Ink Color Reflection Of Personality?

[Old_Inkyhand]

 

 

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.

You're right. My best friend, who's fairly conservative, used to like only dark, solid inks. I've (unconsciously) 'taught' him to use shading inks as well and now he likes them very much. He has also become more liberal when it comes to pens: in the beginning, he would buy only black pens with gold or silver trim. Now he's perfectly happy with a green or blue pen. I think that his political views have changed a little bit as well! The changes in his fountain-pen-and-ink preferences might have been also a result of having more pens. When one has many pens, he may start to think - well, maybe I should start exploring different colours!

[Ink Stained Wretch]

Well, I suppose that people who really believe in this stuff will have some sort of an opinion about me, but I just like variety these days.I have a rotation of six fountain pens, each loaded with a different color of ink. I have other pens too, and they are all over the spectrum with ink colors, generally.

 

I like having an obvious contrast between entries in my journal .

[Old_Inkyhand]

Well, I suppose that people who really believe in this stuff will have some sort of an opinion about me, but I just like variety these days.I have a rotation of six fountain pens, each loaded with a different color of ink. I have other pens too, and they are all over the spectrum with ink colors, generally.

 

I like having an obvious contrast between entries in my journal .

I actually have similar views on that. I dislike some colours simply because of their aesthetics, not because of any psychological traits of mine, I believe. But since I have quite a few friends who are hooked on psychology and like to analyse various aspects of everyday life, I am eager to 'help' those who are interested in this matter. Some general preferences are probably linked to the way one perceives fountain pens (an elderly, stolid professional rather won't like writing with some bright pink or purple ink, and a little girl probably won't be happy with a black ink). However, some people may choose to express themselves through their choices and in their case such an analyse would be more accurate.

[sanjay_111]

Well, I suppose that people who really believe in this stuff will have some sort of an opinion about me, but I just like variety these days.I have a rotation of six fountain pens, each loaded with a different color of ink. I have other pens too, and they are all over the spectrum with ink colors, generally.

 

I like having an obvious contrast between entries in my journal .

 

 

Sounds like a liberal-leaning personality. It is likely that you prefer ink shaded than "solid" and lighter colors rather than dark, nearly black ones. I am not a psychology junkie. I was just curious about it, because I thought some of my choices were rooted in my personality. But I have now become quite curious about it.

[amberleadavis]

 

Baloney!

 

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

[DrDebG]

After reading many of these posts, it is probably better that I not comment.

[escribo]

You're right. My best friend, who's fairly conservative, used to like only dark, solid inks. I've (unconsciously) 'taught' him to use shading inks as well and now he likes them very much. He has also become more liberal when it comes to pens: in the beginning, he would buy only black pens with gold or silver trim. Now he's perfectly happy with a green or blue pen. I think that his political views have changed a little bit as well! The changes in his fountain-pen-and-ink preferences might have been also a result of having more pens. When one has many pens, he may start to think - well, maybe I should start exploring different colours!

 

I think I may be like your friend. I do like black pens, and have many--those are the ones I "take out in public" or in "polite company." Heh. That, and just that I like the classic understated look. But for me colored pens are more due to a practical matter. I keep my 'in the rotation' pens in coffee mugs, the nicer ones in individual velvet drawstring pouches (before anyone starts wringing their hands and moaning). Seeing colors in a sea of black caps helps me pick out the ones that are maybe a bit more fun or off the wall. I've been thinking about a neon green TWSBI; I don't have a neon green pen yet.

[rudyhou]

i'm an admirer and user of grey and brown inks. i wonder what does that say about me...

[sanjay_111]

i'm an admirer and user of grey and brown inks. i wonder what does that say about me...

Conservative, traditional. Perhaps a little introverted, intellectual type.

[praxim]

 

 

 

I am currently looking for stripey ink with which to paint Rorschach blots.

[rudyhou]

Conservative, traditional. Perhaps a little introverted, intellectual type.

 

thanks. i can live with that. i was expecting worse

[sanjay_111]

thanks. i can live with that. i was expecting worse

Is it correct?

[Mercian]

I am currently looking for stripey ink with which to paint Rorschach blots.

You'll find it in your local hardware store, next to the tins of Tartan paint

[party cat]

I like green quink; A 'normal' green, formal enough, cheap, works well opposite red. My paper isn't completely white so it probably comes out a bit darker too.

 

Black, and blue don't seem to work for me. I'm not too keen on light or fancy colours. Currently using a purple, which is okay but it's no green .

 

Wouldn't mind a grey though...

[sanjay_111]

I like green quink; A 'normal' green, formal enough, cheap, works well opposite red. My paper isn't completely white so it probably comes out a bit darker too.

 

Black, and blue don't seem to work for me. I'm not too keen on light or fancy colours. Currently using a purple, which is okay but it's no green .

 

Wouldn't mind a grey though...

Has anyone told you that you are kind of soft and not very decisive, Sort of easy going type?

[Manalto]

I like 'em all, from deep, rich black to retina-searing orange. I don't use them all because pink would necessitate learning to dot my "i's" with a circle (or a heart), and I simply don't have the patience for that.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Eventually one has many different colored inks.

I had never even thought of green inks until I got a cheap bottle of 4001 on sale. With in the next year I got 11 green or greenish inks.

I can remember my first brown, first purple. Back in silver dime days, boys were trained to be black, blue or BB only...all other colors were girly colors.

 

Some folks only use a fountain pen only for work...so don't have any fun with color not even at home.

Their twin uses a BP in for both IMO writing is work....never fun.

[rudyhou]

Is it correct?

 

pretty much. very close indeed.

[ac12]

Some colors just do not work for ink. At least for me. Examples:

• I would wear a light blue shirt, but light blue ink is too hard to see and read, especially out of a F or XF nib.

• I do not use BRIGHT inks of any color, because in any more than a couple of lines, it becomes too bright for my eyes to handle.

• Some light inks have a low contrast to the paper, making some of them difficult to read on WHITE paper. I tried yellow ink on white paper, and I could barely see the ink. So from a practical point of view, this cuts out all the lighter colors. If I have trouble reading the ink, why use it???

• With F and XF nibs, I am driven to darker inks, simply because the lighter or even medium tone inks end up looking washed out, because of the narrow ink line. To use a lighter or medium tone ink I need a M or wider nib, to put down a wide enough ink line to make the ink color stand out.

[rudyhou]

 

Some colors just do not work for ink. At least for me. Examples:

• I would wear a light blue shirt, but light blue ink is too hard to see and read, especially out of a F or XF nib.

• I do not use BRIGHT inks of any color, because in any more than a couple of lines, it becomes too bright for my eyes to handle.

• Some light inks have a low contrast to the paper, making some of them difficult to read on WHITE paper. I tried yellow ink on white paper, and I could barely see the ink. So from a practical point of view, this cuts out all the lighter colors. If I have trouble reading the ink, why use it???

• With F and XF nibs, I am driven to darker inks, simply because the lighter or even medium tone inks end up looking washed out, because of the narrow ink line. To use a lighter or medium tone ink I need a M or wider nib, to put down a wide enough ink line to make the ink color stand out.

 

 

i think this applies to most people. what this topic focuses on is more to what basic color one tends to use, not how light/dark the the chosen color is.