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I often wonder between the genders....

 

Men: 1 to 4 inks at most (Black, Blue, and Walnut) and sometimes RED.

 

Women: Black (4 shades of black & combination with gold glitter, rainbow glitter, pauna shell glitter, and diamond dust), this is just to start.

 

no ... seriously... I only use Black (the one that say 'black' on the bottle that was on sale) ...

 

What do you use?

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

 

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

 

 

Confucius

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I often wonder between the genders....

 

Men: 1 to 4 inks at most (Black, Blue, and Walnut) and sometimes RED.

 

Women: Black (4 shades of black & combination with gold glitter, rainbow glitter, pauna shell glitter, and diamond dust), this is just to start.

 

no ... seriously... I only use Black (the one that say 'black' on the bottle that was on sale) ...

 

What do you use?

Hmm, wonder what Sailor Kiwa-guro would look like with abalone shell glitter. Or black pearl. Or some dark-ish blue like Diamine majestic blue with shell glitter. *beard stroking smiley*

 

Krhm. This year I have been using mostly various kinds of blue or violet. Occasionally something green or oxblood. Absolutely no walnuts. I don't like how walnuts look, taste or smell. Nor do I like brown inks.

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Parker: Sonnet (dimonite); Frontier GT; 51 (gray); Vacumatic (amber).

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http://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/movie/movie_poster/the-world-is-not-enough-1999/large_tCarTEKvXjALk87r3wAxB4jb1ON.jpg

 

12 different inks in 13 pens with something like 30 different inks in my collection atm.

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I don't get the question. If there are "enough" inks, why are there so many threads telling us about new inks? It doesn't make sense.

 

Personally, male, 6 pens currently inked, 6 different inks out of around 25-30 in the ink draw. I don't dare count either my inks or pens in case my wife catches me and asks why I need so many.

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Too many inks is enough for me.

Life is too short to drink bad wine (Goethe)

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It may be worth noting that science tells us women perceive a wider range of difference in colours than men, therefore the possibility is men will be content with fewer colours simply because they can't tell the difference. Don't know if science can tell us if they make up for this by being more picky about shading, permanence, flow, etc, which could rack the bottle count right up again in no time.

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What? I thought "ink" and "enough " could not be used in the same sentence... ;)

 

I currently have around 50, with 10 more on the way, and sometimes it feels like I don't have any ink to use :D

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It may be worth noting that science tells us women perceive a wider range of difference in colours than men, therefore the possibility is men will be content with fewer colours simply because they can't tell the difference.

Are you sure?

 

If you have scientific references rather than my xkcd one, I will be interested. The question is colour distinctions perceived, not colours named.

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Am I sure? No. It was a passing comment based on a long ago "oh, that's interesting" memory.

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Do they actually make abalone shell glitter?

Nah. Unlikely. Even less likely that it would be something that could actually be used in a ink in style of, uh, Rouge hematite. But I don't have anything else to do at the moment than to read FPN and imagining how glorious ink like that could look.

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Kaweco Supra (titanium B), Al-Sport (steel BB).

Parker: Sonnet (dimonite); Frontier GT; 51 (gray); Vacumatic (amber).

Pelikan: m600 (BB); Rotring ArtPen (1,9mm); Rotring Rive; Cult Pens Mini (the original silver version), Waterman Carene (ultramarine F)

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Incidentally, this is nice.

Now that is really nice. Not only the placings but also the namings, e.g. lilac ⇄ lavender, maroon ⇄ burgundy...

 

Mike

Life is too short to drink bad wine (Goethe)

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Are you sure?

 

If you have scientific references rather than my xkcd one, I will be interested. The question is colour distinctions perceived, not colours named.

https://research.ncl.ac.uk/tetrachromacy/whatistetrachromacy/

The vast majority of women are not tetrachromats though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have every colour now, but some hues are not ideal so I still need to try out outher wetter or dryer samples.

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Member of the dude persuasion here.

 

> 100 inks, most any color except pink or teal. The only sparkler is an old bottle of the original version of Rouge Hematite. The collection leans toward darker blues, blue-blacks, non-red browns, murky greens, orangey reds.

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How many inks is enough?

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I know the exact answer - it's 1764!

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