations and perception )

The black component is Noodler's waterproof black, although the inventor Mr. Tardif carefully avoids guaranteeing his mixed waterproof + non-waterproof colors like this one as "bulletproof." It's waterproof enough for my job: spilled water on dry marks separates out the tiny bit of blue (and blue seems to be the only dye in it besides black) but can't make the dried black budge from the marks.

 

Noodler's Blue-Black is dark coming from my Lamy Safari Extra Fine, and distinctive. It's unlike any color I've seen for the pre-printed portions of forms, and I've never seen those cheesy mass-produced "signatures" on form letters in any color like it (they usually use some prettier dark blue). I'm reminded me of the ink on an early-20th-century letter kept by my mother, a letter to her father from his father.

 

I still vary between Levenger Cobalt Green and Levenger Fireball for marking students' papers.

Edited March 2, 2006 by Goodwhiskers

[James Pickering]

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[Titivillus]

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Just curious if we know for certain that scribes such as Cataneo used sepia or brown inks or did they use black ink that has faded to the color we see today.

 

Kurt H

[Betty]

Oh my gosh! I couldn't stop staring at your handwriting! I can't believe something so beautiful came out of one of us...woah! How long have you done calligraphy?

[James Pickering]

..... Just curious if we know for certain that scribes such as Cataneo used sepia or brown inks or did they use black ink that has faded to the color we see today.Kurt H

Probably both. Undoubtably some documents originally written in black ink were stored in brightly lit locations that has caused the writing to fade to brown. There are numerous surviving documents containing passages written in both black and sepia/brown inks. Several scribes recorded recipes for both colors of ink.

Edited December 16, 2005 by James Pickering

[James Pickering]

.....  How long have you done calligraphy?

So long (65+ years) that I should be able to write well, Betty -- thanks for the kind words though.

 

James

Edited December 16, 2005 by James Pickering

[James Pickering]

..... Just curious if we know for certain that scribes such as Cataneo used sepia or brown inks or did they use black ink that has faded to the color we see today.Kurt H

Probably both. Undoubtably some documents originally written in black ink were stored in brightly lit locations that has caused the writing to fade to brown. There are numerous surviving documents containing passages written in both black and sepia/brown inks. Several scribes recorded recipes for both colors of ink.

The following scan of a portion of an 18th century document in my possession shows black and sepia/brown inks being used. It was written out on calfskin vellum. The writing is much faded probably due to a combination of poor storage, chemical constituents of the inks and their interaction with the prepared animal skins.

 

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[Schuttwegraeumer]

I use the Rohrer&Klingner Ink "Salix" for all my works and in the School.

Salix is a blueblack iron gall ink and its fraud proof.

I have a retblack Ink from Rohrer&Klingner "Scabiosa", but I dont use this very often.

 

I use the Salix in 2 M200, one with a F-Nib for my Hamradio Log, its better with a fine nib and a M-Nib for longer text and works in the school.

 

Schutti