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So, uh.... I like purple... I like blue inks that tend towards purple and I adore vibrant purple inks.

 

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Although I have signed my court documents in Cape Cod Cranberry, I have never submitted a document in purple and I don't use it as a signature color. The pink feels like a protest color. So, I'm wondering why I don't sign in purple even if I use purple everyday...

 

So, do you use purple? When? Why do you (or don't you) purple? Do you prefer retinal searing purples or dusky purples.

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Right now I own 4 purples, all from R&K, and they're my favorite part of the spectrum too (along with murky green/browns...but that's a discussion for another TOD maybe ?!). Two of them are really vibrant (Magenta and Cassia) and the other are really warm (Scabiosa and Alt-Bordeaux)...I use the warm ones all the time (Scabiosa is great for signatures), and the eye searing ones only when journaling :D

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Ha.

I just mentioned that purples are not really my thing. I own two (ish)
Poussiere de Lune and Scabiosa - although the latter isn't a purple really.

 

Scabiosa looks nicer to me so gets to play more.

 

I find I purple difficult to read in notes and I find them hard to sketch with as they give off strange feelings.

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I love purple! If I didn't like blue so much, I would have way more purple to the point of over-saturation! I journal and write pen pals, but I'd love to learn to sketch.

 

Yama-budo, Mauritshuis Magenta, Simplisties Violet, MB Lavender Purple, Sailor Grenade, Sailor Shigure are my favorites at the moment.

 

I discovered a blue-purple in Nassau Blauw that satisfies my two personalities.

 

There are some violets in KWZI that are very attractive ...

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I like my reds to lean blue. Rouge Opera, Grenade. I realized I don't have a purple, so when the Kwzi offer came up, I got a purple. I'll do a review (not promising anything!)

 

Now I need a green....

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I LOVE MB Lavender Purple - amazing shading and quite well behaved. Before that, my favourite was Dupont Violet/Purple which is darker and slightly more blue compared to Lavender Purple. Of course there is Scabiosa too which I have inked up in one of my pens permanently - however that colour is rather special as it is not easy to categorise....

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:) Purple is my favorite.

 

However, I don't write with purple unless it's a purple/black (have you seen the new Uni-Ball BLX red/black and purple/black offerings?! :o ).

 

I will accent/markup my papers with purple, but I won't submit whole document in purple, if that makes any sense. :)

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I like purple and use it a lot! Mostly darker or dustier purples, I think. Right now, I have quite a few pens with purple inks: Noodler's La Reine Mauve, De Atramentis Violets, Sailor Kobe Tamon Purple Grey, Diamine Amazing Amethyst, Noodler's Nightshade, Iroshizuku Yama-Budo, Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses (new version). Wow! I don't mind writing exclusively in purple when I am making lists or whatever, but when I am taking notes in class it's mostly used as a secondary colour (e.g. I'll write the theorem in La Reine Mauve but write the proof in black).

 

I kind of want to try a really eye-searing purple sometime. Nothing too blue-leaning.

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Sure, I use purple - for just about anything.

 

You're going to LOVE these KWZI inks I'm testing then . . . :)

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Mmmmmm.......Purrrrrrpleeeeeee... What were we talking about? Oh yeah, purple. I LOVE purple. I use it for everything and I use every shade. All the way from JHerbin Viollete Pensée's searing blue-violet to Sailor Bung Box's deep, dusky purple-black. I am also a great lover of fuchsias and magenta and anything else remotely close to purple.

 

(Side note: I love MB Lavender Purple and it has an interesting gold sheen, but it behaves weirdly. When freshly dried it's a shining metal gold and quite strong in character, but after only a few seconds to a minute it's almost completely gone. Anyone else notice this kind of disappearing sheen?)

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I tend to love anything in the red-purple-magenta end of things, so I've ended up with quite a few purples (and a lot of not-sure-what-that-is-but-I-love-its). My absolute favourite 'proper' purple is PR Purple Mojo, because it just sort of leaps off the page and is generally delightful to write with. I also quite like Diamine Grape and Herbin Poussiere de Lune, but I have to be in the mood for the more sedate purples, so they don't get to come out and play as much as Purple Mojo. Diamine Eclipse is mated for life with my Sailor brush pen, and I love it for drawing and Chinese calligraphy, but I'm always slightly underwhelmed by it in a regular calligraphy pen. I tried PR Ebony Purple back when I first started buying fancy inks, and it's the only purple to date I dislike - the colour's great, but it will. not. flow. in a calligraphy nib. At all. There's hard starters, then there's Ebony Purple in a medium calligraphy nib. Ebony Blue was only marginally better, so I think it's something to do with that little family of inks.

 

On a less frustrating note, I've also got Yama-Budo on order because Amazon was selling the Iroshizukus for £15, so i suspect that's going to be a new favourite purple :D

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I use Kung Te Cheng routinely -an indigo blue that sometimes looks purple. I also like La Reine Mauve because it is so dark it can function in a business environment without issues. I like Scabiosa, but I usually mix it with Alchemist's Purpura Imperialis (which is so dark it looks black when dried) to make it more purple.

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What is not to love about purple?

 

I think it is probable -the color- that got me to increase my fountain pen collection.

 

I believe that, in France, Herbin Poussiere de Lune and Violette Pensee have been correspondence staple for a long time.

 

I have them and use them in this manner, and as headers for notes.

 

Larmes de Cassis is on my list, I wish I could find a matching pen.

That is the trouble with purple inks, there are not enough purple pens to match them up with.

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J Herbin PDL and MB lavender Purple are what I have ended up using when I use purples, On a few occasions I have drawn from my inkwell filled with Private Reserve Plum, but mostly to use it up and free the inkwell for another ink.

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I have a few: Poussiere De Lune, Cassia, Imperial Purple, Yama-budo, BSiAR.

 

I use them for tests and assignments quite a bit. They're bright enough without being overly vibrant, while still being dark enough that they're easy to read for the examiner. I love how purple looks as well.

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I really like purple inks.

 

I've got a few of them: R&K Cassia, J.Herbin PdL, Noodler's Purple, PR Tanzanite, and OS Jane Austen.

 

I use them a lot for personal writing and note taking at school. I also use them in the pharmacy if that's what I've got inked up. I tend not to care what color I take prescriptions in as long as the inks scans into the computer well and behaves well on our script pads.

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