Only One Ink

[rj1167]

A puzzle for all.

You're allowed to have only one ink to write with for the rest of your life. What would that ink be?

Answer carefully, you're only allowed one.

[Abner C. Kemp]

I think this question has been answered quite a few times but I'll bite. KWZI IG Orange. It oxidizes to a sepia brown tone I prefer, offers plenty of shading, flows well, and is quite water resistant. I'd never want to be strapped to one ink though.

Edited January 2, 2016 by Abner C. Kemp

[JefferyS]

Aurora Blue, not because it is my favorite, but because it isn't too strange to use for just about everything. Tried and true.

[carlos.q]

Many times has this question been posted. My answers have always been different.

This time around it will be MB Permanent Blue: Nice color, great shading, waterproof and excellent on cheap paper. What more can I ask for?

[Ron Z]

I've been using Pelikan blue exclusively for the last 4 or 5 years, and see not reason to change. I buy it by the liter, and test every pen that I repair with it. I go through a lot of ink.

[haruka337]

Iroshizuku Take-sumi: The ever dutiful ink.

[Icywolfe]

Pilot Iro Fuyu-syogun

[Algester]

Sailor Kiwa-guro...

[NinthSphere]

Probably Noodler's Nightshade.

[ink-syringe]

For years (perhaps the whole 1990s), i mostly just used straight up Pilot Blue and Pilot Black (when here in Korea) or Waterman Florida Blue (back home) and Black back home and was just fine with that.

 

If I had to pick today? Perhaps Visconti Blue (though Diamine Blue Velvet has started to go into a lot of pens in the last few months) or (despite my dislike of most of the Iroshizuku line up) Iroshizuku Asa-gao which I have used 2 bottles of and liked enough that just bought my third on a trip to Osaka, where it is really nicely priced ($10).

 

(but I also bought a 70ml bottle of regular Pilot Blue and a 70ml Pilot Blue-Back, which was per ml in Japan. insanely cheap and came in those glass bottles that I like every bit as much as the Iro bottle)

 

If Black then Aurora Black.... (I would only choose Blue or Black)

 

But today, gun to my head: Visconti Blue

Edited January 2, 2016 by ink-syringe

[northstar]

Parker Penman Sapphire.

[Fuzzy_Bear]

I refuse to answer.

[dylim1]

Noodler's General of the Armies. It starts with "sort of green" and turns to blue. Waterproof and quite easy to maintain.

[migo984]

I don't understand the question. Must be written in Martian & therefore is alien to me ;-)

[pkotrcka]

Probably a boring ink to many people, but Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black.

[HDoug]

Sailor Kiwa-guro...

Me too.

 

Doug

[AndyYNWA]

Sailor Sei-boku would be a top contender....

[dasXFnib]

Waterman Serenity Blue.....

SAFE, inexpensive, and (in most regions) plentiful....

Just my $.02 on the subject....

 

Always try to get the dibs.....on fountain pens with EF nibs!!

[LeonW]

"Montblanc Lemniscate" Limited Edition, to be released soon.

[Arkanabar]

Not on your LIFE!!

I suppose I could do all of my writing in Heart of Darkness, and all of my markup in Sheaffer Skrip Turquoise, but I must have a markup ink in addition to a writing ink.