Perfered School or Work Ink Color.

[WillAdams]

I use brown (J. Herbin Café des Îles, though I wish I still had some old formula Sheaffer Skrip brown) or sepia (Manuscript Sepia) --- picked brown 'cause at a previous workplace we were colour-coding our folder entries and it was a reasonable choice.

 

William

[celuloide]

I prefer black, but I use also blue-black and red.

 

Black-Aurora

Blue black - Waterman or MB

Red - Parker Quink

[Arkanabar]

As yet, I only have blue and black, but I hope to expand the collection soon. Lucky me, I work at a factory, and as long as it's legible, nobody cares what color the writing is. Others use pale metallic gels, so I can't see any problem.

 

But since there are giant dye vats (textiles) perhaps I should seek out some Noodler's bulletproof inks.

 

I want green, and brown, and violet, and maroon/ burgundy/ dark red.... No thanks on orange, yellow, or pink. I like more contrast.

 

It probably dates back to the periods we're at school

 

Most teachers wont like homework done in purple or turquoise, LOL

so Black and Blue go as default. -- Kissing @ May 19 2006, 8:34am

Well, I had one HS teacher who expected us to take notes in a variety of hues, as he used on the chalkboard. And another, who annoyed me. I read his questions, read the book, condensed it all into a single sentence, and got poor grades on my homework. So instead I changed multicolored felt tips EVERY LINE, as I copied nearly a paragraph almost verbatim to answer his homework questions. And got good grades for it.

[fjf]

Still looking for a nice permanent blue....

[mfwebb]

Pelikan Violet is my current favourite, followed closely by Pelikan Brilliant Brown.

 

I am fed up of various blues after 40 years of constant use, and black has always been a no-no for me. This stems from my early days in the late 60's early 70's as a surveyor when we were not allowed to use black ink as originals could not be distinguished from photo copies. It seems to have stuck with me and I only ever use black when forced to -- I occasionally have to fill in official forms that get returned if any other colour but black is used.

[Cloud]

Now I'm using montblanc british racing green!

 

Depends on my mood. At work, I have a black, florida blue, south sea blue, british racing green and poussière de lune cartridges.

 

Since my green is the latest and greatest for now i'm sticking to green. As we say it's the flavor of the month.

 

Cheers

[Tom L]

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

Wish I could find the reply to quote, but the answer is that you don't need to shake it every time, but occassionally might help.

 

I had written to Chuck Swisher in January because the bottle he had sent me was writing as a light gray rather than black. Initially we believed that it was some kind of mold problem, but the ultimate answer was something like that the dye had settled. (Think two liquids, like oil & water, albeit not that extreme- not particles.)

 

This was in a bottle that was well better than a year old and sat fairly motionless.

 

-Tom

[grarap]

I use Parker quink blue and black for general school use, and Diamine Umber and Monaco Red at home. I've tried getting into purples, but there arent any local suppliers, and I just love blood red

[johnr55]

Though I prefer one of the blues for purely personal writing, black is proper for medical work, either FP or BP. I've gotten so used to it over the past 30 years that I don't mind it anymore. For the years, though, that I was growing up and until I got broken of the habit, it was blue Skrip.

[MikeLip]

I love PR American Blue - I wish it were waterproof! It would be my most used ink. As it is, Noodlers Glacier Blue or Noodlers black is what I use at work for my journals.

[Ogrebait]

Black is typically the only ink color accepted throughout the healthcare field.

 

Rick

[WillAdams]

Ogrebait said:

>Black is typically the only ink color accepted throughout the healthcare field.

 

Hmm, interesting given that it wasn't that long ago that charts were colour-coded by shift (hence the specialized nurse's and doctor's pen sets)

 

William

[playpen]

I have several dozen bottles of ink and am constantly switching colors. My students watch for the next colors with great glee. Since this FP stuff is new to them, it's, "Cool!"

[elvis]

Noodler's Eternal Hunter Green

[Green Maned Lion]

I voted black because thats what I use, because thats what I have. I intend to add Blue-Black and Eternal Hunter Green to my list of used inks.

[Scribbles]

For note taking I use whatever color suites my mood.

 

For official writing I'd use something darker, either a black, dark blue, purple or dark brown.

 

I wouldn't use a lighter colored ink in business because I'd be worried about how it might photocopy.

 

I do use red, just sparingly. To me it is for keeping books and marking up writing mistakes.

[Glaedr]

I use DC Supershow Blue and South Sea Blue at school. It depends on the lesson and mood I'm in to which colour I use

[jack frost]

For my own stuff at work I use Noodler's Shah's Rose. Once I finally got fed up with my coworkers stealing my disposeable highlighters off my desk I loaded up some Noodler's Atlantic Salmon into my calligraphy nib Naki and I take that with me in my bag.

[dwmatteson]

I've always loved black ink. In my last job, I was working with a lot of financial papers (approvals and such) and contracts. I got into the habit of using blue ink only for those, so I could distinguish originals from copies. Now that I'm out of that line of work and I don't typically need to sign important papers (or when I do, being able to tell the difference isn't quite as essential), I'm back to black! :)9

 

Don M.

[maryannemoll]

i like to use the penman in emerald. it's my current favorite ink. i like it because it's deep and distinctive.