Five Orange Inks

[fpupulin]

[...]I want a color that is still dark enough to write with. I have surprised myself with how much I like orange inks, because I generally don't care for the color orange.

 

 

In fact, DrPenfection, difficult is not to made an orange ink, but one that you can use in your pen as a normal ink, just orange in color...

 

A page written with a legible orange ink is often beautiful too see.

[FPscribe]

For a rich reddish-orange I would strongly recommend Diamine's Blood Orange.

[SpecTP]

I wonder how MB's Lucky Orange compares to these.

[Green Ink]

Thank you fpupulin. Gorgeous orange presentation!

[minddance]

For a rich reddish-orange I would strongly recommend Diamine's Blood Orange.

+1 for diamine blood orange: it is a 'real' writing ink for me, and gets only better in real wet pens. (for me, diamine pumpkin isn't)

[bobje]

This is fantastic. What wonderful calligraphy and photography. Please join us in Quote of the Week!

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/331473-qotw-2018/page-2

[Teacher Man]

Beautiful inks, beautiful calligraphy! Thank you so much for this.

[chenlozi]

Wow, your calligraphy is amazing! Thank you for posting. What a beautiful comparison.

 

Ive been trying to choose an darker orange ink for a while. I like Noodlers Apache Sunset and similar inks for their shading, but I would also like something a bit darker and more saturated.

 

If I could, I would get the Lamy ink but Im guessing that is incredibly hard to get hold of now. The Yu-Yake looks beautiful in your photographs though...

[Torrilin]

These are done dipped. If you just fill with a cartridge Sunrise Orange comes out a lot the way Charged Orange appears here. No samples at present since I have rather limited pen options for standard cartridges.

 

You’d need a rather wet pen to get Sunrise Orange to read this dark normally.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I wonder how MB's Lucky Orange compares to these.

Just sort of orange, nothing special. No shading I noticed. Only used it once.*** I'd not bought it, but my wife won something at a live auction, and my B&M was only a block out of her way, so she thought to do me some good, buying the MB orange, yellow and Miles Davis.

Didn't have any dark Kaweco Orange either; just orange and not quite as good as reviews led me to hope for.

My first orange ....so my basis color was a @1990 Pelikan orange cartridge. That was and still is a good orange. I didn't like what I saw of Pelikan Mandarin, no shading.

Some day I'll get that Herbin Orange. It's been on my to get list for the longest time.

But I'm not heavy into orange.

 

***At first I was impressed, but it turned out my pen was a tad dirty. In a clean pen....nothing special.

Might have to go to the ink mixing section to see how to make it a bit more spiffy....a few drops of this, that or another ink.

 

I do like Apache Sunset.....

Edited April 17, 2018 by Bo Bo Olson