The files I present have calibrated correct values in the file, with an embedded ICC profile for Adobe RGB. You should be able to compare any of my review scans side-by-side to see the difference, because the exposure and adjustment is exactly the same in each ink scan. To aid color perception on your monitor, there is a thin white border to show the paper color (the paper is faintly blue in sunlight) and a gray matte. The matte is perfectly neutral, so judge the color relative to that.
You can see from the Color Picker views that the first two are indeed similar in Hue, being in the blue area toward the magenta edge. But the third is different, being on the other side of the magenta band between magenta and violet. My previous test of Tulipe Noire was darker and more Violet, but I noted that the Hue varied from 320 where it was light to 343 where it went on wet, so it varies in hue not just in brightness variations. That would make this an interestingly expressive ink, which does not show up on the samples I've seen or my own writing. Someone should do some calligraphy with FPN Tulipe Noire and have it scanned, so we can see how the flourishes vary from magenta to violet as they go from light to dark.
Anyway, another ink in the same Hue family as Tulipe Noire would be PR Black Cherry after it's gone stale! My database doesn't have much in it yet, so I can't say what else is close.
As for the others, Waterman Purple would fall just before the first of the three in the order shown, and PR Burg. Mist would fall between the first two and the last about mid-way.
--John
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