What's your three most used inks?

[de_pen_dent]

I had around 50 ink bottles, and so i try to rotate regularly.     That said, gun to head, if i had to pick favorites to rotate more often, they would be:

- Iro Kujaku

- Iro Kon Peki

- Vinta Blue Blood

 

(I use a lot of greens, browns and purples - but none of them really stands out the way these three do)

[Runnin_Ute]

Hands down my absolutely most used ink is Pelikan 4001 Blue Black. I have finished off something north of 5 62.5 ml bottles.

I am on my second bottle (or more) of each of the following:

Waterman Serenity Blue (about ready to get another Serenity Blue)

Levenger Amethyst, Forest Green, Cobalt Blue, Blue Bahama (finished two of Pomegranate long discontinued)

KWZI El Dorado and Pine Green

Lamy Pacific/Turquoise

Edelstein Olivine

 

That's just off the top of my head. I have a bin full of empties downstairs.

[Mechanical]

24 minutes ago, Runnin_Ute said:

Hands down my absolutely most used ink is Pelikan 4001 Blue Black.

I love Pelikan Blue Black.  I always have it loaded in at least one pen and it is an ink that works everywhere and writes on most anything.

[Runnin_Ute]

41 minutes ago, Mechanical said:

I love Pelikan Blue Black.  I always have it loaded in at least one pen and it is an ink that works everywhere and writes on most anything.

Exactly. I have had it in my Pelikan 140 since the 140 arrived in August 2017.  There have been two fills of something else early on. I am not even sure what it was (Diamine Sherwood Green maybe?). And the 140 is always inked.

[RedPie]

Noodler's Luxury Blue

Pilot iroshizuku kon - peki

Private Reserve Sherwood Green

 

[nanahcub]

Diamine - Aurora Borealis

Diamine - Green Black

J Herbin - Verdigris

[antares1966]

A year ago Aurora Black would be my #1, and it’s still my go-to black, but I’ve been more into colors as of late. 
 

1. Diamine Sapphire Blue 

2. Iroshizuku Syo-Ro

3. Monteverde Copper Noir 

[gregamckinney]

1. Kobe 45

2. Sailor Red-Brown (until I run out of my hoard.  This one isn't made any more.)

3. Omas Vespucci Red (ditto on no longer made, and I have much less of this color left.)

[lamarax]

Like right now? My most used inks in the past 24 hours are:

1. J. Herbin Vert de Gris
2. J. Herbin Lie de Thé
3. Platinum Classic Cassis Black

My yesterday's top three was different tho 😁:

1. Taccia Ukiyo-e Ume murasaki
2. KWZ Honey
3. Graf von Faber Castell Stone Grey

And so on... 🙂

[Surlyprof]

1. Noodler’s North African Violet

2. Sailor Seiboku

3. DeAtramentis Document Black (for writing) and Sepia (for sketching)

[Bo Bo Olson]

51 minutes ago, lamarax said:

And so on... 🙂

9 pens inked with sheen or suspected sheen inks in one pen cup...plus one with Lamy Dark Lilac...in a Lamy Person, sitting alone on the desk, in it don't play well with others, being black titanium oxide.

6 assorted blues in another pen cup.

4 who knows what in a cup.

................in pen holders.

A Geha 725 with Parker Penman Ruby.

A blue Pelikan 605 with Octopus Bronze.

 A marbled blue '91-97 Pelikan 200 with DA Zementgrau,

.....................

There must be twenty inks that I should or could use that have waited  as long as my beard.

R&K Alt-goldgreen, Apache Sunset,Herbin Vert Empire.

DA Golf, an odd ink that shades well but has only been filled once, lacks depth, in it is a tad too pastel.  I will use that ink this year....

The bottle is now out of that ink box and in sight.

[lamarax]

Color-wise, and only that, there's one ink that I keep going for time and time again: De Atramentis Aubergine. But it's flat, and I'm big into shading inks 😐

[Bo Bo Olson]

35 minutes ago, lamarax said:

De Atramentis Aubergine.

I gave that to a neighbor, I set up with the basic 4 widths and flexes....regular flex EF, maxi-semi-flex F, regular flex M, and a semi-flex OB.

He had a Parker nail M.

[Wil D]

Pelikan 4001 Turquoise, Blue Black and Royal Blue

[USG]

- Sailor Konagi

- Sailor Nioi-Sumire

- Waterman Blue

[flashvictor]

1. Aurora Black

2. Waterman Serenity Blue

3. Iroshizuku Asa Gao 

 

Honorable mention to pre2022 formulation of Visconti Blue

[OCArt]

Noodler's Baltimore Canyon

Parker Penman Emerald

Parker Penman Mocha

[avlisyar]

Aurora Black

Visconti Blue

Waterman Mysterious Blue

[gregamckinney]

Kobe 45

Sailor Red Brown

Omas Vespucci Red

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 10/20/2024 at 12:47 AM, Bo Bo Olson said:

9 pens inked with sheen or suspected sheen inks in one pen cup..

grabbed and used  as other pens in my three pen stands ran out of ink....too rushed to look at the asian papers I was given...will have to do that again.