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I was thinking today that I would absolutely love a dove grey safari (Me being a grey lover and all that.) What do you think? A light pink? Perhaps a tinted Vista?

 

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Oh yes. Some Vistas like transparent blue, transparent green and so on. Maybe four: all the primary colors plus green. All transparent. Such a beauty.

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Transparent inner cap Vista... Dove grey sounds nice too, perhaps with off white accents / clip.

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It's named Safari. What does one see on safari? I think we need cheetah, leopard, and giraffe spots, and tiger and zebra stripes, and maybe something like these guys' faces:

 

http://www.bonasafari.com/files/animalgall/gamesb.jpg

 

Maybe a ring-tail lemur version:

http://www.lionsafari.com/fpngallery/Lemur.jpg

 

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Dove Grey would be a nice color for a Safari. i would also like a matte coffee brown Safari added.

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I'd like to maybe see green. Not the horrid lime green that Lamy seems so inordinately fond of, and not a blue-y green like Petrol: more of a dark green. Or navy blue. The brown does sound nice, but everyone seems to be doing brown pens these days.... Dove grey also sounds nice....

Or for them to re-release the French Blue.... I saw one at the Toys in the Attic table at OPS (with the red clip), only it was a rollerball.... :crybaby:

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I want to see some pearl/iridescent options in matte finish. I don't mean glitter or metallic swirl, just some well-mixed metallic component. Something with a soft sheen toward anodized sandblasted aluminum.

 

Personally I don't like the glossy plastic safari at all, but the matte finish looks great. My color wishes are:

 

- A matte texture creamy medium gray with purple/lilac undertone with silver accents

 

- A matte texture turquoise that's similar to Tiffany Blue but just a touch more blue, less green; with a black clip, black accents and black nib:

7baea937b07fc390496ee0e4d0c40865--tropic

 

- A full smoke gray Lamy Vista (the same transparent gray plastic as is used on Lamy Al-Star section)

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Matte but bright orange with silver coloured clip, or matte racing green with silver coloured clip.

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Dove Grey would be a nice color for a Safari. i would also like a matte coffee brown Safari added.

Yes, I would love a brown! Lamy released the Line X Lamy safari a while back, but those are too hard to find and are pretty expensive.

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I want to see some pearl/iridescent options in matte finish. I don't mean glitter or metallic swirl, just some well-mixed metallic component. Something with a soft sheen toward anodized sandblasted aluminum.

 

Personally I don't like the glossy plastic safari at all, but the matte finish looks great. My color wishes are:

 

- A matte texture creamy medium gray with purple/lilac undertone with silver accents

 

- A matte texture turquoise that's similar to Tiffany Blue but just a touch more blue, less green; with a black clip, black accents and black nib:

7baea937b07fc390496ee0e4d0c40865--tropic

 

- A full smoke gray Lamy Vista (the same transparent gray plastic as is used on Lamy Al-Star section)

Smoke gray? Sounds cool!

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Hi Josh,

 

Actually, there was a light gray Safari made a long while ago as a LE; there was also a chocolate brown one... available only in S. Korea as a LE, (it was a tie-in with another company I do not recall).

 

My choice for a Safari would be the matte finish in Forest Green, (I guess similar to Ruth's suggestion), or a deep red/light burgundy.

 

 

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Just to follow-up, Intensity's suggestion of a matte Tiffany Turquoise is also interesting. :)

 

 

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anything retro colors! Also matte baby pink and blue!

 

And i would like to see Lamy sell clips so we can exchange/choose what colors clip goes on which color pen.

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Fluorescent orange.

I have the Pico in fluro. Can always find it in the man bag.

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Yes, I would love a brown! Lamy released the Line X Lamy safari a while back, but those are too hard to find and are pretty expensive.

Ditto. I'm not a collector but I'd get one... I can't justify getting o e at the second hand prices. There are even knockoffs of the brown.

 

An Ivory/Creme Safari might pique my interest too.

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Hi Josh,

 

Actually, there was a light gray Safari made a long while ago as a LE; there was also a chocolate brown one... available only in S. Korea as a LE, (it was a tie-in with another company I do not recall).

 

My choice for a Safari would be the matte finish in Forest Green, (I guess similar to Ruth's suggestion), or a deep red/light burgundy.

 

 

- Anthony

Hello, Parker Duofold

 

Yes, I have been looking at that gray. However, I always thought it was a matte gray, and unfortunately, I don't like the matte colors on the Safari. :(

 

I was looking at that brown model! :lol: I remember wanting it pretty badly, only to find that it was nowhere I looked online :angry: It was the Lamy X Line collaboration. Too bad it was too late.

 

 

anything retro colors! Also matte baby pink and blue!

 

And i would like to see Lamy sell clips so we can exchange/choose what colors clip goes on which color pen.

Matte blue sounds great! Though I don't like matte, I could see that being a good combination.

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Purp- oh wait, they actually did that :D

Maybe a really dark red. That might be nice. If it had a matte finish it would be even better.

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Interestingly Lamy hasn't announced any new color for the Safari in 2018 so far. Nor the AL-Star.

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