Inky T O D - Inks That Make You Feel Sad

[Barkingpig]

Any thought why on orange? It's one of the only foundation colors I lack.

I believe the color choice in ink is purely personal & subjective. I despise BLACK, don't care for Blues & yet am a pure sucker for ALL oranges. I will practically buy them ALL in the quest for the "best" orange to my eyes. Some are disappointments but even those are better than ANY Black I can imagine. Use also has something to do with choice because I no longer need any "work place" suitable inks BUT merely inks for personal use & correspondence. Greens & Browns get the most "air time" BUT the oranges make me HAPPIEST, Omas Orange, Montblanc's "Ink of Joy," Sailor's Onago-iro Days "Honey," are the ones I can count on to make me smile.

[rudyhou]

'grey' color tone of ink is not for everyone. in general, it is the sort of color that is associated with the feel of somber and winter. that said, those who are attracted to this sort of color tone does so because it gives a non-intrusive shade of color that is easy on the eyes when found on many words written on white paper. i for one, love grey and greyish tone of ink colors. because i do prefer to read a softer tone of color on white paper. but again, it's not for everyone. and judging from your past, yes, i totally understand why you would not be a fan of it.

[wallylynn]

Hmmm, so many posts hating black. I used to hate black. Until I got Heart of Darkness. That's when I learned that those ball points were just grey. Its grey that I hate, thin piddly grey lines. Deep, dark, hefty black letters are easy to read.

 

My sad ink would be Montblanc Blue-Black, the IG version. I love using it. Then I remember it's discontinued which makes me regret using it.

[fountainpagan]

Most males don't.

 

 

Really? I wouldn't know, not being one myself...

[Flaxmoore]

Pulling this from the depths to add one- J Herbin 1670 Bleu Ocean, at least my goldless variety. If Tsuki-yo evokes joy for pulling in ancestral memory of the sea as I said in the other thread, BO simply seems flat and sad. It's an artificial pond with no life, just blank. It sits in the bottle, waiting for either a PIF or the sink, and plain Skrip Blue to go in the bottle- at least that pond has fish.

[KLscribbler]

Pelikan 4001 Blue Black when used in a dry-writing pen. It then becomes a particularly somber, cool gray. Much better to use that ink in a pen with a very wet medium or broad nib. Then it is not so depressing (and gets quite a bit more interesting).

[webgeckos]

Only one ink made me angry: Stipula Saffron. I was prepared to love this. I found it so dry it felt painful to write with. Maybe it needs to go into a med. super wet pen.

 

Inks that make me angry: Cigar: why must you spurn my advances and be so elusive?

[haruka337]

Purple inks with pink undertones, but it annoys me more than saddens.

Brown-Green inks? Everyone loves 'em, all want em' but few list them as favorites in an ink list. {Sob!}

[inkstainedruth]

Pulling this from the depths to add one- J Herbin 1670 Bleu Ocean, at least my goldless variety. If Tsuki-yo evokes joy for pulling in ancestral memory of the sea as I said in the other thread, BO simply seems flat and sad. It's an artificial pond with no life, just blank. It sits in the bottle, waiting for either a PIF or the sink, and plain Skrip Blue to go in the bottle- at least that pond has fish.

 

And the worst part was all the hype about it when it was first released. Adding the gold dust helped it a lot. But possibly not enough to make me want a full bottle (as opposed to Stormy Grey, which I LOVE...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Drawing61]

So far the ink I've felt blah about is Waterman's Serenity Blue. No inspiration.

[Drawing61]

Purple inks with pink undertones, but it annoys me more than saddens.

 

Brown-Green inks? Everyone loves 'em, all want em' but few list them as favorites in an ink list. {Sob!}

Brown-green my elusive sweetheart. Has anyone found one they would recommend?

[vorpal]

Private Reserve Sepia. Sometimes brown, sometimes green. Always shading.

[chromantic]

I've yet to encounter an ink where the color itself made me sad.

While I may occasionally

be disappointed that a color might not be what I was expecting, I'm more likely to be sad when a color I like performs so poorly it's un-usable.

[benbot517]

The cartridges of Lamy Blue that come with their c/c pens. If one doesn't have a converter, I find Lamy Blue is quite possibly the dullest and most disappointing way to start using an otherwise wonderful brand new pen.

[haruka337]

Brown-green my elusive sweetheart. Has anyone found one they would recommend?

 

Sailor Jentle (Four Seasons) Rikyu-Cha.

 

Wait another month and a half and it will be available for purchase in the states. :c)

[Bookman]

A lot of inks are saddening. Not the inks themselves, but the names. Akhmatova, Pasternak, Tsvetayeva all great poets in the 20th century, all suffered under Stalin's oppression, all lost friends or relatives who just disappeared. Tsvetayeva committed suicide. Akhmatova's first husband was summarily shot by Stalin's henchmen. Her son was repeatedly arrested for trumped-up anti-Stalinist activities. 54th Massachussetts: Think of the indignity and racism they had to suffer to get the right to be annihilated trying to breach that garrison. Old Dutch Colony: Weren't the Dutch the first traders of African slaves? Burma Road reminds me of the Burma Railway of WWII. Thirteen thousand allied POW's died building that thing for their captors. Dragon's Napalm reminds me of the little girl on the front page of The New York Times running with burning napalm on her back. Now, in fairness, I'm sure these are all fine inks to write with and look at, although I can only speak to Dragon's Napalm, the only one of them I've used, and ironically its color reminds me of an old first-aid topical medicine, Mecurochrome.

Edited September 5, 2016 by Bookman

[Mercian]

On 3/24/2016 at 3:06 PM, Flaxmoore said:

Iroshizuku Fuyu-syogun- this one came in a sampler pack from my parents. I've fought depression for years, and this one just looks like depression feels, in my book. It's (to my eyes) dreary grey, that washed-out feeling where the edges blur on the world. Some love it for the reminders of happy winters past, but for me, it's a visual note of some of the hardest parts of my life.

Well, as a sufferer of Seasonal Affective Disorder, I have to say that I completely agree with your thoughts about Fuyu-syogun!

 

I had to look it up, but when I did so I found that its appearance makes me want to congratulate Pilot for reproducing exactly the colour of the soul-sapping nifl that blights my every Winter here in the UK.
For most people, I am certain that it will provoke a delightful nostalgia for Winters-past 

 

Fuyu-syogun matches its name perfectly - and while I sincerely applaud the ability of Pilot’s chemists to formulate an ink whose appearance stimulates such a powerful emotional affect, I know that I simply must avoid it 😁