Breakdown Of Ink Colors?

[Arkanabar]

This doesn't really work well for me, because so many of my bottles were bought by others and so are not necessarily reflective of my taste.

I am trying to simplify by paring my ink purchases down to the Six Essentials, one each of black (Heart of Darkness), blue-black (very likely Pilot), purple (Diamine Damson), blue (Noodler's Blue Eel; plain Blue is also acceptable), green (Diamine Sherwood), and brown (jury's out)!

I'm allowing myself a second black because I'm ever so slightly leery of putting Heart of Darkness into my dad's black-and-lustraloy "51". But black is hardly my favorite color for writing. And when I was working with paper medical records, I'd keep at least three and sometimes four pens loaded with it, because of CMS regulations.

I loved Waterman Havana Brown, but it fails one of the Essential requirements, fade resistance. I recall it fading to teal just from being left out for a few months. I considered Iro Yama-Guri, but it reminds me of frozen mud and dead twigs. Now I'm considering a number of other alternatives.

I think that what I prefer to write with are brown, green, and Noodler's Blue. I also like to keep up to three markup colors, which can be turquoise, red, blue, orange, fuchsia, or bright green. But one markup color is enough.

[TheYellowHobbit]

I have a shared set of inks with my boyfriend. We have 3 turquoises, 4 purples (both a small and large bottle of Murasaki Shikibu because he got a small bottle and it matched my purple Decimo so well that I decided it would be the default ink for it, so 5 if you count both bottles), 6 burgundies/reds (now I'm asking him because he's right by the filing cabinet o'inks), 1 pink, 4(?) blues, 4 greens, 1 light yellow (for highlighter use), 2 grays, and so far no oranges, 5 blues, and only one true black. And 2 browns.

 

These only count full-size bottles and not sample vials we have.

 

Great. I clearly need more ink now to round out the collection, but I feel like I should wait until I have a job, which won't be for at least another 9 weeks. (Though going 9 weeks without buying something pen-related was probably an unrealistic expectation.)

[AndyYNWA]

Black: 1

Blue/Black: 5

Blue: 3

Teal: 2

Green: 1

Red: 1

Purple: 3

Brown: 2

 

Plus 20-ish vials, mostly blue and blue/blacks, but also other colors.

Edited May 27, 2016 by AndyYNWA

[ENewton]

I have 9 bottles of ink:

 

• 4 dark purples (for work-related writing)
• 2 medium-bright purples (for work-related drawing)
• 1 really bright purple (for markup)
• 1 dusty blurple (for personal writing)
• 1 sepia (for drawings that are supposed to be "mostly neutral, with color for emphasis")

[HollyGolightly]

I'm naming these off the top of my head since I'm not home:

 

Diamine Hope Pink

Private Reserve Shell Pink

Iroshizuku Kosumosu

Sailor Jentle Peche

J Herbin Bouquet D'Antan

Noodler's Habanero

J Herbin Vert Reseda

Noodler's Midnight Blue

Iroshizuku Shin Kai

J Herbin Bleu Myosotis

J Herbin Cafe De Iles

Noodler's Black Swan in English Roses

J Herbin Rouge Hematite

Noodler's Ottoman Rose

Noodler's Saguaro Wine

Noodler's Lexington Gray

J Herbin Stormy Gray

 

Pinks (5)

Reds (3)

Orange (1)

Green (1)

Blues (2)

Purples (2)

Gray (2)

Burple? (1)

 

Unsurprisingly, the lass who obsessively collects pink pens... leans towards pink inks. I would like to whittle down things and get my hands on a few more blues and a black. Definitely want to trim down my list, since I'm not crazy about all of them, only some!

[hbdk]

Of the app. 40 inks in my collection I would say that 25 are in the range black to blue. The others are all over the chart but most of them are dark and saturated. I use the black/blue range 90% of the time.

[Scrivener1]

Approximately:

• 30% blues
• 25% burgundy/wine color
• 20% browns
• 10% greens
• 15% assorted other

I use brown most, blue second most. I found the "right" browns right away so have not experimented further... yet! The burgundy color is a hard one to pin down so I have more of those than I should.

[Runnin_Ute]

Lets see what it looks like. This is only those that are bottles. No sample vials. I do however, have 3 inks in 10 ml vials and have 8-10 ml or more (2 pinks and a purple)

 

Black 2

Blue Black 3

Turquoise 2

Other Blues 6

Brown 1

Red 4

Purple 1

Green 3

Orange 1

[dgerson]

I actually started keeping a spreadsheet of my bottles recently. Checking out the numbers I have:

 

3 Black

1 Gray

1 Brown

1 Red

1 Orange

4 Green

7 Blue

4 Blue-Black

3 Purple

5 Turquoise

1 Pink

 

I'd say it's definitely Blue-centric right now, but I feel that that's because of my early purchasing choices (and that there are just so many darn cool shades of blue!)