Do you match ink colour to pen colour?

[Kalessin]

I never used to match ink color to pen color (though my pens were all black or stainless steel or silver). Now that I have a Pelikan 400 in tortoise (with brown cap and knob), I have only had Watermans Havana Brown in it. I tried some nice old Quink black, and the color just seemed... wrong. I put Havana back in and... everything is right again.

 

Could this be the beginning of a compulsive obsession? :blink:

[OldPott]

Hmmm, Havana brown, eh? I'm still looking for the perfect marriage for my Pel 400 tortie. You may just have started me off again...

 

I voted "sometimes" because there are some pens where it just doesn't seem to matter and others where I am ridiculously pernickety (like the Pel).

 

I nipped out at lunchtime (well, earlier, this is still lunchtime) and bought a bottle of Herbin's Poussiere de Lune, ostensibly for a charcoal Safari, as I couldn't lay my hands on the grey ink which I liked. I think it'll be fine but I can't help thinking I now need a pen which exactly fits this new ink...

 

The ink, as described elsewhere, is grey-ish purple (aubergine) (sorry, eggplant). That pursuit should keep me quiet for while...

 

 

edited for idiom

Edited January 26, 2007 by OldPott

[jd50ae]

Yea, right, every chance I get............................

Edited January 26, 2007 by jd50ae

[juhtolv]

What colour would I put in Chrome plated pens? :blink: 

You just can’t have matching ink with fountain pens with these colours or finishes:

• Chrome
• Stainless steel
• Gold
• Silver
• White
• Demonstrator

Therefore, you must have some exceptions for your matching rules. I put black ink to those pens of five first colours. I fill demonstrators with some very excotic colours with no matching pen. For example it is hard to find turquoise pens. Therefore I put turquoise ink to my Lamy Vista.

[juhtolv]

Yea, right, every chance I get............................

 

I would put brown ink to that fourth pen and green or turquoise ink to that eighth pen. I would fill that Lamy Vista with some exotic ink with no matching pen. Other pens would be filled with black ink.

[jd50ae]

Yea, right, every chance I get............................

 

I would put brown ink to that fourth pen and green or turquoise ink to that eighth pen. I would fill that Lamy Vista with some exotic ink with no matching pen. Other pens would be filled with black ink.

I guess I am a fuddy duddy, I use Black and Blue in 90% of my pens. My calligraphy pens on the other hand are all colors.

 

One exception, my purply Wality 69L ED has PR Tanzanite in it and always will.

Edited January 28, 2007 by jd50ae

[Andrew T]

For a long time I used only Quink Blue then I bought a black Parker 45 for form filling and kept black in that pen. When, I was given a green / black marbled Phileas and decided to use only green or black ink in it. Having recently acquired a Teal Parker 51, I bought some Diamine Steel Blue to use in it when I read that this ink looked like teal. When I tried it, it looked too green so I kept adding more blue to a sample till it just about matches. Has anyone else found a Teal ink?

[Taki]

Has anyone else found a Teal ink?

I don't know if you want to use Noodler's eternal in P51, but have you tried Legal Lapis? It's a nice greenish blue.

Edited February 4, 2007 by Taki

[GardenCity-NY]

I do not so much match inks as much as try to aviod creating ink/pen combinations that clash. My Mento Punpkin Seed pen is not very tolorent of this...

 

Joe :blink:

[Jazzbaby]

I tried matching inks to the colour of the pen to simplify things but some inks just do not work well in certain pens. Now I just grab the pen I feel like using & hope that the ink is a suitable colour for what I'm writing (or to whom). Someone here said they keep a log. Maybe I should try that.

Jazz

[Shortie]

I just did, unintentionally. Got a new (for me) colour and decided to test it out and see something other than the Aurora black that I have been using. It was the gf that noticed that the ink and the pen were very similar in colour.

 

MB 144 classic in burgundy with Private Reserve Black Cherry.

[Srehman]

All my pens are black (well, almost all...) and I write exclusively with black ink.

 

... I wonder what that says about me...

[Col]

All my pens are black (well, almost all...) and I write exclusively with black ink.

 

... I wonder what that says about me...

That your future looks black...

[Srehman]

That would be past, present AND future then!

[wackyjacky1]

I've managed to accumulate 3 burgundy-colored pens, so I bought a bottle of Noodler's Red-Black just for them!

[arvadajames]

Some of my pens have "picked" a color. For example I have a Copper Estie J that will not allow me to put anything in it except Private Reserve Copper Burst; I have a Green Parker 45 that absolutely insists on Noodlers Gruenne Cactus; and last but not least I have a Parker 25 with a broad cursive nib that only likes Private Reserve Gray Flannel. The last one is an interesting combination, as I have not found any other color that looks good with that pen, and when I have tried the Gray Flannel in other pens it looks like a poor quality black ink. But, together I get some amazing shadding and a definite gray.

[penforlife]

Not so much the color but the style. If I am using an older vintage-type pen with a flex nib then I look for a vintage-looking ink that offers some shading. In situations I typically go with Waterman blue-black

[lisa]

As long as it doesn't clash too bad, like purple in a red pen, any colour will do in any pen. I don't mind a nice match, but next fill can be another colour.