I am trying to choose an ink to use for correcting and for editing. First I thought of using a vibrant red such as Sheaffer's, but I would like to know your experiences.

Thanks
JO

Herbin's Orange Indien. A lovely clear orange [literally in the bottle] that's dark enough on the page for easy reading, but not saturated to where it interferes with ink jet printing. Also easier on the eyes.

I use Private Reserve's Blood Orange (mix of their Shoreline Gold and Fiesta Red). I figured that any student that could copy it deserved the extra points!

Parker Quink Green. I have found that students panic when papers are marked with red, pink or orange. They don't panic when green is used, no matter how much is used.

It depends on whether you mean for personal use or for grading. Personally, I use whatever is in the pen that I grab that will contrast enough with my typed notes/outlines. For students (although I don't teach), I'd suggest something vibrant. I'm not one of those who thinks you need to avoid a particular color, but I would use a variety just for my own interest such as Diamine Orange, Diamine Woodland Green, Waterman Red, Diamine Monaco Red, R&K Solferino, Noodlers/Swishers Devil Red, etc.

I knew I shouldn't have asked: now I have a lot more inks to buy!


Ingenuity should be rewarded!


That's interesting. Maybe I'll give green a try.



Now this is an interesting idea. It it gives me a great excuse to buy all sorts of beautiful inks.
My budget won't like it, though.

I used to use red ink, but no longer. Students have told me that it is too "in your face." I now use greens, golds (and oranges), browns, and sometimes turquoise or burgundy. In particular, lately I have been using:

PR Tropical Blue
Sheaffer King's Gold
Sailor Yellow-Orange
Herbin Amber
Diamine Emerald Green
Diamine Sepia
Pelikan Brilliant Brown
Sailor Red-brown
R&K Alt-Bordeaux

For pens, I often use a Sailor Saporro with an extra fine nib for grading essays and papers where I need to write in the margins.
I use Pelikan M200's (an amber and an anthracite, with fine and extra fine nibs) for much of my other grading.

Matt C.

I got tired of red inks misbehaving in my pens so I now use Diamine Aqua for editing. I did several comparisons with other Aqua shades.

here 't is
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...175&hl=aqua

I used to teach and found out quickly that students tended not to read comments and corrections written in red ink. So I switched to a more "muted" color, either burgundy or purple. For a while I had students requesting corrections in whichever of the colors they preferred. My classes evenly divided between burgundy and purple fans.

On my own writing (fiction now, rather than academic stuff). I tend to correct in tropical blue or burgundy since I use dark blue or black for handwritten manuscripts and of course computer printouts are all in black.

Actually I use Sheaffer Skrip red...

Herbin Bleu Pervenche or Herbin Violette Pensée. I was an (unofficial) TA and the teacher did not like pink or red ink, also my mum is a teacher, I have graded papers for her and she does not like red ink. Before I got into fountain pens it was a LePen felt(fibre) tip in lime green, violet, or turquoise or a violet Triplus fineliner. Now it is either of the inks I listed earlier.

I am a teaching assistant and thus grade most of the students work. When I first started, I tried using green or purple type colors...but then felt that students were not taking suggested corrections seriously. I switched to Private Reserve Dakota Red and have found that there is indeed a remarkable difference with the same students in the same semester.

I grade exams and papers with Diamine Monaco Red. Best,
David

For my own purposes, I've used Noodler's Antietam and I think several others have mentioned it also in this regard. It's a unique color, kind of a reddish orangy brown, or a brownish reddish orange or an orangy brownish red, depending on the pen, you get the idea. It gives a nice contrast and with a hint of the traditional red for corrections but not blaring.

Right now my favorite is the recently acquired Noodler's Mata Hari's Cordial, which is a subdued maroon-burgundy. Easy on the eyes but distinct enough from black type. I'll probably be using this for a while - I really like it.

For proofreading and editing, I use Pelikan Brilliant Red and I hate it. It's too clear; it's got no mojo. But it works and it's what I have for now and the only way I'll use it up is if I don't replace it until it's gone.

I use PR Fiesta Red for editing. It's a nice, medium-dark shade of brick red. My #2 choice would be PR Orange Crush.

Personally, I have a thing for writing in Noodler's Squeteague and correcting/annotating my own work with Noodler's Tainanmen (which is more of an ox blood than a vibrant red). But, for student papers, I opt for Noodler's Turquoise more often than not - it's bright and cheery without all the negative associations with a red correction pen.

I mark-up blue prints, usually now black computer printouts.
I use DC Supershow Green. It seems to show up well on either blue- or black-lined prints.

I Use Noodler's Ottoman-Rose for grading.

Levenger's Fireball will get anyone's attention!

I generally use Waterman Red (with some black added to darken it just a shade). I tend to bleed pretty freely all over students' assignments and essays, but no one has ever complained; in fact, a few people recently expressed disappointment when I did my marking with brown ink (PR Copper Burst). Occasionally I use green ink (whatever I can find) instead of red, but I do so less and less frequently, since some of my students favour green ink themselves. Whatever colour one chooses, it should contrast very plainly with the colour of the text on which one's commenting; that's my only criterion, and red generally meets it nicely, whether I'm correcting others' work or my own.

I use Waterman's Green because it flows well on almost any kind of mongrel paper, and I like green instead of red because some students write their exams in red ballpoint.

I've been trying different ink lately:

J.Herbin Orange indien
Sheaffer Skrip Red
Violette Pensée
Caran d'Ache Saffron
Pelikan brilliant red
and lately Noodlers Red-Black

I just change pen everyday before leaving school, my kids this year are somehow non reactive to my exotic ink colour. Well, they are not reactive to much anyway.

Samovar

Practically any true red goes, for example Parker Quink Red. But I don't know, if it stains my pen’s innder surface.

Once I asked my father to read through draft of my Master’s Thesis and correct it with red pen. After he had done his corrections, I read it, too, and used Lamy Turquoise for correcting. That way I was able to distinguish my own corrections from my father’s corrections. It seems turquoise really pops up from normal black-on-white text.

Hmm, no unusual reactions to Red Black? I would expect a question like "What is wrong with your pen"?

(I love Red Black)

I also use Waterman Red. This is for proofreading and editing (marketing and design stuff). I had a look around at a variety of available in-store inks at the time, and this one seemed to me the right red for this work.

Anyway, works well for me. I use it in a pretty little green moire Skyline demi with an XF nib.

- Mark

Diamine Brilliant Red. It combines a clear line with translucency, so that you can always see what you have corrected underneath the correction. I have tried many inks for this purpose, but I have always come back to the Diamine. The Brilliant Red sometimes dries a little pink. I mean to trie their new Vermillion. If this has similar translucency qualities, I might switch to that.

I know MontBlanc ink won't ring many of your bells, but after just getting some of their rose scented "Love Letter" ink from last Valentines Day, I was struck at how wonderful of a red color it is. It is giving my two favorite reds (Caran d'Ache Sunset & Levenger's Cardinal Red) some real competition.

J. Herbin Encre Rouge Caroubier (Ruby Red) in a Red Lamy Safari M nib. It's more of a lighter, pastel red.

Hi there,

I use the most vibrant red I can find for correcting manuscripts, students' work and my own drafts. I would rather risk hurting someone's feelings by using Levenger Cardinal Red or Diamine Brilliant Red than to use some more subdued hue and have them miss a crucial error and correction. Follow your first instincts, they are sound!

Geoff V

It looks like everyone has their own favorite vibrant ink for editing. I am impressed with the variety of inks this group uses. My own editing favorite is J. Herbin "Rose Cyclamen." It is a vibrant, attention grabbing color that also has a lovely hue.

I annotate colleagues' work with Waterman Green and my own with Private Reserve Plum or Fiesta Red.

Chalk another up for PR's Dakota Red, but all I edit is my own work. Not that it makes that much of a difference - I'm a fan of papers being graded in red.

I have been using PR Sherwood Green for years, but just switched to Mont Blanc BRG. I'm rethinking the whole "red issue" this term due to poor performance - next term, Skrip Red!

I use :

- Pelikan green
- Waterman red
- Waterman South Sea Blue

to edit invoice-booking details made by colleagues and to be processed by other colleagues

I use

- Poussiere de Lune
- Violette pensée
- Waterman SSB

to edit stuff going back to the original writer or things I've written myself (lately quite often in Lie de thé)


Greetings

Miguel

I don't necessarily use red. I tend to use a different color for each pass through a document. I usually start with blue, then green, then red.

Deidre, that's a great idea! When I edit my own work, de facto that's how it turns out. I usually use use one pen-full of any ink and when it's done, I switch inks. So - once I get back to editing for the second time, I'm almost always on another ink. But now, I think, I will make that my official policy.

The things one learns in FPN...

Erick

PR Plum
Waterman Purple
and Pelikan Violet

Julio

I should add that I don't start with red because I do a lot of workshop critiques and people feel intimidated by a lot of red ink, and I'm prone to make the most comments in the first read-through.

The way I read, the first edit pass is usually for structural things: is this paragraph in the wrong place? Does this scene start in the wrong place?

The second is for continuity: would this character know that at that point?

The third is for the proofreading.

Has anyone used Diamine Claret? It's a lovely color online, and I keep resisting buying a bottle ... yet I keep feeling its appeal.

I use Noodler's Fox Red. A beautiful red without being to in your face. Plus it's bulletproof!

I haven't tried it yet, but I'm thinking of Noodler's Habanero. Yum! (So far I've been using Noodler's Hunter Green, and that works pretty well - and bulletproof to boot!)

The university that I worked at, had a very strict policy about using red ink to correct student's papers. Red was strictly forbidden, so I decided to switch to Waterman Green, and the students loved it. Apparently, the school felt that red caused students to panic, or become emotionally upset when reading the corrections that were made to their papers.

I realized I've posted to this thread previously, but I've changed my choices. Mata Hari Cordial, though nice, didn't have as much pop as I wanted, so I now tend to use Cyclamen Rose, Lamy turquoise, Waterman SSB, or Waterman Red.

Noodlers Dragon's Napalm, or whatever else I've got. Often it's on
black laser printer output.

Noodler's Widow Maker!
PMS

Parker Quink Red

I use Diamine Passion Red for check marks and grades. It's the same red as you get in gel pens, and it's very well behaved. I sometimes write notes to students with it too but as others have said, they tend not to read them (red=negative comments?) so if I have another pen ready I write comments in J. Herbin Lie de The or various blues; anything that is different than the colour they wrote in and stands out on the page.

Neill

If you are grading papers, a bulletproof ink like Noodler's Fox Red would be useful.