Inky T O D - Color Swatches - Blue - Please Post Your Pictures And Tell Us Your Thoughts

[amberleadavis]

 

 

OOOOO thank you. I love Manhattan blue.

[akustyk]

 

 

OOOOO thank you. I love Manhattan blue.

I like it, too. It's quite reliable and not too finicky, in my experience. I wonder how close it is to the Penman Sapphire.

[amberleadavis]

It's not close to PPS, but check out the link in my thread.

[Noihvo]

+++ Warning! Image Heavy Post! +++

 

 

 

 

 

 

For your pleasure.

[Noihvo]

And here is the same sheen on cream Tomoe River…

 

 

And a Rhodia Webnotebook…

 

[HalloweenHJB]

Extremely handsome! I am curious if any of the more science-y people out there know why it seems that so many of the BLUE inks have such noticeable sheen. Is it a question of the pigments they use to get a rich blue color? If you think of it, the list of blue inks with strong sheen is really extensive: listing only the inks I happen to have right now, Akkerman Shocking Blue, Sailor Souten, Private Reserve DC Supershow Blue and Naples Blue, de Atramentis Steel Blue and Hyacinth, etc., etc.

 

Is there a good explanation for non-chemists for the phenomenon?

[sakayume]

 

 

I thought it was disappointingly dull when I first got it, but it's really grown on me and I like it a lot now.

Edited April 26, 2016 by candide

[lgsoltek]

 

 

I thought it was disappointingly dull when I first got it, but it's really grown on me and I like it a lot now.

 

 

I love this ink.

[gylyf]

I thought it was disappointingly dull when I first got it, but it's really grown on me and I like it a lot now.

Gorgeous! (The ink and the handwriting both.)

[sakayume]

 

 

I love this ink.

 

I don't think I would have bought it without your review! I usually don't like blues, but it looked so good in your pictures.

 

Gorgeous! (The ink and the handwriting both.)

 

Thank you. I think it really shines in a wide, wet nib where there's opportunity for shading. It's a bit wasted in my Novum.

[amberleadavis]

http://www.sheismylawyer.com/2016-Ink/05-May/slides/2016-05-04_09.jpg

[jmccarty3]

Ocean bears a passing resemblance to PPS.

[amberleadavis]

http://www.sheismylawyer.com/2016-Ink/05-May/slides/2016-05-07_10.jpg

[sakayume]

Waterman Mysterious Blue, not a particularly interesting ink, I'm not sure why mine appears so light?

 

 

[lgsoltek]

Waterman Mysterious Blue, not a particularly interesting ink, I'm not sure why mine appears so light?

 

 

Your colour looks very true to what I experienced. Also there's Montblanc Blue Hour Twilight Blue which looks exactly the same as Mysteriois Blue.

[sakayume]

Good to know, thanks. I was beginning to wonder whether I might have gotten the only dry Pelikan in existence. I don't have the Blue Hour Twilight Blue because I remember reading here that it was identical (or almost) to the Waterman.

[AndyYNWA]

Is Waterman Mysterious Blue also called Blue-Black?

[sakayume]

Is Waterman Mysterious Blue also called Blue-Black?

 

 

I was under the impression (from reading this forum) that it was the old Blue Black renamed? But this is the first and only Waterman ink I have.

[AndyYNWA]

 

 

I was under the impression (from reading this forum) that it was the old Blue Black renamed? But this is the first and only Waterman ink I have.

That's what I had in mind...

[ROsk]

Any suggestions for a wet, permanent professional BLUE. I have been using Pilot Blue-Black and Pelikan Blue-Black but they are too dry