Your Favorite Purple Black Inks

[EBGBs]

Thank you Amber for getting me to see Private Reserve Ebony Purple. It went from unknown-to-me a minute ago to straight on the to-buy list.

[PurplePlum]

Diamine Grape is a nice purple black with very nice shading in a flex nib.

[PurplePlum]

Here are my swatches for Diamine Grape on different paper.

[PurplePlum]

And the other sides.

[Mech-for-i]

Is Diamine Damson considered purple-black? If it is, then it is certainly one of my favourites

 

+1 here, ut its more like black with a hint of purple though

[77kath]

Eclipse!

 

(sorry, that's not black enough)

Yes, it is! I vote for this one too.

[amberleadavis]

@PurplePlum, thank you.

[amberleadavis]

Do we have some pictures of Eclipse?

[PurplePlum]

@PurplePlum, thank you.

My pleasure Amber :-)

[LizB]

Lamy Dark Lilac (yay!)

 

 

I have a couple more that would suit here... let me try and find pics

 

 

(Diamine Purple Pizzazz, Cult Pens Deep Dark Purple, maybe Oster Purple Rock - more of a purple-grey)

Edited October 31, 2018 by LizB

[MKeith]

Diamine Amazing Amethyst. It goes on dark and settles to a dusky purple.

[A Smug Dill]

[Mongoosey]

*Thumbs Up*

 

That's a beauty.

[MG66]

I think "Ink of the Witch " would pass for black for just about anyone. I can't see any purple in mine at all.

 

YMMV

[Pentasy]

This is odd, I have been thinking about this question today, while pondering the next inking of a Nakaya Piccolo. And now here I find this same question on FPN. Must be fate.

 

So my answer is....... Robert Oster Barossa Grape.

[Aquaria]

I have a lot of dark purples, but they're not quite purple-black: Poussiere de Lune, Lamy Dark Lilac, and Franklin Christoph Tenebris Purpuratum. Although the F-C comes closest to purple-black in a wet writer.

 

Franklin Christoph Noir et Blue is supposedly a blue-black, but with every nib/paper combo for which I've used it, it skews decidedly purple-black. Which is why it's one of my very favorite blue-black inks.

[ENewton]

Robert Oster Barossa Grape.

 

In what pen? I had high hopes for this ink, but in pen after pen, it turned out to be a pale liver color.

[amberleadavis]

I thought that since it's FP Day, I'd go gind some ink. And I got distracted and spent money on buying nibs that use more ink.

[Pentasy]

 

In what pen? I had high hopes for this ink, but in pen after pen, it turned out to be a pale liver color.

 

actually, in every pen I have used it in. Currently in a well tuned Mottishaw Stub, but also in less exotic nibs like all kinds of Twsbis. It has been a favourite of mine and runs dark and juicy every time.

Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy the ink as much. Maybe a batch problem?

[ENewton]

 

actually, in every pen I have used it in. Currently in a well tuned Mottishaw Stub, but also in less exotic nibs like all kinds of Twsbis. It has been a favourite of mine and runs dark and juicy every time.

Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy the ink as much. Maybe a batch problem?

 

Thank you. I suspect that TWSBIs are wetter than any of my pens. I also have difficulty getting a bold line out of Rohrer & Klingner Scabiosa, which is similar in appearance. Here's an interesting comparison review:

 

https://vanness1938.com/blogs/news/robert-oster-barossa-grape-rohrer-klingner-scabiosa-ink-review