What's Your Signature Color?

[ehemem]

Black.

[sanjay_111]

I am new to this hobby. But already have my favorite color - brown. Either Waterman or PR Chocolat

[eharriett]

Noodler's Air Corp Blue Black, when the ink is in a vintage pen. Private Reserve Ebony Blue when it is in a modern pen. They're the same color, as far as I can tell (so is vintage Skrip #22 Blue Black, but I'm running out and need to get more). When I need a permanent quality to the ink it will be Noodler's Legal Lapis, which is just a touch different but close enough no one notices unless comparing side by side.

 

All of those colors are the same blue black with a touch of green. The color is, as far as I can tell, unique commercially to fountain pen ink, and it has become my identifying mark.

[dojocho]

Binder Burgundy/Diamine Syrah

[otw]

Mine is also Pilot Blue-Black.

[perfaddict]

Montblanc Permanent Blue.

[MadTheNeko]

Monopol black.

[HalloweenHJB]

Just about any color of RED, the deeper and richer, the better. If I had to choose just one, it would probably be J. Herbin Rouge Hématite (without sparkles).

Edited May 6, 2017 by HalloweenHJB

[Barkingpig]

I would suggest a wonderful mixture of Montblanc's Winter Glow & Alfred Hitchcock is a wonderful red; one I filled a Lamy Al Star, Ruthenium, which arrived yesterday & I wanted a "special" ink for it's first fill.

 

This was indeed a VERY special Red, one that I had never seen in either of it's counterparts so it was an especially nice experience for me. A person with a fondness for Red can be counted on for some mighty fine examples of same; Thank you for sharing.

[inkstainedruth]

I don't think I have a signature color. There are too many different ones I like. And my tastes have definitely changed in 5 years -- I went from bright purples and medium blues to all sorts of muted (but not murky) subtly colored inks.

About the only things I *don't* like? Most oranges and orange/reds, nearly all blood reds/burgundies, most green-leaning teals and blue/teal leaning greens, bright grass greens, and murky greens. Also, I haven't really found a yellow/gold because most inks in that range are too light to be legible.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[MHBru]

My first inky love is kon-peki but I recently started having an affair with ku-jaku. Just love Iroshizuku inks.

[xiewadu]

A different color with every paragraph. I try to have at least one for every part of the color spectrum.

[ParkerDuofold]

Hi all,

 

Probably Diamine Chocolate or Asa Blue.

 

PR Electric D.C. Blue @ work.

 

- Anthony

Edited June 9, 2017 by ParkerDuofold

[Sasha Royale]

I don't one. I make my own envelopes.

[thygreyt]

For signatures i do it all with Montblanc Permanent blue... if it needs be done on black, then its noodlers black.

 

For writing my preference is blue, but i have a bit of them all

[goodpens]

I am new to this hobby. But already have my favorite color - brown. Either Waterman or PR Chocolat

 

Brown for me, too, though it isn't necessarily just one ink. I like both of the ones sanjay_111 mentions, but am currently using Diamine Chocolate and Herben Lie de Thé.

 

When I was working as an editor where we passed around hardcopies of text that were marked by various people in the office, my color was usually purple. It wasn't formalized, but each editor tended to use a particular color, which helped us distinguish which comments came from which editor. I used purple; J used green; C used red; D used blue; and the editor-in-chief (a frequent pen thief) used whatever pen was closest--often black, which is really difficult to see as an editing color.

[pajaro]

Sailor dark purple. No J-speak, no windy bs.

[PaganArcher]

Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses, Tsuki-yo, or Syo-ro.

[FordPrefect8]

Sailor Yama Dori, occasionally Diamine Schubert but those are not far from each other anyway

[Arkanabar]

My workhorse ink was PIFfed to me, Noodler's Red-Black. It works really well, but once it's gone, I plan not to get any more. I might make something like it with the bottles of Widow Maker and Rattler Red Eel also on hand, though. (My wife can be kind of impulsive when she visits the local pen and stationery shop.) The same thing goes for another ink (or two) that were given to me -- Waterman Purple and Iro Ku-Jaku.