Parker '51' Aero-Metric Navy Grey

[mitto]

Two groups of countries divided by a common language. Color and colour. . .

Program and programme...

[inkstainedruth]

Ironically, I actually think "grey" looks better as a spelling than "gray". Somehow it seems to be a little softer, if that makes any sense. Even though I don't use English spellings (or pronunciations, for that matter) for other words.

As to the matter at hand, I didn't realize that Navy Grey was such an interesting looking 51 color.... I might have pegged that as being a green.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mitto]

Ironically, I actually think "grey" looks better as a spelling than "gray". Somehow it seems to be a little softer, if that makes any sense. Even though I don't use English spellings (or pronunciations, for that matter) for other words.

As to the matter at hand, I didn't realize that Navy Grey was such an interesting looking 51 color.... I might have pegged that as being a green.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

It is a camera friendly color. The camera almost always make it green or greenish. And yes, there are grey 51s that actually look greenish even in person.

Edited June 27, 2016 by mitto

[usk15]

Ironically, I actually think "grey" looks better as a spelling than "gray". Somehow it seems to be a little softer, if that makes any sense. Even though I don't use English spellings (or pronunciations, for that matter) for other words.

As to the matter at hand, I didn't realize that Navy Grey was such an interesting looking 51 color.... I might have pegged that as being a green.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Sometimes, in different light shades the pen looks like a greenish colour. Specially in artificial light, not direct in the sunlight.

[mitto]

Just took this picture in natural daylight and the grey pen still looks green.

 

 

 

 

[pajaro]

Some of the navy gray 51s seem to have turned a light greenish gray. That's not in photos or in a certain light, they just seem to have turned greenish. The ones like this that I have had I used a Kullock shell and barrel on to turn them some more interesting color. I did the same with some black 51s. I don't particularly like black pens, and that greenish shade of navy gray (note the spelling, g-r-a-y), is a bit sickening. Good Kullock fodder.

[mitto]

Lol, Pejaro. So you would do that to us? Saying our pens were kullock fodder and imposing upon us the spelling of your choice for the grey ( note the spelling g-r-e-y)?

[pajaro]

Lol, Pejaro. So you would do that to us? Saying our pens were kullock fodder and imposing upon us the spelling of your choice for the grey ( note the spelling g-r-e-y)?

Depends on your color preferences in 51s. Black and gray were ones I repurposed. You can spell gray as you like. It tends to place you geographically.