The Significance Of Red Ink

[themadstork]

The only bottle of ink I have currently is noodler's antietam, so that is my daily writer. Though it is a blood red, I don't know how much I would like using an ink like Sheaffer Skrip Red, which seems like it would be better served correcting work

[WaskiSquirrel]

I like some reds for general writing: Noodler's Black Swan in English Rose and Noodler's Antietam. These are not pure reds which is why they work.

 

More reddish reds are better for highlighting or correcting. Some of my favorites are Noodler's Red Fox and Noodler's Nikita.

 

The only explanation I can give is that the latter two are too attention grabbing for regular writing.

[mirosc]

My neighbor says the Chinese associate red with prosperity and power.

Not if you write a letter with red ink. That's rather bad luck, because in ancient times red ink was reserved for the names of the dead... Some still value this tradition.

[Bookman]

I use red on calendars for birthdays and anniversaries. I use it with green ink on Christmas cards. And I use it to write top-of-the page "milepost" headers in my journal, summarizing a key event described on that page or beginning on that page, the kind of journal entry I might go looking for later on to refresh my recollection about what happened when.