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The title is inspired by the new Blade Runner 2049 trailer and the question by The Grand Tour's passing exhibit of Enzo Ferrari's purple ink: Which current (modern?) inks intentionally replicate or simulate lost or discontinued inks? This is an attempt to have a comprehensive list (like the Sailor ink thread) as the ones I'm aware of are mostly Noodler's inks and were brought up in an old thread here. Noodler's Dark Matter - unknown ink from Los Alamos Sailor Bungbox Sapphire - Parker Penman Sapphire (there's a whole lot of literature of course on which inks replicate PPS, but this is the one that I remember was intentional and not circumstantial) Noodler's V-Mail series Noodler's Borealis Black - Aurora Black (which is still manufactured) Noodler's Boston Brahmin Black - replica Noodler's Ellis Island Blue-Black - early 1900s government-issue blue-black Noodler's Blue-Black - 1930s blue-black Noodler's Manhattan Blue - "the color of the deepest blue vintage 1931 NYC ink" Noodler's Antietam - "The Oldest Vintage Replica Ink" Noodler's Kung Te-Cheng Noodler's Manjiro Nakahama Whaleman's Sepia - whale sepia Noodler's Galileo Manuscript Brown Noodler's Legal Lapis Noodler's Baystate Blue Diamine Poppy Red - Montblanc Corn Poppy Red (which is still manufactured) I might as well ask since we're on the topic of whether Rick Deckard is a replicant: being aware of government restrictions (and multi-government restrictions) as well as economical availability of ingredients being a large deterrent on companies using the same formula or recipe, does anyone have a guess as to which inks have retained their colour/shade the longest? For example, Quink Blue-Black is a far cry from the old Quink Permanent Blue-Black with Solv-X (sorry, I like typing the long name out), which inks aren't like that? edit: English