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

February 11, 2024

Just got my bottle of Edelstein Mandarin.

This orange is slightly more yellow than the other orange inks in my collection. It seems dry on a glass nib, with acceptable (ie minimal) feathering on uncoated card stock.

I have Moonstone in a broad m205. Hopefully the Mandarin will behave similarly in the broad orange bird for which I bought the ink.

I'm bummed that the box arrived damaged - it matches damage on the package.

February 17, 2024

On 1/22/2024 at 6:57 AM, Baggins said:

Hi.

I loved Osters Burned Orange swatch I made on Tomoe River S. I have been using it on my Parker 75 Cisel Sterling with an 18k broad nib. But I find it dry? Would that be due to the nib or the ink being dryer?

Z.

'Zacly! I found this quite frustrating at first, in a dip pen or brush it's magnificent, all the way from rust to sheening-black, but in any fountain pen, fine or broad, it's anemic and flat. The best answer I could find was to stick to juicy nibs; dip-pens, flex nibs or fude.

This is not just specific to this ink, but seems common with orange and pink inks, both of which I love - they need wet pens!

Recent 'penventories' have shown that, out of my favorite palette of inks, some are better suited to fine nibs, some to broads and some, like this, to gushers, with a few, maybe, across the board?

February 17, 2024

Edited February 17, 2024 by Baggins
Forgot to quote now will have to redo the msg

February 17, 2024

14 hours ago, pgcauk said:

'Zacly! I found this quite frustrating at first, in a dip pen or brush it's magnificent, all the way from rust to sheening-black, but in any fountain pen, fine or broad, it's anemic and flat. The best answer I could find was to stick to juicy nibs; dip-pens, flex nibs or fude.

This is not just specific to this ink, but seems common with orange and pink inks, both of which I love - they need wet pens!

Recent 'penventories' have shown that, out of my favorite palette of inks, some are better suited to fine nibs, some to broads and some, like this, to gushers, with a few, maybe, across the board?

The best option for this color would probably be my Lamy 2000 B. But now it is inked with Diamines Ancient Copper, that marries very well with Iroful.
Maybe I will use it on my hocoro with the fudge nib and decoration of my letters. Maybe someone here can help for pen/paper combination for this ink. I really love the swatch I made on TR52…

January 7

Finally (really, it's been on my list since the Anderson Pens ThinkThursday review) pulled the plug on Kobe #11 Ikuta Orange. I hesitated so long as I have, love, but rarely use Taccia Koiame, which the Mountain Of Ink review shows as similar. Nope!
Kobe #11 is an extraordinary Vermilion, which really has strength and presence (a challenge for oranges!?) in a Japanese 'F' nib.
Absolute must try if you are looking for an orange/red that works in fine nibs. Legible, but neither eye-searing nor wan.

nb If you read the Wikipedia on Vermilion, this is the color used on "Red Letter Days" - but it's orange!

January 8

22 hours ago, pgcauk said:

Finally (really, it's been on my list since the Anderson Pens ThinkThursday review) pulled the plug on Kobe #11 Ikuta Orange. I hesitated so long as I have, love, but rarely use Taccia Koiame, which the Mountain Of Ink review shows as similar. Nope!
Kobe #11 is an extraordinary Vermilion, which really has strength and presence (a challenge for oranges!?) in a Japanese 'F' nib.
Absolute must try if you are looking for an orange/red that works in fine nibs. Legible, but neither eye-searing nor wan.

nb If you read the Wikipedia on Vermilion, this is the color used on "Red Letter Days" - but it's orange!

I can confirm Ikuta Orange and Koiame look nothing alike. Koiame is more of a "burnt orange" and Ikuta Orange leans much redder.

January 10

On 1/7/2025 at 6:36 PM, lgsoltek said:

Koiame is more of a "burnt orange" and Ikuta Orange leans much redder.

I think I translated "Koiame" as something like "Treacle", but nowadays more understood as "boiled sweets" (sinophiles please correct, I'm just a dabbler in Kanji etymology!). As an ex-Brit I have settled on "Barley Sugar" as my affectionate name.

. . . but yes, I think Taccia even refer to Koiame as a Yellow, so definitely on the Amber side of orange, whereas the Vermillion of Ikuta I have seen defined as "50:50 red/orange, but darker".

January 18

On 12/2/2014 at 10:27 PM, amberleadavis said:

Members ask ... What is the best ORANGE for (insert purpose). This thread is not for comparisons or detailed reviews. Merely for you to show us some of your samples.

Also, some ORANGES are actually red or pink so let's not get to crazy with eliminating colors. If it looks ORANGE to you, put it here.

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/fpn_1411440987__kandinskya.jpg

BTW, Blue was here.

Brown was there.

Red was in the woods.

Did you ask about violet (or was it vioLeNt) purples?

Green was leafing us.

Orange is bouncing around.

Black is back.

Here be Pink.

Yellow is Spot On.

Jim says we must share our Black-n-Blues or was it Blue-Blacks?

Hmmm....Amber, why do I only see URL to a jpg, not showing as an image here?

February 5

I have had, for many years, a mix of love and frustration for Diamine's Burnt Sienna. It's a wonderful bridge between orange and brown, it's really exciting to paint with or write with in a dip pen . . . but then it dries and becomes a kind of insipid hazelnut! In contrast with other strong colors it can regain its pop, but as a writing ink there's almost always a disappointment factor. So I'm giving a couple of the Ink Studio x73s a whirl. I already had a sample of 173 and a bottle of 373, so now I've added 573 and 873 to the mix (also 530 and 830, but that's a separate project that belongs with the Pinks). I am holding out hopes for #873!

February 5

Here's my Ink Studio X30 (vs Terre De Feu / Ume Murasaki) and X73 (vs Burnt Sienna) initial sample page. Interesting inks?! NB Taccia Ume Murasaki looks Brown (with a lovely pink wash!) in regular light, so I'm not even trying to adjust the scan here!).