Hey there,

This is a plus for anyone who's into horror, mysteries, vampires, Gothic stories, etc., into the dark side. I've been looking for a true blood red ink for a very long time and there's no company that comes even close to matching the color of real human blood.

It a way, this would be really cool in your pen! It would get the juices flowing and just make some real terrific stories to jot down.

Human blood when fresh, has a true red color, with proteins, amino acids and the like. When dried, the stains turn into a brownish color and depending on there composition, is sometimes darker or lighter. So the blood constantly changes depending on the person.

Blood Red Ink, would be suitable for any true writer delving into the darkness of humanity; you know who I am talking about, you devil you! I am sure Ann Rice would love to get her hands on ink that simulates human blood. Now if someone had enough chemistry in his or her background to make Blood Red Ink, wouldn't it be possible to do it?

Any suggestions of which ink out there now are like this? What's your opinion?

Try Private Reserve Fiesta Red for a living, fresh from the cut blood look; Montblanc sepia for that been dead a few hours, dried blood look.

wait, so are you looking for fresh or dried blood? I have both. kidding.

Noodler's red/black does a nice in-between job, dancing between red and brown. In any case, if you think about it enough it can be kinda creepy. Definitely my favorite ink.

Antietam from Noodlers.

Kurt

Second that.

Diamine Monaco Red looks like dried blood as well. I believe this topic has been posted before if you do a search on it you will be able to find a whole collection of inks. They're out there!

Been meaning to try that one... as well as the red-black.... off to Swisher's I go

Been thinking about hand-copying a HPLovecraft story for a friend of mine into a rougly bound notebook... think a dried-blood looking ink would be perfect.

I think Noodler's Burgundy looks like dried blood when it dries.

Lisa

I don't believe it is made any more, but if you can find Omas Vespucci Red, I think it is the closest to blood-colored.

Regards, greg

I haven't used it for a while, but I seem to recall that Waterman Red was what I would call a blood red.

There have been a few people expressing the desire for blood red ink, and this has been discussed a few times before.

My choice of blood red ink is Diamine Monaco Red, which is a dark but true red.

And as a second recommendation Jack the Ripper used Diamine red ink when the blood he saved didn't work in his pen.

Before someone calls "that's not true" on this it is written in one of the authentic Ripper letters.


Kurt

Another vote for Fiesta Red. Sometimes I add a drop of black ink to darken it up a bit.

Can I put in a vote for a mix of Fiesta and Antietam. It moves it to the brown red.

Kurt

One more vote for PR Fiesta Red -- a great dark red ink, especially in a wet writer.

This is what I settled on and just bought a couple weeks ago. I was told that Omas dropped "Vespucci" from the label, but "Red" is the same stuff. I loaded it into my skinny 144R.

Fred

Noodler's Antietam gets my vote as well. I use it in every letter I write.

Skript Red, very vivid true red.
Waterman Red, pretty close to the real color of blood.

I used a cartridge of Sheaffer Skrip red recently and found that when it's wet first going onto the page, it has a nice deep red color that I enjoyed. But when it dried, it turned brown, which bugged the heck out of me. Now that I think about it, it looked exactly like dried blood, which wasn't what I wanted, but maybe it will do for you.

I got a nosebleed the other night and was shocked at how - red! - the blood was, almost Skrip Red color. I had half a mind to grab a dip pen and a shallow bowl to catch the drips.

In addition to Fiesta Red, I'd recommend Djinn of the Eternal Flame (aka Devil Red) in Swisher's line (made by Noodler's I believe). Djinn is a brilliant, true red and looks a lot like blood when cleaning off my nib after a filling. That and Fiesta Red are my two favorites at the moment.