Ink Color Reflection Of Personality?

[sanjay_111]

Interesting reading these posts. I am more convinced than ever that color preferences - clothing, ink, anything else, reflect inner selves. For myself, I prefer teals, browns and blues in inks, and blues and browns in attire. And what I read about these colors and what I have been told about me certainly matches.

[sanjay_111]

BTW, I do not think using a specific color will change your personality, so I would only use browns if you really like them, and not use them to appear "solid, dependable" ....

I agree, the preferences should be made by what we really like. Not to make a statement. Though I am convinced now that the natural preference will emerge out of who we are.

[ItsMeDave]

I don't think ink preference reflects your personality, I prefer green, black and brown inks, but my favourite colour is yellow. I'm still on the lookout for a nice yellow fountain pen, no luck yet.

[Noihvo]

My ink color taste is all over the map. You can chalk that up to me having a BFA in Art. Or being a Libra (and therefore TOTALLY indecisive... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[Mercian]

Interesting you say that. I read somewhere that people using green color are not taken very seriously. You seem to be saying the same thing. I don't at all not take your seriously as you can see from my reply. If you have some research or something that supports what I vaguely remember about green, please share. I would like to keep it in my archives

I was poking fun at myself.

 

Here in Britain, the term 'letter written in green ink' is used to refer to the sort of long-winded, rambling, non-sensical letters written to newspaper editors that make the editor think that the letter-writer is a crazy person.

For further explanation, see the following links:

 

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/green-ink_letter

 

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Green_ink

 

In addition to occasionally writing with green ink on paper, I must admit that my posts on FPN tend to be long and rambling (I am undoubtedly a prolix blatherskite); that I often employ bafflingly 'idiosyncratic' capitalisation, and; that I also like to pepper my posts with lots of punctuation and changes of formatting.

Then we must also allow for the fact that my opinions (across many topics) are often 'out-of-step' with the majority within society, and that they are usually strongly-held.

 

In short, it is almost as though the British cultural connotations of the term 'green ink' were created specifically with me in mind

 

The first step in the process of trying to correct one's faults is, surely, to acknowledge that those faults exist...

I must admit, alas, that so far I do not seem to have made much progress since taking that first step

[sanjay_111]

Thanks for educating me Mercian. I actually know someone who always writes in green ink! Now I know the word to describe him.

[inkstainedruth]

 

 

Well, I started out having absolutely no use for blue-black inks, and then discovered ones I really like. I discovered that I mostly dislike blue/teal leaning greens, and prefer the ones that lean more towards the yellow side of the spectrum, but are still definitely green (which is weird because it's a color I can't wear at ALL).

I haven't really found any bright yellows I like and which are legible, but a couple of tans and brownish yellows are okay (yet I LOVE yellow flowers; and I bought a couple of vintage pens simply because they were bright yellow). But I still haven't found an orange or red-orange ink I could stomach (the best I'll do is the original formula of J Herbin Rouge Hematite, which is sort of brick red for the base color).

I thought I was the blue/purple/pink/silver grey girl; but I knew I had to try Noodler's El Lawrence after seeing a review a couple of years ago and it was like watching a car wreck -- I couldn't look away (I kept muttering "That's one weirdoes color" to myself, and then looking at the photos, over and over...). It's now one of my favorite inks -- go figure....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[KKay]

I love yellow too, but may have to get a yellow pen. I don't care for yellow ink, at least none I've seen. Sailor should bring back Amanita muscaria. I LOVE THAT INK. But I can't get it anywhere. Someone gave me a sample of it a good while back. Since then I found Diamine-Sunset, and KWZ-Grapefruit. They aren't as good as that Sailor ink in the red-orange category. But I do like them both a lot. I was going to get Tekker to make that ink look alike for me, but they stopped doing business. They never replied to my query about that ink. I have tried El Lawerence, but it was all black for me. (and thick) I wanted green with it. I also tried Zhivago, and liked it a lot, but once again, all black with just a tiny bit of a lighter color. I thought of my new bottle will show the green...not really. After all I read about El Lawrence, I was all set to love it too. I already have solid black ink, and don't need more.

Edited March 27, 2017 by KKay

[Pensei]

Anybody old enough to remember this? It was sort of a thing when I was in college.

http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/kolor-index2.php

[Old_Inkyhand]

I think that my ink choice reflects my personality in general, rather than any specific characteristics. A few weeks ago a friend of mine, who is a psychology student, asked me to pass a 16 personalities test (more serious than these online quiz games, based on a book with a few hundreds of questions). I am - supposedly - a INTJ, leaning towards INFJ. Quite a good match, I believe.

 

When it comes to inks, I like complex colours, pronounced, but gradual shading, warm tints. I am not a fan of inks that are very bright, very light, flat or somehow dirty in colour (I like colours hidden in a dark room, but I don't like colours mixed with mud).

 

I usually dislike: blurples, menthol green, blue-leaning greens in general, bubble gum pink, red so pale that it looks like orange/pink, browns so green that they remind me of horse poop, greyish green, red-leaning browns, cold grey.

 

I usually like: fresh, yellow-leaning greens (Robert Oster Jade), dark greens (GvFC Moss Green), olive greens (Sailor Tokiwa Matsu, MB Daniel Defoe), turquoise-leaning medium blues (MB Leo Tolstoy), readable orange-leaning yellows (KWZ El Dorado, Robert Oster Yellow Sunset) and yellow-leaning oranges (Sailor Kin-Mokusei), dark chocolate browns (Diamine Chocolate Brown, Kaweco Caramel Brown), golden browns (J. Herbin Lie de The, KWZ Honey), blues with a touch of green - blue/teal (Sailor Yama Dori, Robert Oster Fire and Ice), dark, warm purples (MB Lavender Purple), dark orchid pink (Iroshizuku Yama-Budo from time to time), dark 'bloody' reds (MB William Shakespeare), dark burgundy (KWZ Maroon), warm grey (GvFC Stone Grey).

 

Hmm.

Edited March 27, 2017 by Old_Inkyhand

[sanjay_111]

Inky_hand, a very complex personality! I drop my plans to analyze the personality from ink colors!! haha.

[amberleadavis]

Well, I am bright, loud, cheerful, retina searing and sometimes sparkly - just like my ink choices. (Which also means that I'm not shady, wishy-washy, undecided, or murky and I'm certainly not dark or brooding). I'm decidedly the uncomplicated personality and I like my inks uncomplicated.

[amberleadavis]

Anybody old enough to remember this? It was sort of a thing when I was in college.

http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/kolor-index2.php

 

 

Oh, I love it.

 

http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/r3.gif http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/r2.gif http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/r4.gif

Hungers for intensity in life and welcomes opportunity to take on challenges and puts everything in motion to solve them actively. Makes concentrated and focused use of energy. Wants not to go off in too many directions at once, in spite of restless activity and initiative. Wants efforts to be crowned by impressive success. Therefore not inclined to take time out for rest and relaxation.

 

 

http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/b3.gif http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/b1.gif http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/b2.gif

Wants to be totally immersed with intense enthusiasm and engaged communion in the beloved or a personal task and activity. Finds the beloved or a personal task to be what makes life worthwhile and its dominating force, bringing true contentment and fulfillment. But the expectation is that the partner will also bring unconditional and undivided attentiveness to the relationship. That is seen as an important prerequisite to a dependable and secure relationship.

[Olya]

This has become quite an interesting thread!

I am not too sure whether ink colour preference plays a huge role in my case. I love all kinds of colours, from bright to dark, pastels, but also saturated colours. Blue is a strong favourite, any shade of it (from aqua to teal to blurple to true blue); red is another favourite, also in most shades (incl pink). Green only as long as it has little to no yellow in it, and I'm coming around to yellow and orange these days, but like those rather sparingly. And purple I also like. (Basically I like most colours as long as they are not murky, look like vomit or other disgusting stuff)

 

In terms of ink though I went from adventorous to quite conservative and only now, many years later, have I realized that I always had the same preferences in terms of ink, but was never aware of it.

 

In primary school, starting with pencils, I used to grab the black wax pencil, instead of the regular HB one, because I found the HB too light. Took a couple of weeks to get me off that. After that only washable blue was allowed and my mum somehow for some irrational reason absolutely strongly dislikes black ink, which made me shun black ink too.

So I used blue ink, and when I came into this hobby used all kinds of blue inks (which I still love), but some of the more retina searing blues (esp turquoise for instance) makes it at times hard to read what I wrote and a bit of a pain in the bum, and occasionaly the eye (not literal pain, mind). I have now embraced my love for black ink and use it quite regularly, and usually stick to darker blues, which may lean to teal or blurple, as long as they don't look like I might need sunglasses reading in the future.

The brighter (for me) stuff I reserve for smaller stuff, when it tickles my fancy, and to smaller texts.

 

Hence, I am not sure my preferences in ink colour reflect my personality, because I might well be clothed in some brighter blouse, have a pastel or brightly coloured pen, which is loaded with black or (dark/ish) blue ink..

Edited March 27, 2017 by Olya

[inkstainedruth]

 

 

 

Oh, I love it.

 

http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/r3.gif http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/r2.gif http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/r4.gif

Hungers for intensity in life and welcomes opportunity to take on challenges and puts everything in motion to solve them actively. Makes concentrated and focused use of energy. Wants not to go off in too many directions at once, in spite of restless activity and initiative. Wants efforts to be crowned by impressive success. Therefore not inclined to take time out for rest and relaxation.

 

 

http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/b3.gif http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/b1.gif http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/b2.gif

Wants to be totally immersed with intense enthusiasm and engaged communion in the beloved or a personal task and activity. Finds the beloved or a personal task to be what makes life worthwhile and its dominating force, bringing true contentment and fulfillment. But the expectation is that the partner will also bring unconditional and undivided attentiveness to the relationship. That is seen as an important prerequisite to a dependable and secure relationship.

 

 

Huh. My first and second choices were the exact opposite of yours, and the third choices for each were the one I discarded entirely (I didn't save the description, but it didn't sound all that much like me except in snatches).

This went around colleges, huh? Back when I was a senior in college (early 1980s) it was "Purity Tests". I scored low enough on the Harvard on that the freshman guys in my dorm saw me in a whole new light.... Oh and I borrowed the tests from someone to type over, and discovered that the men's test only had 99 questions (they skipped one in the middle) -- so there was zero way a guy could rate as 100% pure....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Sandy1]

Well, I am bright, loud, cheerful, retina searing and sometimes sparkly - just like my ink choices. (Which also means that I'm not shady, wishy-washy, undecided, or murky and I'm certainly not dark or brooding). I'm decidedly the uncomplicated personality and I like my inks uncomplicated.

 

 

Baloney!

 

How can one describe the colours revealed in a finely cut diamond?

Edited March 28, 2017 by Sandy1

[Old_Inkyhand]

Inky_hand, a very complex personality! I drop my plans to analyze the personality from ink colors!! haha.

In general, I like subdued, complex colours, both in ink and in everyday life I like to wear dark, professional clothes matched with a colourful element - like a brick red jacket or green leather shoes. I like to be different, but I am by no means extraverted. I'm a likeable weirdo

[sanjay_111]

In general, I like subdued, complex colours, both in ink and in everyday life I like to wear dark, professional clothes matched with a colourful element - like a brick red jacket or green leather shoes. I like to be different, but I am by no means extraverted. I'm a likeable weirdo

 

 

I am curious now. Can you tell me this - do you like high shading in ink, or do you prefer the ink to be "solid"? I am ending up doing the opposite of what I said - I am analyzing your personality!!

[Old_Inkyhand]

 

 

I am curious now. Can you tell me this - do you like high shading in ink, or do you prefer the ink to be "solid"? I am ending up doing the opposite of what I said - I am analyzing your personality!!

Geez, I've accidentally deleted my post.

 

In general, I prefer high shading. I dislike flat/solid inks.

But even in the domain of shading, I have my own preferences.

 

Here we have Iroshizuku Yu-Yake, picture by Goulet Pens. This shading just doesn't do it for me. This ink seems to shade from orange to pale orange, like if the pen had some flow issues or was simply dry.

 

Another picture, by Ana from the Well-Appointed Desk, shows KWZ Honey. Now, that's what I like. It shades gradually from brown to yellow, stays legible and easy on the eyes, it is simply interesting. It shows that the ink is complex.

 

The last picture shows Noodler's Apache Sunset by our fellow member mhphoto. For me, this shading is too dramatic. I mean - everything would be fine if there were more colours between the most extreme ones. If this transition was smoother. Now it looks like one of Amberlea's fade tests The upper part of the letter seems to be separated from the lower part.

 

I like wet pens, broad nibs, flex nibs, stubs.

Edited March 28, 2017 by Old_Inkyhand

[sanjay_111]

Geez, I've accidentally deleted my post.

 

In general, I prefer high shading. I dislike flat/solid inks.

But even in the domain of shading, I have my own preferences.

 

Here we have Iroshizuku Yu-Yake, picture by Goulet Pens. This shading just doesn't do it for me. This ink seems to shade from orange to pale orange, like if the pen had some flow issues or was simply dry.

 

Another picture, by Ana from the Well-Appointed Desk, shows KWZ Honey. Now, that's what I like. It shades gradually from brown to yellow, stays legible and easy on the eyes, it is simply interesting. It shows that the ink is complex.

 

The last picture shows Noodler's Apache Sunset by our fellow member mhphoto. For me, this shading is too dramatic. I mean - everything would be fine if there were more colours between the most extreme ones. If this transition was smoother. Now it looks like one of Amberlea's fade tests The upper part of the letter seems to be separated from the lower part.

 

I like wet pens, broad nibs, flex nibs, stubs.

 

 

I guessed you like shaded inks in general. Ink choices, like every thing else about us, do reflect our personalities. I think you are more liberal and open minded kind of person. A conservative like me prefers un-shaded, solid and dark inks.