Inky T O D - What Are Wet Inks?

[amberleadavis]

We have an update to this thread. An amazing comparison that has great detail.

@InesF put a lot of work into the topic of "wetness".

 

 

[mtcn77]

On 9/3/2017 at 10:23 PM, ENewton said:

I have lately tried two inks with really meager flow--Graf von Faber-Castell Violet Blue and Robert Oster Barossa Grape. Pens that write smoothly with other inks drag along the page with these two, and presumably because so little ink is flowing from the nib, the resulting script is very pale.

Thank you!

I have previously coupled Lamy with Parker Quink and wondered why I had flow issues. It turns out viscous inks flow 'better'. That is against the current paradigm wet is better.

I checked from an ink guy, it is probably the least viscous ink.

Try your luck with viscous inks. I sure had my share of luck with them.

[Bo Bo Olson]

De Atramentis Aubergine is an ink I consider wet. Same with DA's Royal Blue which has a tinge of purple....if you define purple as bluish and violet as reddish....some folks do it the other way around including Wiki....but I learned colors from my Crayon box.

 

I had a dry semi-flex nibbed pen, and had bought Waterman blue ...don't remember what it was called then or now. It was wet enough to make that dry pen write well.

Eventually I replaced Waterman blue with DA Royal Blue, in it was as wet and 'thicker', more saturated or is that lubricated.

 

I chase shading....so oddly don't know what to make of Noodlers Apache Sunset....or the much wetter slow drying Golden Brown.

If Apache Sunset is a wet ink, then Golden Brown is also.

 

Out side of them I tend to think of any shading ink as dry.....then I ran into Pilot's  kon-peki, which is a wet ink that shades. So much for plan A.

 

I'm glad I stumbled on this thread; finding out I am not alone in finding out there is more to wet and dry than I know. And I am not alone.

Sandy1 would have known.

 

Part of my problem is many of my pens are Pelikans notorious for being a wet writer, so Pelikan inks.... pre-Edelstein were known as dry inks to match the wet nib.

So if an ink shades with a wet nib, it must be dry???