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I've prepared excel worksheet with De Atramentis inks - it's not complete, I need to update it with scented inks, but if you want, take a look or download it. Alva Edison is actually Black Red. Aubergine has at least four names: Aubergine, Louise Aston, Giacomo Puccini, Birthday ink.

 

You are awesome.

 

And no wonder I liked TA Edison, I liked Black-Red.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hi folks,

 

I would like to try a De Atramentis ink but I can't really tell where to start; I get overwhelmed by all their offerings and names. Can you help me with some recommendations? I don't live anywhere near a pen/ink store, so....

 

I like blue(darker), blue-black, purple, green. Anyone have any faves in these colors from De Atramentis? And permanence doesn't matter...

 

Thanks!

 

 

Ehm I do have all Standard inks... WIll post a comparison of all These colours soon. Just finished the Blue comparison

 

So I guess I will send you a postard written with These inks

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I recently ordered samples of Fog Grey and Cement (Charles Dickens), as possible grey candidates and was amazed to find them distinct enough to work well together! Their particular qualities (in this case blue and green) are brought out through adjacency. There is a lot of subtlety in this grey world!

 

. . . so then I go to order a full bottle of Fog (which won my audition for the particular requirement of "Slate Blue") and find there are at least two other greys in the DeAtramentis line - Mouse and Silver (I'm not counting Sahara here, although that does have it's own appeal). Has any one done a side-by-side comparison of all the DeA grey range? Are they really distinct enough to justify four?

 

p.s. I reluctantly resisted Cement as I already have Diamine's Graphite. Not sure that I don't prefer Cement for behavior and distinct green quality (graphite's ambiguity shades between intriguing with the right nib and paper to a bit dull without) but hard to justify both!

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I love, love, love Sherlock Holmes. It is the only 1 that I bought a 2nd bottle bef I finished the 1st.

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Hi folks,

 

I would like to try a De Atramentis ink but I can't really tell where to start; I get overwhelmed by all their offerings and names. Can you help me with some recommendations? I don't live anywhere near a pen/ink store, so....

 

I like blue(darker), blue-black, purple, green. Anyone have any faves in these colors from De Atramentis? And permanence doesn't matter...

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

Hello I have ALL De Atramentis standard Inks.... PM me your adress and I will send you a postcard with written with the inks you want to see...

 

How about that ??? :)

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Das leben ist wie ein Perpetuum Mobile mit ein Mangel..... Immer im Bewegung jedoch nicht unendlich. (life is like a troubled Perpetuum Mobile ever moving but not for ever)

Tricked throughout the centuries...

For centuries people had been tricked by kings & "religion-alism"

In the 20th century people got tricked by communism

Today people get tricked by (neo)capitalism :)

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Could someone suggest the blackest of black inks (from any manufacturer) that is waterproof?

 

I have De Atramentis Document ink Black....

 

The ink is nuclear holocaust proof but I do not know if it is black enough…. Postcard???

Das leben ist wie ein Perpetuum Mobile mit ein Mangel..... Immer im Bewegung jedoch nicht unendlich. (life is like a troubled Perpetuum Mobile ever moving but not for ever)

Tricked throughout the centuries...

For centuries people had been tricked by kings & "religion-alism"

In the 20th century people got tricked by communism

Today people get tricked by (neo)capitalism :)

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Well I have all inks

have a look here

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/322431-de-atramentis-comparison-of-all-standard-inks/page-3?do=findComment&comment=4121676

 

And PM me for life written text

Das leben ist wie ein Perpetuum Mobile mit ein Mangel..... Immer im Bewegung jedoch nicht unendlich. (life is like a troubled Perpetuum Mobile ever moving but not for ever)

Tricked throughout the centuries...

For centuries people had been tricked by kings & "religion-alism"

In the 20th century people got tricked by communism

Today people get tricked by (neo)capitalism :)

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