Fritz Schimpf niebla (misty violet)

[brokenclay]

Fritz Schimpf is a stationer in Tübingen, Germany, and this is one of their seven (as of this writing) house-branded inks, made by L'Artisan Pastellier.

 

niebla (Spanish for mist or fog) is a muted purple grey. It is available in a 30ml bottle for 6.95€, although I have also seen a smaller 5ml sample bottle, provided with the purchase of a pen.

 

 

 

 

[yazeh]

Love your handwriting and the quote.

The ink....

[brokenclay]

2 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Love your handwriting and the quote.

The ink....

 

I'm not very pleased with my photographic skills, I'm afraid. The ink is just barely on the purple side of grey. A good stealth ink for work.

[yazeh]

 

2 minutes ago, brokenclay said:

 

I'm not very pleased with my photographic skills, I'm afraid. The ink is just barely on the purple side of grey. A good stealth ink for work.

I appreciate it. I find it reflects the ink.. soberly elegant

[LizEF]

Hmm.  Might be that I'm overly-influenced by the fact that my voters have had me drowning in grey inks lately, but this is a bit too muted for me...   Appreciate the review though - off to check out the other colors...

[A Smug Dill]

2 hours ago, brokenclay said:

I'm not very pleased with my photographic skills, I'm afraid.

 

Thanks for sharing and showcasing the ink all the same!

 

2 hours ago, brokenclay said:

The ink is just barely on the purple side of grey. A good stealth ink for work.

 

You should try Sailor Shikiori Chushu, then, which looks decidedly even less purple than this, but still with purple undertones. To my eyes, this looks ‘halfway’ between Chushu and its sibling Shigure.

 

By the way, 80g/m³ is supremely lightweight paper, hehe!

[brokenclay]

1 hour ago, A Smug Dill said:

By the way, 80g/m³ is supremely lightweight paper, hehe!

 

Indeed! Nothing like copying to propagate an error widely...and not something easily fixable. <chagrin>

[mizgeorge]

I like this one too - but then I like murky...

[PithyProlix]

Ohhhh, be still my beating heart! Right up my alley. Thank you for showing us! 

[Frank C]

20 hours ago, brokenclay said:

 

I'm not very pleased with my photographic skills, I'm afraid. The ink is just barely on the purple side of grey. A good stealth ink for work.

The photography is fine. It conveys your message well. As for stealth inks, I love them. I'm supposed to use black ink at work. I like to push the limits of most stupid rules, so I use stealth inks when I can. Of course, the whole reason to mandate black ink is so that the original photocopy machines could copy the writing; they didn't even pick up blue. Nowadays, photocopiers can turn almost any color into a shade of gray. But the rules have never been updated. 

[inkstainedruth]

6 hours ago, Frank C said:

The photography is fine. It conveys your message well. As for stealth inks, I love them. I'm supposed to use black ink at work. I like to push the limits of most stupid rules, so I use stealth inks when I can. Of course, the whole reason to mandate black ink is so that the original photocopy machines could copy the writing; they didn't even pick up blue. Nowadays, photocopiers can turn almost any color into a shade of gray. But the rules have never been updated. 

And of course red would come through on a printer as black as well (I used to layout and pasteup professionally).  

The last place I worked before getting married had a computerized stat camera that even could be programmed to pick up and print non-repro blue (this was in the mid-1980s) and I have no idea how much that thing cost -- I just know that they had to bring it in via a forklift through the window, which had to be broken and replaced, because it was too heavy to get up the stairs to the second floor....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[N1003U]

On 5/30/2021 at 1:55 AM, A Smug Dill said:

 

Thanks for sharing and showcasing the ink all the same!

 

 

You should try Sailor Shikiori Chushu, then, which looks decidedly even less purple than this, but still with purple undertones. To my eyes, this looks ‘halfway’ between Chushu and its sibling Shigure.

 

By the way, 80g/m³ is supremely lightweight paper, hehe!

😛 What's an extra dimension or two or three amongst friends...

 

I too, find Niebla a very pleasant gray ink that sometimes requires careful observation to realize that it has a purple shade.

 

 

[namrehsnoom]

Nice colour for use at work. I like this one. 

[ENewton]

Very nice!  Thank you.

[MsRedpen]

Thank you for the review!

Looks great!

The review, handwriting - and the ink 🙂

[pgcauk]

I am a big Vivaldi fan (the Diamine ink, although the music is quite grand too!), so this looks appealing, but maybe similar? Will need to check out the postage for US import, but the price in euros is quite reasonable.

My current crush is Kobe #10 Mikage Grey, which costs $30 per bottle as an import, but does have fabulous Kobe properties!