What Ink Do You Use To Write Your Diary?

[Stowford]

Hi, I regularly use Pelikan Blue-Black for my diary, I like to keep the same ink in the book so that every page looks the same. I'm coming to the end of the diary and thinking of changing ink for the next one. I'm looking for a conservative blue / blue-black / black, but could be open to another colour. Any recommendations?

[Notgatherox]

Diamine has some interesting colours - maybe Damson?

 

Parker Quink Blue/Black and Aurora Blue/Black are nice colours to consider if you're looking for conservative shades.

 

 

~Epic

[katerchen]

I actually make it a point to mix it up as much as possible. So by the time I finish a book, it has blues, blacks, teals and purples ... probably 15-20 different inks total.

 

-k

[The Good Captain]

But what is wrong with 4001 Blue-Black?

[EricaTX]

I like Noodler's Texas Bluebonnet or Iroshizuku Shin-Ryoku.

[inkstainedruth]

@ katerchen -- I'm with you. I like a variety, and that gives me a chance to play with different pens and inks on a daily basis.

@ The Good Captain -- You, like the OP have access to 4001 Blue Black. Unfortunately, those of us on this side of the pond don't....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Portia_of_Belmont]

My journal looks like a rainbow with many colors often used in a single entry. I usually pick the color to match the mood of my entry.

[ethernautrix]

I use Noodler's Black in most of my pens, and I really like the look of my notebooks when I use only the one ink. HOWEVER, I do enjoy other colors, and I like using them as highlight colors or whatnot. So I might have a few pages of uniform black-ink print and then a kind of explosion of color (one or more not-black).

 

As for a good blue-black, I like Sailor Blue-Black.

[episkey]

I currently use Pelikan Violet and I'm one of those people who have to only use one color.

 

I'm definitely going to consider switching inks for my next diary though. Something more permanent. I find that Violet has a tendency to fade...

[JimCouch]

Personally I use a WIDE variety of color in my journal, whatever is in the pen I feel like writing with or whatever strikes my fancy.

 

But as far as an ink recommendation for you, my favorite for color and writing feel/experience, after many years of writing and many inks is Sailor Jentle blue black. I also really enjoy writing with Aurora blue and Aurora black, but prefer blue black inks on the page.

[The Good Captain]

@ katerchen -- I'm with you. I like a variety, and that gives me a chance to play with different pens and inks on a daily basis.

@ The Good Captain -- You, like the OP have access to 4001 Blue Black. Unfortunately, those of us on this side of the pond don't....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Yes, I know and I really do feel for you all! But there are plenty of others I suspect. Perhaps Stowford could consider Aurora Black, Blue of a mix for Blue-Black. I find their Blue:Black in ratio 3:1 in that order works very nicely indeed.

[blINK]

I use a different color each day depending on what pen I feel like using.

 

@inkstainedruth - we actually can buy the blue-black over here. It's on Amazon for about $14 with free shipping but it ships from Japan so it takes a little while.

[Frank C]

@ katerchen -- I'm with you. I like a variety, and that gives me a chance to play with different pens and inks on a daily basis.

@ The Good Captain -- You, like the OP have access to 4001 Blue Black. Unfortunately, those of us on this side of the pond don't....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

You can order Pelikan Blue-Black from Cult pens. They have a £10 shipping charge to the USA, but you can more than make up for that by ordering some Diamine ink along with it. You can also get some Cult Pens Exclusive Deep Dark inks if you like dark colored ink. Once you sign in and identify yourself as not living in the EU, you get the prices without VAT. Their customer service is fantastic!

 

Just don't tell the FDA, DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA, or Homeland Security what you're up to. Pelikan Blue-Black is dangerous!

[The Good Captain]

 

You can order Pelikan Blue-Black from Cult pens. They have a £10 shipping charge to the USA, but you can more than make up for that by ordering some Diamine ink along with it. You can also get some Cult Pens Exclusive Deep Dark inks if you like dark colored ink. Once you sign in and identify yourself as not living in the EU, you get the prices without VAT. Their customer service is fantastic!

 

Just don't tell the FDA, DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA, or Homeland Security what you're up to. Pelikan Blue-Black is dangerous!

I wouldn't call it dangerous. Just must have something in it that Europe thinks is fine and the US doesn't. Agent Orange, without the dye, perhaps?

[Blue_Moon]

If I kept a diary, probably Diamine Asa Blue or Oxblood, Iroshizuku Yama Budo or Asa Gao, or maybe them all.

[alexander_k]

Somehow I feel I have to write something so personal and intimate in a dark purple ink, like Diamine Grape or perhaps Eclipse: old-fashioned, tired after a full day, even sombre. Blue is to business-like, a morning ink colour.

[ac12]

I am like others, I use MANY different inks.

Some times the ink change signifies a subject change, other times it is simply the pen that I use for the next entry.

I have different inks, so this is my way of using more of my inks.

It also gets me to see how the inks looks and behaves.

[Freddy]

Ink color..determined by which pen I grab..last evening used

a Bexley Poseidon Magnum ll-sportin' a 750/1000 Au CI 0.07 mm nib..filled with 1940's Quink permanent

blue-black ink.

 

Fred

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[Morwen]

I am also if the "rainbow persuasion". My diary is the place to use insane colors.

[Elana]

I'm weird about my diary. I think it's because I'm an archaeologist, but it freaks me out to think of my writing in water-based inks fading over the decades. So, while I use crazy colours all the time in all my other writing, I very strictly use only Sailor Kiwa-Guro (carbon nanoparticles) when writing in my diary. I have a pair of medium Preras dedicated to this purpose; when one needs to be cleaned out, the other swaps in.

 

If carbon black was good enough for the painters of Lascaux, it's good enough for me...! Future archaeologists, feel free to use my diaries as samples of 20th–21st century culture!!