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[drjmb]

Wonderful job. How can I add to the plugged-in world's gratitude? The teal is next on my list but allow me to testify, amen: Eau de Nil is a hidden gem of lustrious subtlety in an intriguing hue previously unknown to my palette. Without equivocation I can say that if one needs more colors than Waterman's, Diamine is the only 2nd choice.

p.s. Cybaea: you invite postal correspondence. To what address?

Edited January 1, 2017 by drjmb

[Chrissy]

Wonderful job. How can I add to the plugged-in world's gratitude? The teal is next on my list but allow me to testify, amen: Eau de Nil is a hidden gem of lustrious subtlety in an intriguing hue previously unknown to my palette. Without equivocation I can say that if one needs more colors than Waterman's, Diamine is the only 2nd choice.

p.s. Cybaea: you invite postal correspondence. To what address?

 

This is an old thread and if you look on Cybaea's profile page, he says he was leaving FPN. So he may not answer your post.

[claudiabarcellos]

WOW

what a great work you´ve done.

because I´m kind of newbie in the hobby, I was wondering what company offers us the largest collection of colors.

the answer is not difficult to get: of course is diamine.

I love their inks.

Thank you very much for the work you´ve put on it.

just great!

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Thank you for the amazing table. I was going through some reviews before finding this, now I can compare all similar colors next to each other.

 

 

This is an invaluable thread to me, again, thank you!

[fphilipp]

Thanks for this! Impressive and useful!

[Penpagol]

An excellent work indeed!!! One of its kind!

[Fermata]

Such a valuable resource, this link is worth preserving.

[oavaldezi]

Great work. But it seems these are RGB values, not HSV.

About the colour sorting

 

I took a 20% sample from the centre of the colour swab images from Diamines web site, converted to HSV, calculated the average colour, and sorted by HSV values. Six colours were taken out manually and put at the end: four neutral colours, one green-black and one violet-black.

 

This is the original list:

Hue	Saturation	Value	Name
0	201	122	Matador
0	231	154	Passion Red
1	227	130	Poppy Red
2	139	74	Rustic Brown
2	179	109	Monaco Red
3	194	90	Ancient Copper
3	211	132	Wild Strawberry
5	232	147	Brilliant Red
6	232	136	Vermillion
7	224	148	Pink
7	228	129	Pumpkin
8	105	41	Chocolate Brown
8	157	128	Burnt Sienna
8	239	126	Sunset
9	117	66	Saddle Brown
9	253	155	Coral
10	172	81	Ochre
11	79	60	Macassar
11	135	108	Dark Brown
12	251	130	Blaze Orange
12	251	134	Orange
15	239	129	Peach Haze
16	134	77	Raw Sienna
18	201	110	Sepia
25	145	103	Golden Brown
25	237	133	Amber
29	253	141	Sunshine Yellow
34	12	23	Jet Black
36	252	118	Yellow
51	127	133	Light Green
59	201	110	Jade
65	75	63	Evergreen
70	210	69	Meadow
72	213	81	Kelly Green
97	91	70	Emerald
99	149	113	Apple Glory
105	99	67	Umber
107	235	62	Ultra Green
110	94	26	Green Black
114	156	39	Sherwood Green
115	243	49	Woodland Green
118	30	34	Graphite
121	250	72	Dark Green
122	192	42	Delamere
127	248	87	Soft Mint
129	247	92	Steel Blue
129	250	99	Marine
136	229	117	Beau Blue
136	252	113	Turquoise
138	253	106	Aqua Blue
139	169	44	Teal
139	252	108	Aqua Lagoon
140	201	80	Eau de Nil
145	159	45	Twilight
146	18	26	Onyx Black
146	123	99	Indigo
146	206	100	Misty Blue
148	211	78	Prussian Blue
148	252	106	Havasu Turquoise
149	212	117	Washable Blue
149	229	101	Presidential Blue
149	246	89	Kensington Blue
152	16	126	Grey
152	143	69	Denim
152	250	107	Royal Blue
152	251	88	Asa Blue
152	252	104	Mediterranean Blue
153	191	52	Midnight
154	230	23	Blue Black
154	234	54	Majestic Blue
155	220	149	China Blue
155	252	95	Florida Blue
158	240	62	Sargasso Sea
160	77	115	Amazing Amethyst
164	9	54	Quartz Black
164	68	27	Eclipse
167	141	107	Imperial Blue
169	152	63	Bilberry
170	253	79	Sapphire Blue
188	125	122	Majestic Purple
194	126	111	Lavender
195	116	139	Violet
198	135	99	Imperial Purple
202	59	66	Damson
222	108	42	Grape
228	169	134	Claret
228	198	117	Deep Magenta
236	214	145	Hope Pink
241	118	79	Merlot
244	167	116	Amaranth
247	252	156	Cerise
249	171	68	Syrah
250	179	139	Maroon
250	214	128	Scarlet
252	208	91	Red Dragon
253	177	65	Oxblood
253	198	130	Classic Red
254	229	165	Flamingo Pink
255	208	128	Ruby
255	251	101	Crimson

(I tried attaching the spreadsheet, but FPN will not let me do that.)

 

The six colours at the end were sorted by Value ignoring Hue and Saturation.

[oavaldezi]

The colors don't work as RGB values either, and their syntax is incorrect for HSV, so I'm completely confounded.

Edited August 15, 2019 by oavaldezi

[rafapa]

The colors don't work as RGB values either, and their syntax is incorrect for HSV, so I'm completely confounded.[/quite

Message #25 in this thread said they are HSL normalized between 0 and 255. I presume to get more standard values for HSL you should need something like

H=360/255*H(cybaea)

S=100/255*S(cybaea)

L=100/255*L(cybaea)

[oavaldezi]

Thank you, rafapa, this clears it up.

The colors don't work as RGB values either, and their syntax is incorrect for HSV, so I'm completely confounded.[/quite
Message #25 in this thread said they are HSL normalized between 0 and 255. I presume to get more standard values for HSL you should need something like
H=360/255*H(cybaea)
S=100/255*S(cybaea)
L=100/255*L(cybaea)

[cybaea]

On 1/1/2017 at 7:31 PM, drjmb said:

p.s. Cybaea: you invite postal correspondence. To what address?

Apologies that I missed you! Seems like you also are not very active here

[cybaea]

On 8/15/2019 at 12:55 PM, rafapa said:

On 8/15/2019 at 11:01 AM, oavaldezi said:

The colors don't work as RGB values either, and their syntax is incorrect for HSV, so I'm completely confounded.[/quite

Message #25 in this thread said they are HSL normalized between 0 and 255. I presume to get more standard values for HSL you should need something like

H=360/255*H(cybaea)

S=100/255*S(cybaea)

L=100/255*L(cybaea)

Thank you!

[WalterC]

cybaea, thanks for this amazing work, which I had not seen before. Also, thanks for your ink reviews.

[GigiT]

I little late to the party, but I want to thank cybaea for creating these pages of ink samples.

Diamine and Akkerman (supposedly also made by Diamine) are some of my favorite inks.

Thanks again for your hard work, it is very useful and very much appreciated.