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

[Jan2016]

[Jan2016]

[Jan2016]

[Jan2016]

[HalloweenHJB]

For a quick image of a bunch of oranges I happen to have lying around in and around the desk (!!):

 

[amberleadavis]

Totally impressive.

[HalloweenHJB]

[Jan2016]

deAtramentis Ginkgo! I also have a bottle, you must have bought the other bottle! :-)

[HalloweenHJB]

deAtramentis Ginkgo! I also have a bottle, you must have bought the other bottle! :-)

 

 

EXCELLENT! I like both the color and the scent, don't you??

[Jan2016]

[bob_hayden]

I stumbled upon this thread by accident. Many of the ink product lines from the major pen manufacturers do not even include an orange ink, and many of the oranges out there are hard to read, so I was surprised to find much interest -- 12 pages!. But when I checked my own warehouse (and old records) I discovered that I actually have (or have had) quite a few. Here are a dozen for your amusement. BTW, as noted, the headings and annotations are made with a mix of old USA Sheaffer inks. I recently bought a bottle of #22 Blue-Black from the 1950s that turned out paler than I had hoped, so I added a little Sheaffer Black from a couple generations later (but still from the USA). It's the best match I have seen for the blue-black in my memories of long ago.

The first four inks were in cartridges, the rest from bottles. These are the least accurate scans I have ever had from this scanner so trust the words more than the image.

1. Manuscript orange I only have because it came in an assortment. It is a bit on the yellow side of orange. This is my first example what what I have found to be typical of bargain oranges -- they are so pale that I would hate to inflict a one-page letter written with them on another human. There are more examples in my notes from the past, but either the inks are no longer available or I do not have any on hand (and do not plan to order any more). These might be useful for highlighting or for multi-ink sketches such as the one in the center of the OP. Because some of the samples here may not be very visible in the scan, I have numbered the lines for reference.

2. Thornton orange is similar in legibility but a bit less yellow.

3. Slovenian Sheaffer Orange is the palest orange I could use for writing. I think they managed this by adding a bit more red.

4. Pelikan Apricot is AFAIK a long discontinued color that seems to have gone in another direction to increase legibility -- make the color a bit dirty. I would rate this not quite dirty enough. This cartridge is so old one might wonder about color accuracy but the color here matches my notes and my memory. The reason it is still around is because it was too pale to use. (The scan makes it appear less pale than it is in real life.)

5. Diamine Blaze Orange attacks the legibility question with brightness. Here I put it in a pen with a nib marked "F" but it turned out to be more like XF which makes it look less legible. I think it is more legible than the above in a comparable nib width. (The ink is close to pure bright orange while the scan makes it look more yellow.)

6. Sheaffer USA King's Gold is pretty borderline as an orange but it illustrates that even yellow ink can be quite legible if you add enough dirt. (Much more orange in the scan than in real life.)

7. Private Reserve Orange Crush applies dirt to a more orange ink with good effect on legibility without looking quite as tacky as King's Gold. (To me the latter looks like a child's toy made of plastic of a color to suggest gold, but only very discreetly. OTOH, I know of no ink that does a better imitation, and at least it is legible, so I do respect Sheaffer's effort.) (The scan makes this look much more similar to the ink above than it really is.)

8. Private Reserve Tangerine Dream adds a bit of pink and is quite legible. Unfortunately, it is the only ink of the twelve to bleed through to the other side of the page.

9. Diamine Peach Haze is a similar color, bleeds less, and has a white sheen to it -- the only ink here for which I observed sheen of any hue. I have had this for a while and I noted what looked like a chalky precipitate on all four sides of the square cross-section bottle. I shook the bottle quite a bit and much of it remained and the ink foamed. It still wrote fine and the color matches my notes from when it was new. So, I like how it looks on paper, but I would hesitate to put it in an expensive or irreplaceable pen. (The scan exaggerates the differences between this ink and the one above.)

10. Herbin Orange Indien adds both dirt and red to make a very legible ink -- more so than this XF nib might suggest. (The pen was already inked when I decided to do these tests.) Whatever color you call it this has long been my #1 "orange", though I can't say I use a lot of any orange ink.

11. Diamine Vermillion is an extreme example of adding more red and it is redder than some of the inks called "red". (Red inks from Europe often look orangey to me.)

12. Diamine Ancient Copper is an interesting color. Depending on the paper, pen, or light, it can appear a dark orange, dark red, brown, or even purple. It is very legible. Here we might think of it as what happens if you add lots of dirt.

http://statland.org/PenPix/orange.jpg

[amberleadavis]

Looks great!

[senzen]

Left to right, Diamine Ancient Copper, J Herbin Orange Indien, Pelikan Edelstein Mandarin.

 

[amberleadavis]

NICE!

[HalloweenHJB]

A spectacularly generous benefactor has supplied me with several amazing new inks! Eternally grateful.

 

Here is the most amazing of the group: Krishna Jungle Volcano. A veritable sheen monster:

 

 

 

 

The sheen is intense —even on watercolor paper.

Edited March 3, 2018 by HalloweenHJB

[HalloweenHJB]

Another of the new inks is Krishna Orange Halloween —a color after my own heart. Very pretty, and with a more subtle sheen. YUM.

 

 

[HalloweenHJB]

And finally, a rather dark, and brooding orange from Krishna. Looks to be the color of certain very dark koi fish:

 

[HalloweenHJB]

A bottle of Monteverde's Copper Noir just arrived, and I was convinced that it was a near perfect doppelgänger for Krishna's Goldfish. It's close but not exact.

 

It's actually much closer to another Monteverde ink, Fire Opal. Not exact identical twins, but very close:

 

 

Close-up:

 

 

Fire Opal is still a touch brighter, while Copper Noir is a bit more brooding. I love them both, to be honest.

[amberleadavis]

Thank you!

[HalloweenHJB]

For those who enjoy the ORANGE inks, Robert Oster has both shimmer and non-shimmer versions of his "Orange RUMBLE" ink. Anderson Pens has the non-shimmer ink, while Pen Chalet has the "Shake 'N' Shimmer" type.

 

Here is the latter for your inspection: