What Is Your Favorite Ink?

[HoneyCake]

I just wonder what's your favorite ink. If you tell me I'll find and try it.

 

I like Diamine Peach Haze and Lamy Petrol

 

Thx

[Patrick L]

Lamy Dark Lilac - For it's beauty

 

Sailor irori - reddest red available on the market

 

Organic studio nitrogen - best sheen available on the market

 

noodler Baystate Blue - for it's smell

[NadinefromGermany]

Pilot Iroshizuku tsutsuji. Lately a grey one from that line... kiri same ( had to look into my currently inked list) is growing on me. Nice shading and great behavior but all pilot iroshizuku inks are well behaved. Unlike the Noodlers... even though I love the colors.

[tamiya]

I just wonder what's your favorite ink. If you tell me I'll find and try it.

Copper Orange and Dark Lilac by Lamy

 

Parker Quink green

 

Iroshizuku Konpeki

 

most turquoises

 

deep absolute solid blacks like Penman Ebony... luckily these days we've got Lamy Obsidian and Platinum Carbon Black

[Tas]

Favourite ink for what 😇?

[tamiya]

Favourite ink for what ?

"Wearing on My Fingers" seems to be my most oft usage for ink...

Edited December 28, 2019 by tamiya

[ENewton]

Sailor Kobe Suma Purple

 

Second favorite is TAG Kyoto Kyo-Iro Soft Snow of Ohara

[FlyFast]

Diamine Oxblood

Pilot Iroshizuku Ass Gao

Pilot Blue

[Tom Kellie]

~ So many inks qualify, each of which is fun for sketching and writing.

No favorite has ever emerged, as my writing desk is blessed with a wealth of hues, tones and shades of color.

Which inks have I used most in 2019?

Probably Diamine China Blue and Fritz Schimpf Fritzrot.

Tom K.

[aurore]

Diamine Oxblood

Pilot Iroshizuku Ass Gao

Pilot Blue

 

The coolest typo I have ever seen here A great ink in any case.

[tinta]

Platinum's Classic blue/black is a long time favourite. There is always one pen that's loaded with this ink in my rotation.

 

At some point in my fountain pen journey, there have been other contenders for a favourite. Most of the iron-gall inks that have been formulated for fountain pens have figured in this longer list.

 

Generally though, blue/blacks, sepia/browns & purples get the most mileage in my pens. So, for me, instead of a brand, it's a class of colour or a formulation that's important.

[Noihvo]

[inkstainedruth]

I'm not sure I have just one.... I like different inks for different purposes. And different colors as the mood strikes me -- blue, blue-black, brown, pink, purple, gold, green; even red and black at times have their uses. But if I were to go out on a limb it might be Noodler's Kung Te Cheng -- and that's in *spite* of it being badly behaving sometimes (cloggy and with horrendous nib creep). Because I've never found an ink quite that color (dark indigo with purple undertones, that even sheens on very good paper); and because that ink is pretty much *everything* proof. Waterproof, UV resistant, writes on Post-it flags... I suspect it will survive the Zombi Apocalypse, the *real* Apocalypse, and (though I haven't actually tried it ) I half suspect it will hang in mid-air after paper written with it is burned to ashes....

I have yet to find a pen that it's good in all the time. But oh that color -- and oh that permanence (yeah, I have some spots on my grandparents' dresser that will never come off that are KTC-colored... Not to mention some indigo purple stains on a set of sheets and the side of the box springs... ).

HoneyCake, don't say I didn't warn you.... (I blame it on Amberlea Davis myself... and sometimes wonder who SHE blames it on.... )

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[rickap]

This week:

Diamine Burgundy Royale

Parker Quink Blue Black (new formula)

Diamine Evergreen

Pelikan 4001 Blue Black and Montblanc Midnight Blue are trying to muscle in there.

 

Happy New Year!

[VivienR]

Sailor Kobe Sannomiya Panse, before that Diamine Imperial Purple

[Southerngent]

What an interesting thread! I just joined this group and am learning so much already! I wanted a vibrant orange ink to go with my vibrant orange Pelikan pen but will have to keep trying. Most of the orange inks I've seen are faded and anemic-looking, at least to me. I tried making a mixture by adding some Montblanc toffee brown to a bottle of Edelstein Mandarin orange but I won't say what the new color looked like! So I learned my lesson. And besides, I also learned that the acidity levels and chemistry are so different in different ink formulas that it's evidently not a good idea to try to mix them yourself.

[LizEF]

I wanted a vibrant orange ink to go with my vibrant orange Pelikan pen but will have to keep trying.

 

Check out Akkerman Oranje Boven - very vibrant (IMO).

[tubular]

Bungubox Fujiyama Blue (bright silvery turquoise)

 

Sailor Kingdom Note Rosalia Batesi (blue)

 

Sailor Shikiori Okuyama (purplish red)

 

Kyo-Iro #2 Morning Snow (cool purple-leaning gray)

 

--These I love; most people (except ENewton, I see, who likes Morning Snow) don't. But I think everybody agrees that Iroshizuku Tsuki-Yo (tealish blue black) is lovely.

Edited December 30, 2019 by tubular

[peroride]

Kobe Itoya Ginza Gold Sepia - good trip memories

 

Platinum Carbon Black is the new Black black

[DrDebG]

What an interesting thread! I just joined this group and am learning so much already! I wanted a vibrant orange ink to go with my vibrant orange Pelikan pen but will have to keep trying. Most of the orange inks I've seen are faded and anemic-looking, at least to me. I tried making a mixture by adding some Montblanc toffee brown to a bottle of Edelstein Mandarin orange but I won't say what the new color looked like! So I learned my lesson. And besides, I also learned that the acidity levels and chemistry are so different in different ink formulas that it's evidently not a good idea to try to mix them yourself.

 

My favorite orange to date is Pilot Iroshizuku Yu-Yake. The other Pilot orange ink is Fuyu-Gaki, but that has more red in it. Check them out on Amazon.