What Is Your Favourite Dark Teal Ink?

[Raoulm]

Diamine teal. its excellent

[Muncle]

Air Corps Blue Black for me. It looks handsome on the page. That PR Ebony Blue is something else, though!

 

Lots of good looking pictures in this thread.

[Garageboy]

Noodlers Manhattan Blue

 

Dark teal is pretty much blue black

[debraji]

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Thank you very much, amberleadavis! This is fantastic!

 

I let my eyes float over the swatches, and Noodler's Navy stood out to me, followed by Bad Belted Kingfisher. Tsuki-yo is also very nice. Manhattan Blue, too, but not as much as the others... but Art Brown's closed. I should've picked up a bottle, even if just to have it - I was there on the last day, for chrissake Ku-Jahn is a teeny bit green for me. I wonder how BBK and Navy behave in a Custom 823? Tsuki-yo would probably be just at home in it, being from the same brand. Just enough water resistance to be salvageable if water hits is fine with me, even if "salvageable" happens to be faint traces of what's left of the ink delineating letters after an (improbable) accident.

 

 

I use Noodler's Navy in my fine-nibbed Custom 823 and I love it. This nib runs extra-fine, and I still see shading with this ink.

[PJohnP]

Noodler's Prime of the Commons has some teal to the colour, but it's still very usable as a business ink.

 

It is not identical to Legal Lapis (an "exclusive" for Pendemonium). I have both inks, and while there is a distinct similarity, my bottles of ink show an obvious visual difference in tone.

 

Since Prime of the Commons was a "UK exclusive" through Pure Pens, there's a distinct possibility that a bottle or three is lingering amongst the UK members of FPN. It's not on Pure Pens' site currently, alas.

 

 

 

John P.

Edited August 30, 2013 by PJohnP

[amberleadavis]

Thank you so much for all your suggestions and help! You are much more organised and efficient then I am. I will check out several if your suggestions. I like the look of Ku-Jahn: I have not seen it before. Thank you so much for taking the trouble to do this.

 

By the way, what are the Fade Olympics?

 

 

I use a digital notebook (Circus Ponies Notebook), it allows me to keep organized. Some of these images have been posted for a couple of years, but the inks haven't changed.

 

2013 FADE OLYMPICS start on Monday.

[Friar Whently]

For dark, almost black teals, either De Atramentis Plum or Private Reserve Ebony Blue. They are almost identical, but EB I has just a hint more green to it than Plum. Both are partially water resistant...the color washes out but an underlying black line remains. Plum also dries slightly quicker.

[Runnin_Ute]

To my eye, 54th Massachusetts is bluer than you want, Bad Green Gator looking at the Goulet Swab might be a candidate - although the sample I have shows it may be lighter and greener than you would like.

[Friar Whently]

Or, maybe Ku-Jahn (From Lapis' contribution to the Fade Olympics)

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/2013-FADE/slides/2013-FADE_278.jpg

What's "Ku-Jahn"? Mix of Ku-Jaku and something else?

[corniche]

What's "Ku-Jahn"? Mix of Ku-Jaku and something else?

 

Hello Friar Whently, et al,

 

I believe Mike's penmanship has caused a little confusion - if you look at it real close, I think it is a "loose" K and a narrowed U; in sum, he is saying "Ku-Jaku," the proper name.

 

All the best,

 

Sean

Edited August 31, 2013 by S. P. Colfer

[DrCodfish]

I don't think I saw Diamine Steel Blue mentioned. I like this ink, it is a teal but perhaps not dark enough for you. It has a lot of color.

[Pennata Penna]

I love really dark Teal inks, as dark as Blue-Black, but with a Teal tinge rather than blue.

The Sailor ink is Yama Dori.

Thank you for your help.

Hetty

The closest iroshizuku would be syo-ro. I also have the yama-dori, and ku-jaku is way too blue for that.. even shin-ryoku is closer. Hth.

 

Tony

[fourseamer]

I would add Pharmacist's Turkish Night iron gall ink to this list. It starts out as a nice turquoise blue but dries to a deep teal color as it oxidizes. It is beautiful and a lot of fun to write with.

[alexander_k]

I've just finished my last bottle of Diamine Teal, which I liked, in favour of Akkerman's Diep-duinwaterblauw, which is darker and more blue.

[FLZapped]

Noodler's Legal Lapis!

+1

 

-Bruce

[gmax]

Another vote for R&K Verdigris

[DanF]

Noodler's Squeteague is a fairly dark teal, very close to Diamine Teal, though a little more saturated.

 

Dan

[Albinoni]

Would you call Syo-Ro a dark teal ink ?

[Hetty]

Lots of lovely suggestions, thank you. Some I already have. Noodlers is virtually impossible to obtain in the UK so would have to buy from the US. I'm just going to check out some ink reviews.

[reicel]

Would you call Syo-Ro a dark teal ink ?

I wouldn't. I have only used it in my VP with a fine nib - it's more bright and intense than dark. It might be darker with a broader nib.