Passionate about Purple

[southpaw]

Here's a photo of the purple inks that I have at the moment. Many thanks to Ann Finley for helping me out with the color correction. Without further ado . . .

[p-zero]

Thanks for sharing these purples. The various purples are some of my favorite ink colors.

[southpaw]

Glad to do it, but do realize that purple is one of the hardest colors to get to show up correctly in a scan or photo. Ann did wonders with what I sent her.

[skipwilliams]

Nice...A few that I have that you're missing: Noodlers Concord Bream, Conway Stewart Violet, Private Reserve Purple Haze, Noodlers Socrates.

 

Concord Bream is especially different, a very muted, true purple/lavender.

CS Violet is much like Omas Purple, but a little lighter and redder, IIRR.

Purple Haze is a pastel purple ink, most usable with edged nibs.

Socrates is a bright reddish or magenta-ish purple. Much like Suguaro Wine. Bulletproof color.

 

Skip

[Garfieldthecat]

Nice, I just posted a picture of some of my blue and purple inks, in the inky thoughts area. I treid attaching a link to my post, but can't get it to work.

 

I have several of the same inks that you have.

[DilettanteG]

Thanks Southpaw, I've really needed something like this for a while. I love purple, but two of the inks I have on your list haven't behaved well for me: Noodler's Coleur Royale and Waterman's purple. They both feather like mad. Based on your review, I'll have to give them another shot before I sell them down the line.

[CharlieB]

Sorry to hear that the Noodlers Coleur Royale feathers like mad. I was about to comment that that was the best looking color on Southpaw's chart. Does it feather on all types of paper?

[southpaw]

Thanks Southpaw, I've really needed something like this for a while. I love purple, but two of the inks I have on your list haven't behaved well for me: Noodler's Coleur Royale and Waterman's purple. They both feather like mad. Based on your review, I'll have to give them another shot before I sell them down the line.

 

 

Hmmm. . . I've never had any trouble of any kind with any Waterman ink (other than the color loss on the blue-black), and the Purple is probably my most often used ink. I've only used the NCR just a little, but I don't recall it feathering either. Maybe it was a particularly bad type of paper? Very wet nib? Just guessing here. Anyhow, the Waterman for sure is, imho, a trouble-free ink.

[DilettanteG]

Since Waterman's Florida Blue is now the "safety" ink I put into any new pen for a trial run, I'll have to give the Waterman's Purple another shot. Ditto the Noodler's Royale, I can't even remember which pen or paper I used either on, so perhaps I didn't give it a fair shake. ( CharlieB: I can send you a sample if you'd like to try it for yourself. Just PM me.)

Edited September 3, 2007 by DilettanteG

[Judybug]

That's a bunch of nice purples, Southpaw. Just this week I got the bottle of Sheaffer Purple that I ordered. I like it. It's somewhere between the Omas Violet and Pelikan Violet in your samples.

 

Judybug

[Tricia]

Thanks for this! I adore purple inks and always love to see new ones.

[PelikanPenman]

Thanks for all the effort Southpaw, it is nice to see these, althought purple is not one of the colours I really reach for, for my pens.... :ltcapd:

[Maja]

Hi Southpaw,

Thanks for posting (and creating) the ink samples! I recently bought my first OMAS ink, the Violet in your scan, and am pleasantly surprised to see that it looks like a cross between PR Tanzanite and Waterman Purple. To be 100% honest with you, I bought the ink mostly for the bottle because I hadn't seen OMAS inks in any local shops before and hadn't seen any reviews of the Violet on FPN (I saw your scan after I made my purchase)..... I haven't tried it out yet, but I will ink up my Hero 200A fountain pen that it winging its way to me from Arizona....

Thanks again,

~Maja

Edited September 15, 2007 by Maja