Who Here Uses Green Ink In The Office? ...

[cmeisenzahl]

Get any strange looks? ;-)

[tnmike1]

no strange looks. I own the company:) n But DO use either Noodler Navy--with a green/teal look--or Zhivago, which is almost black. Do they count as green???

 

 

[jlepens]

I like bright colors at work. My notes get attention. lie de the, Conway Stewart green, visconti green.

Use at work, yes.

FUNNY Looks?... I carry 10 fountain pens and use them at work. I already get strange looks. lol.

It's funny, the older engineers usually say: "hey, a real pen!" when they see them.

Edited September 30, 2009 by jlepens

[enricof]

Me too, I use Navy and Zhivago without being looked at by my customers (I'm a sales engineer).

 

Once got a strange smile when seen using MB White Forest, now I think about it, but she was a SHE so I hoped it was just my glamour...

[lapis]

I own my company too and I often use green to attract attention.

Vary between the lively Amazon and Kelly; racing green is too dark (a nice colour in itself, however).

But for signatures on my invoices and letters, I use only blues and blue-blacks.

 

Mike

[nchov]

I returned the report with my written comments to my manager. She later came running and asking how did the report end up with the chairman! "What chairman? That's my comments in green," I replied.

 

That was the end of my the Lamy green ink's career in that company.

 

Comments in reports and articles should be lively to make up for the dull paragraphs.

 

By the way, no body borrows any pens from me but rather go the cashier at the coffee bar...

 

Cheers!

[J English Smith]

I just use a wide range of inks anytime at work...greens I like include PR Sherwood Green, Dennis Lively's Green Mix and Herbin Vert Empire (my substitute for MB Racing Green)...

 

Being in advertising fortunately means that you can be as colorful (and weird) as you want...!!!

[Silvermink]

I do. I've previously used PR Ebony Green, Noodler's Forest Green, and MB Racing Green and currently have Caran d'Ache Amazon in my Sahara. I had one of the cashiers at the cafeteria comment that she liked the color of the Forest Green but no one else has commented on them.

[Yoda]

As an academic, I have a great deal of leeway in ink colors and do tend to rotate colors often. I have several browns, purples, and even a red shade that I use. Of course, I also have far, far too many blue and blue-black inks. But, I have tried many green inks and none have really resonated with me.

 

Until I found Noodler's Zhivago. It took several pens to find a "good nib match", but it is very stunning in my Medium Lamy 2000. Unlike drier nibs, it does not appear black. It is a dark green with a significant black base that is both reserved and unique. I welcome any recommendations on other dark green inks.

[Bearcat]

I'm known for my bright green signatures using Conway Stewart Green and either my forest green Parker 51 or my green marbled Waterman Phileas.

[zubipen]

I use green since I was in the Law scholl. Is my standard. I used Script, Montblanc (emerald and racing), Amazon; Pelikan; Visconti. I often use a darker green for signature. The other day I had a meeting with a client for the signature of an agreement, his Secretary noticed that I was ready to sign, and she offered me a Bic with green ink, and expplained: "Mr. Z. always sign with green ink". And I signed with that pen

Edited September 30, 2009 by zubipen

[enricof]

As an academic, I have a great deal of leeway in ink colors and do tend to rotate colors often. I have several browns, purples, and even a red shade that I use. Of course, I also have far, far too many blue and blue-black inks. But, I have tried many green inks and none have really resonated with me.

 

Until I found Noodler's Zhivago. It took several pens to find a "good nib match", but it is very stunning in my Medium Lamy 2000. Unlike drier nibs, it does not appear black. It is a dark green with a significant black base that is both reserved and unique. I welcome any recommendations on other dark green inks.

No ink expert, but I like to alternate Zhivago with MB racing green (similar features but a bit lighter). Very well behaved ink.

[GardenCity-NY]

No comments on green, but several comments on my Rose Cyclamen and Waterman Purple... I work in a bank which is fairly conservative but have no regrets about the colors... if nothing else they are a great conversation starter.

[Aysedasi]

Yes, I use green in the office regularly. I don't get any funny looks at all until I tell them which of the three or four greens I have in my briefcase it actually is - then I'm greeted with the 'you must be a loony' look......

[rwilsonedn]

Yep. Skrip green is in the regular rotation. I prefer it for marking up documents because it is easily visible on the black-on-white page, but doesn't seem to carry the tone of criticism or command that red does. Green seems to suggest collaboration rather than supervision.

ron

[zubipen]

Yep. Skrip green is in the regular rotation. I prefer it for marking up documents because it is easily visible on the black-on-white page, but doesn't seem to carry the tone of criticism or command that red does. Green seems to suggest collaboration rather than supervision.

ron

 

 

That is a very nice explanation

[Silvermink]

Yep. Skrip green is in the regular rotation. I prefer it for marking up documents because it is easily visible on the black-on-white page, but doesn't seem to carry the tone of criticism or command that red does. Green seems to suggest collaboration rather than supervision.

ron

 

I've noticed that the standard for marking seems to be shifting from red to green, though I may not be basing that on a representative sample.

 

EDIT: Interesting (though I think these two articles both dismiss the issue rather flippantly):

 

Red pen too aggressive, Queensland teachers told

Red ink banned from primary books

 

My high school English teacher used to refer semi-seriously to the "blood imagery" of marking things in red pen.

Edited September 30, 2009 by Silvermink

[Sandy1]

Hello,

 

Only the Chartered Accountants are allowed to use green ink; and are required to use green ink for specific documents.

 

Sandy1

[Sandy1]

Yep. Skrip green is in the regular rotation. I prefer it for marking up documents because it is easily visible on the black-on-white page, but doesn't seem to carry the tone of criticism or command that red does. Green seems to suggest collaboration rather than supervision.

ron

 

I've noticed that the standard for marking seems to be shifting from red to green, though I may not be basing that on a representative sample.

 

EDIT: Interesting (though I think these two articles both dismiss the issue rather flippantly):

 

Red pen too aggressive, Queensland teachers told

Red ink banned from primary books

 

My high school English teacher used to refer semi-seriously to the "blood imagery" of marking things in red pen.

 

 

Does this mean that ladies can no longer use red lipstick when sealing a letter with a kiss??? Somehow green lipstick just seems rather, ahh umm - unnatural. (Made me blush - in green of course.)

[vieuxcarre]

I've been using J. Herbin Vert Olive for the past couple of weeks. It has elicited a couple of comments, but (1) few others see what I write and (2) I do work in academia where eccentricity is biven a wider berth than is often offered in corporate America.

 

I have found this color to be a bit light and 'painterly' (as in watercolors) and does suffer bleedthrough on the -EXTREMELY- low quality notepads that are the norm these days.