Black Pens Why Are They So Common?

[Icywolfe]

I just looked at my pen cup today and found all these 8 black pens I know I have 2 more black pens so that is about 1/3 of my pens (including preppies in total) are black.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5d32/3sg9el6yd49o3hs6g.jpg

 

I just had some Poyos on my desk so I added them too. That Leo retired from combat just for a few minutes to pose with the FP.

 

But why are black pens so common? All silver pens looks cool too yet it's harder to find those than a all black one.

[swain]

Black pens never look goofy. Even (bleep) pens look serious in black.

[pajaro]

Black is a generally acceptable color. It's traditional for pens. Some people object to greens, blues or other colors, but black is the old standby.

 

I personally prefer red. I generally avoid black pens. I think they look goofy, even overly severe.

[prighello]

They go with everything.

[Icywolfe]

They go with everything.

I can't see them go with a White shirt. The TWSBI Rose Gold goes better with a white shirt.

[tinysnail]

It's a neutral colour, so kind of universally appealing. I'd guess that it's a nice colour for the manufacturers to worth with, as well. I recall hearing that the TWSBI Mini in white and rose gold may have been discontinued because of the difficulty in keeping white plastic perfectly white; a whole batch of plastic can be ruined by a tiny impurity or cross-contamination. With coloured plastic, especially black, that's not as much of an issue. Anyone know more about this?

[Freddy]

Good for Leo..a few minutes only..hmm...Back to the ?.....

Hell if I know.............................................................................

 

Fred

this boy's makin' more noise than a couple of skeletons throwin'

a fit on a tin roof...................................................................................

~ Foghorn Leghorn

[jar]

Like the LBD, it is always always in fashion.

 

And there are lots of Sterling silver pens out there.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Two years ago I said no more black pens....sadly I chase vintage German pens...and they must have a law. More than half of the pens II bought since the 'vow' have been black and gold....chasing models of this or that pen.

 

Could be the Germans feared looking frivolous, and getting fired or not promoted. Even Pelikan was sort of staid when in colors other than tortoise.

Edited November 26, 2014 by Bo Bo Olson

[OcalaFlGuy]

Black was a traditional color for fountain pens.

 

For a few decades you could get any color fountain pen you wanted as long as that was black.

 

The first reddish-orange pens were a pretty big and New deal.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl-who thankfully grew out of the black pen deal pretty quickly

[Oldtimer]

it is a color easy to make.

[Algester]

My lad for an all silver pen... If you can afford all the stirling silver made for it then you can still go vintage they are almost everwhere, next black is what I can say the comfort zone color or I would call it the playing-safe color, my playing safe color is none other than black and white from the design perspective that ...

[J85909266]

I love black everything. Keep it up, as far as I'm concerned.

[bitterwonder]

Classy.

[holgalee]

I thought I'll dislike black fountain pens, but I really like mine. They have an understated elegance: when polished, I can admire the mirror like surface that reflects light; when the surface has tiny microscratches, they can hardly be seen at all.

 

I like white fountain pens too, for the same reasons. LOL.

[huy3825]

"Black is associated with power, elegance, formality..." - Colour wheel pro

This is why we always see our politicians wearing black and why fountain pens are predominantly black. Colours such as grey represent indecision. The primary colours are goofy and etc. I was watching a body language documentary and they were mentioning the colour and stripes on a suit and what they meant. So it would stand to reason that the meaning of colours also extended to pens.

 

But... I don't yet appreciated black pens. I'm a kid atm and gosh I love colourful pens.

Edited November 26, 2014 by huy3825

[Runnin_Ute]

Black is traditional, conservative. Add some gold furniture and you have a bit of Bling to go with it. Of 15 fountain pens, six are black (4 with gold). I also have a rollerball (Waterman Hemisphere) that is black and gold.

 

I also have four in either silver or gun metal coloration. Five are other colors.

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Because it's hard to stain black

[Icywolfe]

Good for Leo..a few minutes only..hmm...Back to the ?.....

Hell if I know.............................................................................

This is the Leo:

 

http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/OZ-06MS_Leo

 

 

 

My lad for an all silver pen... If you can afford all the stirling silver made for it then you can still go vintage they are almost everwhere, next black is what I can say the comfort zone color or I would call it the playing-safe color, my playing safe color is none other than black and white from the design perspective that ...

I'm sort of clueless for Silver or metallic pens. I know Pilot has their from the Namiki line. But not sure what else.

[ac12]

It is easier to gift a BLACK pen than to decide which color pen to give the person.

This is worse when the selection of colors is greater, like the Lamy Safari.

 

Well as for sliver color, there are the FLIGHTERS.

Flighter is a brushed stainless steel finish.

I like them for durability of the finish. My 30 year old college pens looks just as good today as they did in college. Whereas my 2 year old gloss finish pen is scratched and chipped, and looks old because of that. My wife keep moaning about the chip in the finish of her Waterman. So my personal preference is for flighters.

Edited November 27, 2014 by ac12