With a glass dip pen and an oopsie when the YOGP eyedropper fell across the page:



Noodler's Year of the Golden Pig (bulletproof)
Noodler's Legal Lapis (bulletproof, Pendemonium exclusive)
Noodler's Highland Heather (bulletproof, Pendemonium exclusive in the US)
Noodler's Kuprin (bulletproof, Pendemonium exclusive in the US)
Since the Kuprin reminded me of Herbin's Rouge Fuchsia, I pulled that out and added a side-by-side comparison.

Other sizes of the picture here.

i've never heard of herbin rouge fuschia... is that something different from rouge opera and rouge caroubier?

I think that might be the first sighting of a scan of Kuprin on FPN... thanks!!!

also, wasn't highlands heather reformulated? do you know if that's the old or the new version??

It says Rouge Fuchsia on the label, so it may be a different color. I've had that one for a few years.

You're welcome on the Kuprin scan -- I really like the color.

The Highland Heather would be the new formulation.

When the rest of my inks come in, I'll post a big old mega scan.

rouge fuschia and opera red are different...the fuschia tends towards magenta and is purplish, the opera red is tending towards red-red, closer to noodler's tianamin, if that helps. both the fuschia and opera are lovely. i believe the fuschia will stain your pen though.

oh and rouge caroubier (ruby red) is a little more orange red. (i've bought all three at one time or another).

I've just fell in love with the Rouge Fucsia.... did not know it existed, thanks for showing. What did you write the samples with? (Really, really broad, love it!)

Thanks for taking the time to do this comparison, Deirdre.

I have a poor eye for color and I have no way of knowing how accurate my monitor is. The way the "Highland Heath" dried on paper, it looks very similar to J. Herbin "Poussière de Lune." It has an almost pastel grey-burgundy or dusty burgundy quality to it. I love that pastel quality and I have been a major fan of Poussière de Lune for years. I would never dream of using Poussière de Lune to write a check, but if Highland Heath is bulletproof it is a definite check candidate.

Do you have any Poussière de Lune to compare this ink to? Or have I misinterpreted the character of the Highland Heath?

I wrote it with the $2.99 dip pen I bought at isellpens.com -- I think he's got some left.

It's an odd ink, and it's a very complex color, so I'm not sure a monitor would do it justice. When I first pulled the bottle out of its box, it was dark moss green. I thought, "huh, I thought this was supposed to be a purple." I shook the bottle, put it back in its box, and then later pulled it out to write the sample with. It's been purple ever since.

The best I can say is that the green reminded me of the color of the peat bogs in Ireland where heather grows, and the purple of the color of heather that grows on them.

I just picked up the bottle again and it was green -- green in daylight, purple in incandescent and under CF, either green or purple depending on the color temp of the bulb. The high-K bulb is purple, which makes sense because that's my photo light.

So I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's a green-and-purple ink with variable color, much like an alexandrite.

Gee, that does sound complex. I guess it is all the more reason to try it for myself.

Thanks for the response.