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Hi ink fans,

 

I'm looking for a purple ink with a great sheen. What's are your favorites and why?

 

I'd love to see photos too!

 

Many thanks in advance.

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Yes, I like dark. I saw a photo of Shigure in a thread on sheen that looks like gold glitter!

 

What about PR Tanzanite? Should I consider that too?

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As it happens I have that too! It's a nice looking violet/purple not as dark as Shigure, it has a silvery sheen but not so heavy as Shigure.

 

Yes, I like dark. I saw a photo of Shigure in a thread on sheen that looks like gold glitter!

 

What about PR Tanzanite? Should I consider that too?

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Diamine Bilberry is a dark purple with a very nice golden sheen. I just discovered this using it in two Montblanc pens trying out a new Maruman Boston notebook. Great notebook, BTW. Four pens, three inks, no feathering, no bleed-through, no show-through.

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Whoa, I have Shigure in a pen right NOW and didn't even know about the sheen. It's a beautiful colour on its own: just a nice super dark purple that looks almost black in some nibs and paper. Here it is in a super wet Pelikan M200, Binder XXF, on Rhodia. I'll have to swap the nib out for a stub to get that sheen :) Glad I found this thread!

 

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I just ordered a bottle of Shigure. I was glad to see from tinysnail's reply that Shigure can do math.

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Someone suggested that I try "Cult Pens" (aka Diamine) "Deep Dark Purple." It does have a nice sheen to it, but the color is very, very dark. Another option for your collection...

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Tinysnail, you can save precious μl of Shigure by using the mathematical symbol ∋ in place of "such that."

 

No, no, don't thank me--just one geek helping another.

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Tinysnail, you can save precious μl of Shigure by using the mathematical symbol ∋ in place of "such that."

 

No, no, don't thank me--just one geek helping another.

I've seen that be used! I am not a fan; in quick writing, it looks like "there exists" and I would rather avoid ambiguity. If I want to use shorthand, I'll just do "s.t." Thanks for the pointer, though!

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Now, now. ∋ is a venerable, but perfectly acceptable symbol. I learned it at age 16 in a mathematical logic class, and used it, along with ∀, ∃, and ∄ for note-taking throughout my education. Ambiguity is for particle physicists.

 

Cheers!

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My personal favourite is ∃!.

 

ETA: This is so off-topic, all of this, but I do also try to avoid using shorthand symbols when possible. They're for taking notes in class, maybe, but whenever you are writing something you intend someone else to read, it's best to use actual words. This applies especially to articles and papers, but also to assignments. I'm a mathematics graduate student and I try to avoid it especially when TAing. When introducing those not comfortable to mathematics to new concepts, the worst thing you can do is flood them with symbols.

 

Anyways! On topic: I picked up some onionskin paper today, out of curiousity, and I get some silvery sheen out of Shigure on it. It's more evident in real life. Purple ink in the middle, there.

 

http://33.media.tumblr.com/a8c5b5b3d40300311ea3c8e3f078ade5/tumblr_ne12z3BVgb1qgziczo1_1280.jpg

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Yum! Can you please name all the inks in the picture? They are all gorgeous!

For sure! I can go up and take another picture later, one that actually shows them all, but L to R:

 

Sailor Kobe Shinkaichi Gold (That's 23 IIRC?)

Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo

Pilot Iroshizuku Momiji

Sailor Jentle Shigure

Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Budo

Tsuki-yo again

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Thank you! Tsuki-yo looks great, but I must admit that mom ink looks like kosu-mosu to me in that picture!

 

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It must have been the light that was on in my room! It's possible that it made Momiji look a lot pinker than usual. You can see some gold sheen in it above. I was hoping that Shinkaichi would sheen, because that would be incredible, but it seems to be lacking there :(

 

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