2018 Lamy Inks Leaked By Fontoplumo

[sentience]

Here they are! https://twitter.com/fontoplum0/status/1029339277623222273?s=21

 

[acornham]

OOH. I love it. But it does seem a lot like a certain other German company's gemstone line.

[Flippy]

Like what I'm seeing! Might need to snag a Peridot...

[acornham]

I assume Lamy is keeping their normal line of inks?

[Flippy]

I assume Lamy is keeping their normal line of inks?

I didn't hear anything about cancelling their normal line so hopefully I'm correct when I say no...???

 

Meh, maybe.

[Cyber6]

30ml ??? Anyone knows the price??

[Cyber6]

And... CAn SOMEONE please come up with names other than GEMSTONES??... Really people, dont' they have a department they pay good money SPECIFICALLY to come up with names.....

[TSherbs]

huh

[inkstainedruth]

OOH. I love it. But it does seem a lot like a certain other German company's gemstone line.

 

Just thinking the same thing. And also thinking of the Monteverde inks.

OTOH, some of the colors look quite interesting. I could definitely see myself using Beryl and Benitoite, and maybe even Azurite (if the written part next to the swab is at all accurate...). Could this be what I've been searching for? A better behaved version of Noodler's Kung Te Cheng? Probably not -- but a girl can dream.

Rhodonite looks pretty -- but it also looks kinda like Vibrant Pink without the metallic dust in it.... As for the rest? Meh.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[inotrym]

They're interesting, after all. Good for them!

 

All in all I like smaller bottles (30ml is still a lot of ink), but I would prefer to see a smaller, cuter version of their iconic bottle.

I am afraid that they are going for a luxury line of inks pretty much as everyone else, though. I totally expect those bottles to retail for 12EUR...

[acornham]

They already have a cuter 30 mL bottle. It only comes in a few colors though, I think the standard red, blue, and black.

Edited August 14, 2018 by acornham

[ErrantSmudge]

At least they picked fairly uncommon gemstone names, for the most part.

 

And it doesn’t look like their past limited edition hits like Petrol, Dark Lilac and Copper Orange are returning. Other than the pinks, this is a pretty somber color palette.

 

Benitoite looks interesting for its hue (a slate blue-grey) as well as it being a document ink, something I have not previously seen from Lamy.

[TSherbs]

These aren't images of actual swabs. Look closely. They are computer generated graphics using the exact same template with digital colors filled in.

 

No idea what the inks actually look like.

[Astronymus]

And... CAn SOMEONE please come up with names other than GEMSTONES??... Really people, dont' they have a department they pay good money SPECIFICALLY to come up with names.....

In my personal experience "marketing people" are not among the smartest nor the most creative. Especially in Germany they tend to sell you what went well the last 50 years or what others had success with.

The creative work is done by others. And often ruined by the marketing staff.

 

These aren't images of actual swabs. Look closely. They are computer generated graphics using the exact same template with digital colors filled in.

 

No idea what the inks actually look like.

You will never know unless your screen and the file are calibrated. Edited August 14, 2018 by Astron

[Corona688]

Even then, you probably won't. Most any display made post-1997 has been carefully designed for the exacting color fidelity of a 1982 television. Any bright, saturated color will be out of gamut.

[sciumbasci]

So the trend of downsizing the bottle sizes and making them squareish (WHY??) is in full swing. First Pilot, then Sailor, now Lamy

I was really hoping for some convenient shape, such as Waterman's, Pelikan's or their own bottle.

[TSherbs]

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You will never know unless your screen and the file are calibrated.

Know what? I can already see that the swabs display is not a photograph of swabs. It is not a photograph of fountain pen ink. That is what I was pointing out.

[ErrantSmudge]

Know what? I can already see that the swabs display is not a photograph of swabs. It is not a photograph of fountain pen ink. That is what I was pointing out.

 

It's true they are not actual swabs, but it is true we now have a general idea what colors will be available. And we know Dark Lilac and other past hits aren't among them.

 

FPN members will post swabs and samples as soon as they get their hands on them, but at least I have an idea which colors I want to see more of and which ones I don't.

 

Finally, swabs can be notoriously unreliable. I have been at vendor booths at pen shows, looking at swab sample books with my own eyes, showing colors that were different than what actually came out of my pen.

Edited August 14, 2018 by ErrantSmudge

[Cyber6]

 

Finally, swabs can be notoriously unreliable. I have been at vendor booths at pen shows, looking at swab sample books with my own eyes, showing colors that were different than what actually came out of my pen.

 

 

I gave up on swabs eons ago.. LOL!!!.. Nowadays I prefer to use a paint knife for my swatches. A paint knife will give you enough variation that you can easily determine how the ink will look coming out a wet pen, dry pen and the kind of shading it will have.

 

 

 

 

C.

[TSherbs]

Sure. I'm just pointing out the fiction of this marketing image so that people don't get too caught up in what they see.