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Has anyone every thought of trying to come up with a personalized signature ink for their own personal use? You know, the way that there are signature perfumes and such? I've been trying to think of what mine would be and I think I would use a Taupe. BTW, in case anyone wants to look it up to see what shade that is here are the codes:

 

— Taupe Color Coordinates —

Hex triplet #BC987E

RGBB (r, g, B) (188, 152, 126)

CMYKH (c, m, y, k) (0%, 19.1%, 33.0%, 26.3%)

HSV (h, s, v) (25°, 33%, 74%)

B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

 

I don't suppose anyone would be able to give me some ideas as to how to mix up a color like that. It's a fairly light color so I'm not even sure it could translated into an ink color really but I thought I'd ask the think tank group and see! /:)

 

Thanks!

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Hi Becky,

I'm not sure what colour your formula would yield, but I'm sure it's interesting! :lol:

 

I discovered a nice reddish-brown (more reddish than brown) ink mixture by mixing some leftover Parker Quink Blue-Black with some uninspiring (IMHO) Parker Quink Red. I am not sure of the ratio of each that I used :blush: , but it was definitely more red than blue-black in it! I like it so much that I have taken to thinking of it as "my" ink shade :)

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Hi Becky,

I'm not sure what colour your formula would yield, but I'm sure it's interesting! :lol:

 

I discovered a nice reddish-brown (more reddish than brown) ink mixture by mixing some leftover Parker Quink Blue-Black with some uninspiring (IMHO) Parker Quink Red. I am not sure of the ratio of each that I used :blush: , but it was definitely more red than blue-black in it! I like it so much that I have taken to thinking of it as "my" ink shade :)

But now what will you do when you run out of "your" ink shade, Maja?! I do that a lot where I mix something up or it gets mixed up by accident, I really like what the results look like and then because I didn't take notes I don't have a clue as to how to re-create it.

 

The color codes I posted can be plugged into an online color chart so that the color will come up and then see what the "taupe" color that I'm looking for looks like. I wasn't sure how I could do that in a message.

 

If I could come up with a formula for the color I could mix more up any time I run low. At least, that's my theory anyway! LOL!

 

I wonder if water could be added to a saturated ink to lightened up...seems like it would make it too watery then though.

 

*sigh*

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Hi Becky,

I'm not sure what colour your formula would yield, but I'm sure it's interesting! :lol:

 

I discovered a nice reddish-brown (more reddish than brown) ink mixture by mixing some leftover Parker Quink Blue-Black with some uninspiring (IMHO) Parker Quink Red. I am not sure of the ratio of each that I used :blush: , but it was definitely more red than blue-black in it! I like it so much that I have taken to thinking of it as "my" ink shade :)

But now what will you do when you run out of "your" ink shade, Maja?!

Answer: :bonk:

 

 

:lol:

 

 

But seriously.....I do know that it was at least 80% Parker Red because I didn't like that particular red very much (too light for me)...so I just dumped in enough Parker Blue-Black to fill the Parker bottle almost up to the top.

 

Very scientific, I know :rolleyes:

I will have to use some measuring devices, next time....

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Would look like this (Linotype Zapfino Four)

That's it! That's the color I'd like for a signature ink! Wouldn't that look great on vintage writing paper? Too bad my handwriting leaves such a lot to be desired! LOL

 

Thanks for posting what it would look like, saintsimon! :)

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But now what will you do when you run out of "your" ink shade, Maja?!

 

Answer: :bonk:

 

 

:lol:

 

 

But seriously.....I do know that it was at least 80% Parker Red because I didn't like that particular red very much (too light for me)...so I just dumped in enough Parker Blue-Black to fill the Parker bottle almost up to the top.

 

Very scientific, I know  :rolleyes:

I will have to use some measuring devices, next time....

In that case enjoy the color while you can and hopefully you'll get a good close match when you need a new supply. :)

 

Better be sure to keep some bandages on hand though, that head bonking can be brutal! :blink:

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That's a nice colour, Becky!

You're going to laugh but the colour and the name "taupe" remind me of pantyhose  :blush:  :ltcapd:

Oh....jeeze! I'd forgotten about that! :roflmho: :ltcapd: :roflmho: :ltcapd: :roflmho: :ltcapd:

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I bet you could create a good taupe by mixing yellow (more) with purple (less). You might try a less saturated purple, something like Concord Bream or even Iraqi Indigo. I think of taupe as essentially gray shading slightly to purple.

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I bet you could create a good taupe by mixing yellow (more) with purple (less). You might try a less saturated purple, something like Concord Bream or even Iraqi Indigo. I think of taupe as essentially gray shading slightly to purple.

Well, I have some PR Shoreline Gold...that's about the closest I have to a yellow. That's probably too dark. And I have PR Tanzanite which is much too dark for this experiment. At least I have a direction to start in though, thankx!

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The C,M,Y,K is propbably the best colorspace to work in for mixing fountain pen ink.

 

If you like Noodler's you could try your CMYK formula with corresponding quantities of these shades:

 

C=Noodler's Navajo Turquoise for Cyan (just for reference as your formula uses no Cyan)

M=Noodler's Shah's Rose for Magenta

Y=Noodler's Yellow

K=Noodler's Black (probably cut with water or Lexington Gray as K is not usually represented as a dense black.)

 

Then you would cut with water if needed.

 

It's hard to translate color that you can view on your monitor to ink, as the monitor is able to display much more accurate color than you can acheive with mixed ink. It's often out of gamut. The classic printer's dilemma trying to reproduce color in print.

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How can you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

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