Not sure if this should be in reviews, or inky thoughts...
A scan of Rotring turquoise in short international cartridges. I've never seen this in a bottle. I ordered Pelikan turq. carts from Fountain Pen Hospital when I was looking for something to fit my WatermanC/F pens, and FPH sent me the Rotring instead. They don't fit my C/F pens, but I love the color! A greenish turquoise, or medium aqua. Behaves well. Written with Elysee M nib on photocopy paper.

Great color for a cartridge!

Petra

Yes, this is a gorgeous turquoise! It looks very much like the old Sheaffer Peacock Blue - one of my favorites.

While looking at fountain pen ink at a local store, I found one bottle of Rotring ink in Brick Red. I asked the manager if he had any other bottles of Rotring ink. He told me that Rotring no longer markets ink in bottles. Anyway, I got the Brink Red for $2.50. I haven't tried it yet. I hope it behaves as well as your Rotring cartridges.

Judybug

Great comparison and colors (i like your handwriting too!) Did the cartridges have "Rotring" on them? I ask because I purchased a new Rotring Core a while back and it came with a black cartridge, but there was no brand name on it. I'd heard that Rotring black is good deep black and I wondered if that's what I got or whether it was a generic.
There's an art store nearby with some dusty Rotring carts. I'll have to stop by and take a closer look. The turquoise is beautiful.

The little cardboard box that the carts came in says Rotring, but the carts themselves are unmarked. The more I look at the color, the more I like it! Too bad it ONLY comes in carts...

Petra

Thanks, Petra, then I probably did get a Rotring cartridge. There was a rumor floating around a while back that Rotring inks were being discontinued (Rotring is owned by the same company that owns Parker and Waterman I believe). Hope not!

On my monitor, the color looks a lot like Private Reserve Naples Blue. I commonly use a mixture of 2 parts Naples Blue and 1 part Noodler's Boston Brahmin Blue, which also looks much like this turquoise.

Don

Well, too bad if any of you like this color as much as I do -- yet another color &/or ink that has apparently been discontinued... i did a web search last night & they seem to have disappeared from the universe.

Petra

Have you tried this colour against Diamine Steel Blue or Caran d'Ache Carribean Sea?

I've been interested for a long time in finding a greenish turquoise. The balance in this ink looks great on screen, but I find that blue-greens often look less green (and more blue) on screen than they do on paper. I have the Steel Blue and am wondering whether it is close to the discontinued Rotring, or whether the Rotring is really less green than that. I'm also interested in the relationship to Carribean Sea - I haven't got that (yet) but believe it is a greener turquoise than many.

Well, I was lucky enough to find a source here in the UK for some Rotring Turquoise cartridges, so I can partially answer my own question.

Unlike many scans of blue-green shades, Petra's scans of Rotring Turquoise are actually pretty accurate (he says, holding up some scribbles against the monitor...) - though, for some reason, her Waterman SSB looks very much darker and bluer than mine.

Rotring Turquoise definitely looks like a "proper" turquoise rather than a "turquoise green". So, it's nowhere near as green as Diamine Steel Blue or PR Blue Suede, which I both think of as greens with blue/turquoise undertones. But, when seen alongside e.g. Lamy Turquoise, its greener hues are definitely evident. Very subtle: certainly not a green, but also not as blue as many turquoise inks. It must be so close to the borderline between colour categories that it actually plays with you on the page - one minute it looks more greenish, the next closer to a standard turquoise.

I'd still be interested in where Caribbean Sea falls in the green - blue spectrum.