Inky T O D - Orange Ink - Do You Use It? When? Which Ink?

[Dottie]

I've got Noodler's Apache Sunset and Cayenne but the orange I currently like most is Diamine Orange. It is such a vibrant and happy color in a Pilot with a Chinese calligraphy nib. It adds interest to my To-do lists, notes, artwork and journal.

[isabelle304]

Most of the stuff I write, I'll be the only one to see (notes at work, daily schedules, shopping lists, handwriting practice) so I use Diamine Orange most of the time because it makes me feel happy. I also own some Herbin Orange Indien but I find that very wishy washy and sort of a "sad, gloomy" orange. Received some Fuyu-gaki from Japan last week but have not had a chance to try that out yet.

 

From what I've seen though, I think orange looks best with broad nibs.

[madden11]

I have a sample of J Herbin Orange Indien that I don't really care for. My bottle of Noodler's Cayenne I like, but it's not a true orange; more red-orange. Still, I don't use it that often.

[Bigeddie]

Montblanc Ink of Joy... while it lasts. I use it for underlining and making notes on things that I am reading, mostly academic journal papers or book margins (though never fiction). It's more pleasurable than using a highlighter.

 

I have bottles of Iroshizuku Yu-yake and Sailor Jentle Apricot once the last of the IoJ has gone.

[Mr Rob]

Orange is one of my favorite colors overall (not just for ink). I used to use Noodler's Habanero, but found the dry time insufferable. I finally settled on Diamine Blaze Orange as its replacement. I occasionally use orange for personal notes and markup, though it really doesn't have the necessary contrast for reading or writing long passages of text.

[lapis]

Oops... and I thought TOD meant "Time of Death". Well, I stick to pumpkins. IMO they don't leap off the page, and are by no means far too bright. More subtle, restrictive, conditioned, smooth, "decent". Maybe that's why I love eatin' 'em and are thus tempted to write with 'em too.

[Bookman]

I like orange. I keep a bottle of Diamine Orange. I used to use it for journaling. I didn't use it for anything else. But now I stick to blues, blue-blacks, and blacks in all my writings, and I don't use orange at all. Mrs. Bookman uses only Diamine Orange in her Orange Lamy Safari.

[Finalist]

I have a bottle of Apache Sunset which I would say is more orange/yellow on a typical stroke. My goal is to have a wide range of colors for drawing. I'd like each FP to have a different nib grind/tip, and a different color. Because my collection is more for doodling I mix colors a lot with a waterbrsuh, so bright primary colors are important. I can make them darker by combining colors, but I can't make them brighter.

 

Eventually my collection will look something like this:

BRIGHT yellow, red, green, blue,

A few darker colors that shade well like Army Green and Tsuki-yo that will be used for flex writing, cursive italic writing and various drawn lines.

Lots of nib options... flex, nail needles, stubs, italics, bolds, etc.

 

basically everything?

[amberleadavis]

T O D

 

Well, it could be

 

Topic O' Day

Thread O' Day

Thought O' Day

 

or Time of Departure or Time of Death or any other choices. But Inky TOTD just didn't flow like Tod who is sort of Odd. Also, it made these easy to search.

[alexander_k]

Diamine Orange is my favourite ink for text mark-up and a perfect companion to purple inks.

[dragondazd]

My current favorite is pelikan edelstein amber. I also like PR orange crush. Between these two, I didn't think I could justify picking up the apache sunset as well.

 

Also like Sailor apricot and organics studio neon for cheerful non-shading options

[isabelle304]

Diamine Orange is my favourite ink for text mark-up and a perfect companion to purple inks.

 

It goes really well with some turquoise inks also. I use it a lot next to Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku and it looks great! (Tried to attach a scan to illustrate this, but the colours are just not popping off on the scan like they do in real life, so am not bothering...).

[WC Lee]

I use Noodler's Habanero and Cayenne .. only cause its named after the two peppers I love to cook with

[Runnin_Ute]

Apache Sunset... I use it for a lot of things - journal, letters or just doodling.

[senzen]

I use Orange Indien, originally as an alternative to Rouge Hematite which refused to flow for a very long time... Now that it does I use it and Edelstein Mandarin in combination to write down topics... Well I would except with my luck the Lamy Safari Mandarin is on refuses to flow with any ink. Anyway, I am one of those people with too many ideas in my head so using similar colors helps me not to stray too far off topics, I use a group of blues, greens and browns for the same purpose, although I haven't really used each group for a specific topic.

 

Orange Indien and Mandarin are just so gorgeous to look at...

 

The combination of writing with an orange, a dark brown and a light green ink on the same page is also an interesting one.

[inkstainedruth]

Not an orange girl -- that is one color I just can't stand, and that includes for ink. But if I were, I would use it for journaling and general note-taking.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[MisterBoll]

Akkerman #22 - for everything and anything.

[gregamckinney]

Organics Studio Neon. It's a nice red-orange that works for me when I need a color for editing.

 

Forgot about that one. It's a good'n.

Also their LE F. Scott Fitzgerald. That's a great orange.

 

greg

[Lou Erickson]

I've got a bottle of Diamine Pumpkin waiting to be tried. The Apple Glory got tried first - it's fun! Orange soon. Probably a blue first, though. (I try to keep one "serious" color in a pen, and the other pen can be goofy.)

[Algester]

I have like Pilot Iroshizuku Yuuyake and I use it for notes and journaling but thats most likely what pen I'm using but that's the only orange I have :X I will soon get an CdA's Electric Orange once we have a group buy... and maybe I'll also check Diamine Marigold...

Edited May 25, 2014 by Algester