Classic Blue Is Pantone 2020 Color Of Year

[Pensei]

Let the quest begin for closest ink match!
https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-of-the-year/color-of-the-year-2020

[lgsoltek]

The first ink I thought of. Perhaps a tad too green in writing?

[SchaumburgSwan]

The first ink I thought of. Perhaps a tad too green in writing?

 

 

Hi,

 

not bad! :-) Like looking up in the sky on a summer day...

I was thinking about my R.Oster Midnight Sapphire, but it is too dark.

 

Best

Jens

[sansenri]

Its always difficult to exactly understand a colour on an electronic screen

It does look somewhat close to Horizon blue I m using at the moment. Horizon has a touch more turquoise and lighter tones when it shades.

[sombrueil]

I'm thinking Diamine Oxford Blue.

[Eclipse157]

KWZ Azure #1?

[senzen]

Let the quest begin for closest ink match!

https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-of-the-year/color-of-the-year-2020

 

Thanks for this, I like this colour; I currently get something similar by mixing Sheaffer Skrip Blue with L'Artisan Pastellier Callifolio Équinoxe 6, but I would much rather get it more consistently and without having to mix (if stored nib down there seem to be some sediments that make it go extra dark; nib up it looks greener ): Misty Blue as shown by Lgsoltek looks close. To me it's a medium dark blue with a slight green tinge.

 

[ethernautrix]

Kindv looks like Fountain Pen Hospital's Manhattan Blue....

[Oldane]

Its always difficult to exactly understand a colour on an electronic screen

..... unless the screen is freshly calibrated with a hardware screen calibrator device like Spyder, PhotoMunki or the like, and one has the color spaces in check (photo freaks will know what that is).

[countrydirt]

I decided, a few weeks ago when I was reorganizing my desk and choosing some inks to donate to our high school art department, that I would focus on 1 ink at a time in order to actually empty out some bottles in 2020. I have 2 bottles that are about 1/3 full of Noodler's Blue, so they are my targets for the year. Who knew that classic blue would be the chosen color? I have no interest in trying to match up the ink with this screen. I just found it interesting that I selected, randomly, a similar color for my yearly focus.

[essayfaire]

Krishna's Lyrebird Pure Blue? Hard for me to tell on a screen.

[peroride]

I run my monitor super warm to lessen blue light so hope this crowdsourcing can come close as it would take a while to buy the cheapest item: keychain lanyard loop then run the ink samples against that

https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-of-the-year/color-of-the-year-2020-shop-pantone-classic-blue

[Karmachanic]

I run my monitor super warm to lessen blue light so hope this crowdsourcing can come close as it would take a while to buy the cheapest item: keychain lanyard loop then run the ink samples against that

https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-of-the-year/color-of-the-year-2020-shop-pantone-classic-blue

f.lux app can help with that.

[peroride]

Thank you @Karmachanic fun,fun https://fluxometer.com/rainbow/#!id=Light%20Therapy/Carex%20Daylight%2012%20inches

[VivienR]

My reaction to the color: meh... boring....

[peroride]

Based on @taimdala's research getting the hex code

 

I went over here:

• https://www.gouletpens.com/pages/swab-shop
• https://andersonpens.com/ink-tool/

and looked at the hex changes when comparing against #0f4c81

 

<drumroll please>

 

Top candidates:

• Diamine Asa Blue
• 3 Oysters Blue
• Monteverde Capri Blue
• KWZ Azure #2
• Diamine Majestic Blue
• Noodler's V-Mail Midnight Blue
• Noodler's Midnight Blue
• Organic Studio Blue Crab
• Robert Oster School Blue
• Robert Oster Blue Sea
• Rohrer & Klingner Blau Permanent
• Visconti Blue

Your turn!

 

[ethernautrix]

Thanks for that, peroride!

 

Nice, one of my favorite blues is on the list. KWZ Azure #2. Also, Visconti Blue. Lovely blues.

[Misfit]

Based on @taimdala's research getting the hex code

 

I went over here:

 

• https://www.gouletpens.com/pages/swab-shop
• https://andersonpens.com/ink-tool/

and looked at the hex changes when comparing against #0f4c81

 

<drumroll please>

 

Top candidates:

• Diamine Asa Blue
• 3 Oysters Blue
• Monteverde Capri Blue
• KWZ Azure #2
• Diamine Majestic Blue
• Noodler's V-Mail Midnight Blue
• Noodler's Midnight Blue
• Organic Studio Blue Crab
• Robert Oster School Blue
• Robert Oster Blue Sea
• Rohrer & Klingner Blau Permanent
• Visconti Blue

Your turn!

I was starting to lose hope I had a color on the list. Then I saw Visconti Blue, which I think Santa Claus will be bringing me.

[peroride]

Sorry folks I should have added a bias disclaimer to the original post.

 

My highly subjective acceptance criteria skipped a few companies like Colorverse and De Atramentis among others.

 

If you're a fan, please avail yourselves: https://andersonpens.com/ink-tool/ or https://www.gouletpens.com/pages/swab-shop

 

I also found another great ink repository: Fountain Pen Ink Info

 

Another issue in the comparison method was that the ink sample images varied in shade so moving around the cursor in Procreate produced varied hex values while the Pantone sample is uniform throughout. So the compromise was a subjective color difference between the target Pantone then moving the cursor around the sample candidate (sampling the sample) and noting the change in RGB slider movement. The samples that had less movement (more accurate to Pantone) got on the list.

 

I am hoping someone with real working knowledge can educate us or share a better plan! or our crowdsourcing will reach epiphany

 

All in good fun

[peroride]

If you want to play

 

The Blue hue sort

• Starts https://www.fp-ink.info/en/?order=h&page=6
• Ends https://www.fp-ink.info/en/?order=h&page=10