A Black Or Blue Ink That Easily Fades.

[Opooh]

Does anyone knows a brand of ink that fades away in 1 or 2 years, even when not exposed to sunlight or heat? Preferably black or blue.

[corniche]

Hello Opooh,

 

Not really. This is a trait ink manufacturers strived to avoid. Good luck with this.

 

All the best,

 

Sean

 

Edit: Maybe Quink Washable Blue, but I have weather journal entries written in Qwb that are several years old and they look the same as they did when I wrote them.

Edited August 11, 2013 by S. P. Colfer

[RobbW]

Something has to break down inks for them to fade: UV, water, chemicals in paper, etc. I don't know of anything that fades to zero without some cause. Some inks are notorious for fading though, the above QWB, I think Quink Black may be one, or at least it turns teal-ish. Maybe if you diluted one of these--extremely diluted--it would fade completely. It might not be very visible to begin, though.

[lancecreeks]

Depends on how much you mean by "fade". In my experience, Lamy Blue (cartridge) fades by half in terms of intensity, in half a year. It's only been exposed to artificial lighting a couple of times, the rest of the time it's locked away in a drawer.

[callamint]

Quink blue does this for me.

[wastelanded]

+1 for Quink Blue. Any washable blue ink should do the trick for you.

[mirosc]

Sometimes Pelikan Royal Blue - another one of the washable blues.

I have some journals where it has faded almost completely over a decade and other journals where it is still fully legible.

[fourseamer]

In my experience, Lamy Blue (cartridge) fades by half in terms of intensity, in half a year. It's only been exposed to artificial lighting a couple of times, the rest of the time it's locked away in a drawer.

 

This is also my experience with Lamy Blue (also from cartridges). Here today, gone tomorrow.

[amberleadavis]

Uh... actually a lot of blues and black fade even when left in journals. If you look at the fade experiments, the point to placing it in sun is to attempt to speed up the fading process and see which inks could / would fade quickly / slowly.

 

 

I've lost journals to Lamy Blue.

 

Parker Quink and Skrip blue both faded when left in notebooks.

 

Check out the various fade experiment to get an idea of which inks faded quickly. If it faded in the first week when exposed to sun, it will fade faster than other inks when left alone.

 

This experiment shows the inks via week and has a lot of blues.

 

This thread has about 50 samples including blue and black and also has weekly progress images.

[inkstainedruth]

I was about to say "Quink Washable Blue", and then discovered that a whole lot of people beat me to the punch.

Opooh, is there some specific reason you want this quality in an ink? Because IMO it isn't a desirable quality. While I don't always care (especially in my journal) if what I write can be read 100 years from now, or even if an ink is necessarily waterproof (semi-water resistant is often good enough for my purposes, unless I'm addressing an envelope or writing bills) I found it *amazingly* irritating that QWB faded almost to the point of illegibility within a matter of months -- even when the journal was closed, and I was not writing past the margins on the pages.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Opooh]

Thans to everyone for the suggestions.

The reason why is that I want to write a letter in combining inks with different fading properties. Sort of an encrypted letter, that only gives away its secret after 1 or 2 years.

[inkstainedruth]

Well, if that's the reason, I can tell you from experience that the Quink will fade *much* faster than your allotted time frame. Maybe six months if kept out of direct sunlight. Like my (closed) journal....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth