Does Your Ink Color Match Your Pen Color?

[Nimmireth]

I couldn't find this question through searching. Do you match your ink color to your pen color? Why or why not? Or does it matter at all? There are so many more ink colors than pen colors.

[steersbylitning]

I usually match my ink color to one of the colors on the pen. Black pens can, however, have any color. Don't have many metal or white pens, but I'd feel the same way about them.

 

Debbie

[whichwatch]

Do you match your ink color to your pen color? Why or why not?

 

I frequently match colors on my blue and green pens, but not on my red or yellow. Does it matter? Heck no. I do it because I like it that way. I don't match on the red and yellow pens because I don't use red or yellow ink!

[uojfe]

I'll match back and blue. But there are way too many ink colors, I'd go bust buying pens trying to keep up.

 

Though a clear demonstrator solves the problem

[Titanic9990]

I was recently at an antique store and saw two sheaffer pens, one red and one blue, (ended up buying the red one for $4), however there was a red cartridge in the blue pen and blue cartridge in the red pen lol

[sadiemagic]

Not really. I tend to collect blue pens as well as demonstrators. I use blue ink the most, so it might look like I do, but it's not deliberate.

 

I do match my green pelikans (M800 demonstrator, M600 striped) with green or greenish ink. Right now the demonstrator is filled with Iro Tsuki-yo, which I find has a slight green tinge to its dark blue tones, and the green M600 striped has Diamine Sherwood Forest in it. I don't know why I match the green ones - they're the only ones I consciously do that with.

 

Claudette

[fiberdrunk]

I couldn't find this question through searching. Do you match your ink color to your pen color? Why or why not? Or does it matter at all? There are so many more ink colors than pen colors.

 

I've just started doing this some, actually. I've been matching Platinum Preppy pen colors to Noodlers ink colors. It makes it easier to tell what I have, since my collection of both is getting a bit unwieldy!

[drgoretex]

Not as a rule. My pens use only blue, and the myriad variants of that colour. I have only matched up ink with pen once, for this baby:

 

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I filled this with Waterman South Seas Blue, and immediately was struck how perfectly the ink matched the barrel.

 

But no, not habitually...

 

Ken

[Easily Amused]

I sometimes match the inks with the pen colour. More often, though, I'll match the ink "tone" with the pen. For example, if I'm using a pen with gold 'furniture', I'll use a warmer colour of ink, like red or brown. If using a pen with silver/steel-toned clips/nibs/etc, I'll use cooler coloured inks, like turquoise or blue. Of course, sometimes I go wild. An OMAS Galileo with PR Shoreline Gold, anyone?

[tonybelding]

I try not to. Logically, there shouldn't be any connection. But you know. . . When I pick up a blue pen and am thinking about what color of ink I should put into it, my first thought is always. . . Blue ink. Same way with black pens, and green pens. Lately my burgundy pens have been getting a lot of Black Swan in Australian Roses. I can't help it.

 

I've even begun looking favorably upon neutral-color pens, like my chrome-plated Targa, so I won't run into this. . . this impulse, I guess you'd call it.

 

However, for the last week or so I've been rediscovering the joy of Noodler's Black, and I've been putting it into everything.

[Surnia]

hm... almost all my pens are black or demonstrators, so no; the black bodies and clear bodies were chosen to be universally acceptable with any colour!

 

However, once JetPens restocks on a few things, I will be running a Plaisir on BSB, I just need to figure out if I want to use the RB tip, or the nib (which will probably be sacrificed to a nib regrind experiment as well)

[notgiven]

I couldn't find this question through searching. Do you match your ink color to your pen color? Why or why not? Or does it matter at all? There are so many more ink colors than pen colors.

 

Here is the old post with similar question: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/181369-pen-color-vs-ink-color/

 

I try to coordinate ink color with the pen color.

[Blade Runner]

No. I don't want to limit my choice of ink in a pen to one color. And I too have multiple black and silver pens.

[elderberry]

For the most part, yes. At least I will try to make sure that the colors won't clash. Black will, of course, go with anything.

 

Probably that's the reason why I have so many colorful pens. :-D

[lovemy51]

i do, but not all the time. some times, just to give an example, i love the way black ink looks coming out of yellow pens (aurora style mustard resin and yellow capless VP).

 

i also use Rouille D'Ancre in my black CdA Dunas; PR DC Electric Blue in my orange Bexley Simplicity II.

 

what i don't do is missmatch something like "light green ink" (diamine jade green) in a grey or blue pen... etc.

Edited March 6, 2011 by lovemy51

[piembi]

Blue ink goes into any pen but with burgundy ink (burgundy Parker 51 and Sheaffer Snorkel), greenish ink (Parker 51 teal and a Pelikan M400 greenstriped) and brown ink (Lamy AL Star coffee) I like to match pen and ink colour.

[corniche]

Greetings Nimmireth,

 

No. I do not match ink color to pen color- deliberately. I have a very select group of inks that I like and use on a daily basis- Diamine Twilight, Aurora black and blue, Noodler’s Eel Blue and Everflo blue-black. My pens run the gambit, color-wise; especially the Esterbrook Model Js that I have; I do have dedicated pen and ink combinations; however, they are not color matched. For instance, my red Estie J is always loaded with Aurora black; the fern green one is always loaded with Aurora blue, (it used to always be loaded with Quink Permanent Blue, but that is another story), etc., etc.

 

If you like to match your pens and inks that is fine with me; however, I don’t- I’m just happy when I find a pen that is near 100% reliable and an ink that is near 100% reliable- whether or not they match is inconsequential.

 

All the best,

 

Sean http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/ribbons/black2.gif

Aka, the friendly curmudgeon

[Trom]

For some pens I do. For example for the Waterman Edsons. Green ink for the green Edson, Blue for the blue one and dark red for ...

[negirl]

No. I have three identical red and silver Sheaffer school pens and I try new inks in those at random.

[SnowLeopard]

Never. Although, I've had black in black pens from time to time...not a conscious choice. Pen & ink match ups are done to maximize effect on paper....shading, depth of color, line ...purpose of the document. I don't match pen and ink color in any premeditated way.

Edited March 6, 2011 by SnowLeopard