Does Your Ink Color Match Your Pen Color?

[inkspot]

Not intentionally, however I did just fill my raspberry red Esterbrook with J. Herbin Rouge Bourgogne (raspberry). But, I also have a red Waterman Hemisphere that is currently filled with Diamine Kelly Green

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Yes. It simplifies things greatly when you have five pens in your breast pocket, each with a different ink color.

 

Now if only (1) Pelikan made M200s in brown, (2) I knew of a brown paint that would stick to (and cure properly on) my heavily modified Pelikano, or (3) I could find something else reasonably priced, brown, fillable from a bottle without disassembly, and NOT made out of nitrate celluloid.

Edited March 15, 2011 by hbquikcomjamesl

[Calbei]

Generally, no. But my Carene is filled with Diamine Majestic Blue and it's an uncanny match. Both the pen and the ink are a bright, vivid deep blue with a nice sheen and a very slight hint of purple (to me).

[The Bantam Scribbler]

I didn't actively plan to match my pen with an ink, but loading up my navy gray P51 demi with pre-Slovenian Skrip Blue Black turned out to be a very fortunate accident; not just because the colors compliment eachother so well, but because the flow of the Skrip brings out the best performance I've yet seen in the P51's nib.

[Rhincodon]

Never intentionally! My pens are blue but I really like warm ink colors. Every now and then I cycle through the blues (I change colors every time one runs dry...) and they sort of match up.

[snowblink]

Whatever is empty and what ink I feel like using next. Otherwise you will end up spending lots of money on pens. However, my yellow Toledo seems to always be filled with black ink... Maybe it's time to try something different in it!

[rperson17]

I'd say a great majority of my pens are matched with an ink of the same color. But that's easy since many are blues or blacks. And I happen to dabble in Sheaffer Triumphs, so that lets me put things like Noodler's Army in the green striated, Noodler's walnut in the brown striated, and (my favorite match) Diamine Oxblood in the carmine striated. I once tried putting walnut in a blue Aurora and it just didn't work for me - I guess I'm too much of a "stay within the lines" kind of guy!

[PDW]

I do match pen colour to ink colour to make up for a lousy memory. It's especially useful when I have a heavy marking load and just reach for the red pen when I need red ink.

 

OTOH just looking at Diamine Syrah coming out of the Osmiroid gold-plated nib (medium soft) in my copper Estie makes me smile every time I start writing.

[Penquin]

All the time! In fact, I just bought Montblanc Burgundy and Iroshizuku Momiji inks to suit my new Edison Pearl Hakumin Urushi pen!

[Dark Side]

I only have a couple of non-neutral colored pens. I have a cyan Twsbi that I usually fill with some kind of green and a mint green Lamy Al-Star that I also usually fill with some kind of green. Of course, I move green inks than any other color so I guess it works well. My other pens are either clear or black or metal. I put any color ink in those.

[alvinlum]

I matched my pen with the ink according to their colours sub-consciously but with the exception of chrome and demonstrator pen. It makes it easier to remember which pen is inked with what colour so i wont end up diff colour on a single paragraph.

[Scrawler]

I matched my pen with the ink according to their colours sub-consciously but with the exception of chrome and demonstrator pen. It makes it easier to remember which pen is inked with what colour so i wont end up diff colour on a single paragraph.

Ah another one who has not yet managed to find that elusive bottle of chrome ink. For the demonstrator try Blue Ghost. :roflmho:

[Nimmireth]

To answer my own question - I'm not matching pen to ink color. My pen selection is small. Pelikan M200 (black), Pelikan M205 (red/orange), Lamy Safari (navy), Lamy Vista and a burgundy Cross. The red Pelikan currently has a mix of Noodler's Walnut and Violet. The black Pelikan has a mix of Noodler's Burgundy and Violet. I like to change ink colors every time I fill a pen. I would love to have a nice purple or magenta colored pen, but the ones I like are out of my price range.

[corchromatique]

I did realize that I had matched ink with pen color when tried my new bottle of Noodler's Lexington Grey in a dove grey Parker 51.

[jrobert6]

I choose the ink to suit the pen - my Visconti Homo Sapiens is inked with Diamine Monaco Red, feels like I'm writing with lava

 

 

Great idea for the Visconti Homo sapiens! Mine is brand new and uninked, but I just might try it with Diamine Oxblood...

[USMCMom]

It is very rare that I purposely match pen and ink. This has never been something that was important to me. Think it would also feel ... for ME ... to be very limiting, as I have many pens and there's no way I want to be limited to certain colors, just because that's the color of a pen. There are far too many beautiful colors of ink out there. I have no issue with those who enjoy matching. If it pleases them, great.

[ac12]

In general YES.

And if I don't have a pen the matching color, I use a flighter or black pen.

It just makes it easier to know what color ink is in the pen.

This problem gets worse the more pens you have inked up, so any little thing to help me remember is a good thing.

 

If you have the dicipline to put your pen in the same position in the pen holder so you can use pen position as your color indicator. But obviously, this only works with certain pen holders.

[Komitadjie]

In general, yes. Mostly just because I tend to only have one colour of a kind inked up at once anyway. The only real exceptions to that are my gray Shaffer Valiant, and my brown Parker 51. Those kind of alternate around, with the Parker mostly having a red, and the Shaffer usually having a blue.

 

My safaris and AlStars, though, are nearly always matched, more or less.

[napalm]

[Yaakova]

Even though many/most of my friends would accuse me of being OCD, I don't match my ink color to my pen. I'll be the first to admit that I have my share of quirks, but that doesn't happen to be oen of them. In the first place, I haven't used any colored inks besides blue or black in decades. In the second place, I rarely ink more than one pen at a time. Although, to be honest, I do have four pens inked at the moment:

• A hideous green Esterbrook CA101 with a blue Waterman cartridge because I was trying to find a cartridge that would fit it. (Waterman works if you fiddle with it.)

• A black Sheaffer Calligraphy pen using a black Sheaffer cartridge because I felt like playing with it.

• A brushed-chrome Sheaffer Triumph Imperial 444 that I just won on Ebay, and I was testing it with blue Sheaffer Scrip bottled ink.

• A brushed-chrome Sheaffer Javelin - my daily writer - with a black Sheaffer Skrip cartridge.