Perfered School or Work Ink Color.

[theshainun]

I use boring Mont Blanc Royal Blue-because of the cleaning agent, it stops it from clogging too easily...

 

Shaun

[Myrtle Peacock]

I use black ink or sharp pencils at work and at home. But I'm trying to branch out into more interesting colours these days.

[Betty]

I've never really understood the color blue-black..it's just a whole mess of not black, not blue...I'm amazed that this color is quite popular on their board

 

Meanwhile, my favorite blue is losing....

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

I would use a dark violet.

 

Dillon

Edited December 27, 2005 by Dillo

[Goodwhiskers]

Betty, I like blue-black because it's clearly legible and it unmistakeably says, "these marks or words are handwritten."

 

The color is not "delightful" the way many blues are, and it is neither high-contrast black nor mellow gray. Therefore, publishers, advertisers and sign makers go out of their way to avoid using it for any text or lettering!

 

It usually doesn't come out truly black in black-and-while photocopies, enabling distinction between originals and photocopies of documents.

 

Blue-black is just really practical and distinctive (not personally distinctive, but distinctive in its use) for me.

[Big D]

For most note taking and corespondence, i use Noodlers Eternal Black for my Pelikan M215.

I recently went out and purchased three Lamy Safari's and converters so i could expand my ink possibilities while at work. So, i filled 'em up with Noodler's Devil's Red, Noodlers Glacier Blue, and Noodlers Verdun Green. (Recent 4 color roller ball pen convert )

-Dan

[Carène]

Well, I chose "other" but in writing this, I realized I should have said "can't decide..." Lately I've been using Omas gray most of the time, because I love the way it looks on paper, but also love the way it looks sloshing around in my Omas Vision. Then again, I also like all the sepias and browns. I recently got a Stipula Etruria in the brown/amber color, and have Private Reserve Copper Burst in it now. But then there are times when I need a bright Noodler's Navajo Turquoise for some reason. Oh, and I have J. Herbin bleu myosotis in my Lamy Safari. Is it normal to match ink to pen? In reading my post, I'm flashing back to when my mom would harangue me about my purse matching my shoes...

 

Karen

[grasshopper]

To answer this thread specifically, it's zhivago. Otherwise, well... mo colour, mo better...

[Garageboy]

Waterman Florida blue carts in a Pelikano.

[J. John Harvey]

I find that I can read notes taken with Waterman Florida Blue very well. Black ink annoys me for some reason, while note-taking.

Edited January 17, 2006 by J. John Harvey

[handlebar]

I have been using Avacado Private Reserve and Noodler's Cayenne.

 

Handlebar

[Ink Stained Wretch]

On Noodlers black, is it true that you have to shake it every time you go to use it?

Well, I shake the bottle before putting some ink in a cartridge. One time when I was new to Noodler's Black I just took ink off the top of the bottle and used it in a fountain pen. What I got was a gray line instead of a black line. Now Noodler's is very black and this was a shock to see it writing gray. Someone else on the USENET board had also had this experience. I put the grayish ink back in the bottle and shook it up. After that it was black. So now I make sure that I shake all of the Noodler's waterproof inks before I load them into a cartridge.

 

Perhaps I should note that this was a bottle I'd bought in May 2004, and maybe more recent bottles don't do this.

 

So far I haven't had any problems from doing this.

[Greg]

Its nice to have the opportunity to use a selection of colours, each in a pen with a similar coloured body.

 

Main writing is done with the Churchill filled with a green/black mix, currently Lamy green and Sheaffer's black, and I keep a maroon Skyline filled with Platignum red - a brilliant red although I think it might be a bit acidy - for comments etc on typed pages.

 

I also use Penman Sapphire, Mocha and Emerald (ok, blue, brown and green) Aurora black for notes on drawings and diamine turquoise.

 

I'm looking for a good orange and violet, although I'll need an orange pen for that. (would love an old HR Duofold)

 

 

Greg

[DrPJM1]

For work I got the blues: Noodler's Blue, American Eel Blue, Private Reserve American Blue, Lake Placid Blue, Waterman Florida Blue....

[petra]

Since I teach in an art school where the students have green and purple hair, not to mention multi-colored tattoos, I could use invisible ink and nobody would think twice about it . Come to think of it, I have multi-colored hair, although mine falls into the brunette and formerly-brunette-white category.

 

When I use different inks in different meetings, other faculty think I'm just being extremely efficient and color-coding my notes Elaborate doodling in margins is expected, along with dye, ink, paint or some other pigment all over one's hands.

 

Petra

/:)

[krz]

When I use different inks in different meetings, other faculty think I'm just being extremely efficient and color-coding my notes /:)

Ha!

Yah... I'm a .... color coding... That's the ticket!

[HesNot]

I currently use mostly PR Midnight Blues at the office, along with Florida Blue and Waterman green. It does depend on the use but for note taking I mostly use the blue-black. If I'm marking up documents I'll use Florida Blue or the Waterman green, depending on the pen I'm carrying that day. Green has traditionally been my signature color but I've sort of strayed from that in recent years and leaned toward more blue based colors.

 

I am in the market for a permanent ink and after much consideration regarding feathering, etc... I think I'm going to go with Noodler's black. I don't have any black ink currently and I suppose I should always have at least one black ink available, so it may as well be a "bullet/waterproof/fraud/eternal/contract/legal" ink! :blink:

[NyAznBoy64]

For me it has to be Blue Black, it gives you a sense of individuality seeing how most people in school write with either blue or black

[Tara]

I started out using black in my FPs.

 

Then I switched to PR Naples Blue and every time I sign a check or a credit card slip, people go nuts over my pen.

 

They never noticed when I signed in black.

 

Now if I can only find a Noodler's Waterproof that color. . .

 

I also use Noodler's Tiananmen for corrections. I will probably be swtiching over to Hellbender or Devil Red for the waterproofness.

 

My husband, using my stolen Namiki VP, is very, very happy with Noodler's Permanent Hunter Green. He uses it for everything. His employees and accountant are becoming accustomed to looking for that color as no-one else has it.

[TheNobleSavage]

For work, I use either Blue, Black or a blue Black.

 

PR American Blue

PR DC SuperShow Blue

Noodlers Blue

 

Noodlers Black

Pilot Black

Aurora Black

Parker Black

 

Noodlers Blue Black

Noodlers Aircorp Blue Black

Parker Quink Blue Black