What Do You Do When You Cannot Use Fancy Ink?

[Keyser]

This my seem like a weird question, but:There are some fantastic looking inks over st the review section, and some that I really really like. Only thing is, I am only allowed to use certain colors at uni. like black or blue (with the exception of graphs) so basically I can't use a thing like the amazing Noodler's Black Swan In Australian Roses.What would you do? Buy the bottle anyway just to look at it? Maybe get it and try some calligraphy with it?Any idea is welcome

[lapis]

I buy what I like and use what I like, but for my own signatures on anything which has to be a formal, official document, either a dark blue-black or a medium to dark blue.

 

Nobody can tell me to stop collecting (except my wife).

 

Mike

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Keep a journal, write letters, try the calligraphy/penmanship route, do the Sunday crossword or sudoku....

For a shading ink like that I would definitely try calligraphy/penmanship. Unfortunately, my Noodler's flex piston still has ink in it and I tried out the Guanleming calligraphy pen with something that was in a bottle, not just a sample vial, because I'm not used to bulb fillers yet.

:hmm1: Maybe when the new Konrad FP comes in I should try out my BSiAR sample in it....

Thanks for giving me the idea.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[The Good Captain]

I buy what I like and use what I like, but for my own signatures on anything which has to be a formal, official document, either a dark blue-black or a medium to dark blue.

 

Nobody can tell me to stop collecting (except my wife).

 

Mike

 

 

And I completely agree and concur with everything that this auspicious poster has written with one exception.

It's MY wife that tells me to stop collecting, not HIS.

 

 

[lapis]

Maybe we can save up a bit and send both of our wives on a small vacation, like a year or two to the Easter Island?

[Laura N]

Oh, men, wives are so easily bribed. I tell you, we are pushovers.

 

To the OP, there are a lot of interesting blues to try, actually. Dark, light, turquoise, cerulean, royal.

 

With the wilder colors, instead of buying bottles, you could try samples. That way you can try more, without having a lot of partially used bottles around. And I don't suppose the blue or black rule applies to personal writing.

[The Good Captain]

Maybe we can save up a bit and send both of our wives on a small vacation, like a year or two to the Easter Island?

As long as they promised to write...

...the pen, a Cross and the ink, Meddler's 'Maroon' do you think?

 

 

[Tiffanyhenschel]

Oh, men, wives are so easily bribed. I tell you, we are pushovers.

 

 

 

+1

And it is not always the wives limiting the collecting ...

[HeartMan]

I've never been at a school that dictated what color ink I could use for my personal notes. For tests they had requirements of black or blue. I would always comply for tests, but I'd ask for clarification for my notes.

[Laura N]

Oh, men, wives are so easily bribed. I tell you, we are pushovers.

 

 

 

+1

And it is not always the wives limiting the collecting ...

 

+1,000

 

And husbands cannot be mollified with a bouquet of flowers or a dinner reservation, either.

[topaz]

I have to use black ink at work. Occasionally I get to use red when there is a special order or blue to draw a little box next to a medication name. I go wild for my notes, journal, and letters- green, turquoise, purple, brown...essentially anything but black. I used multiple colors for my notes in college too. I could remember them better when I rewrote and organized them and that included color coding within the notes.

[lapis]

And husbands cannot be mollified with a bouquet of flowers or a dinner reservation, either.

.... buuhhht.... 

[Geo7700]

I use anything for note taking and brainstorming.

 

However, I would only use blue or black on important work stuff. Thankfully, there is a wide variety of blue, blue-back and black inks.

[Vshin]

Then use BAY STATE BLUE. What are they going to say? That it's too blue? Don't comply with their expectations of mediocrity!!!

[Keyser]

well, as long as it's blue it's fine...

[picautomaton]

I enjoy the subtle differences between different brands of black from solid black like Noodler's and Sailor Nano to shading blacks like Omas and Montblanc. They are all very different once you get into the details, so that's how I enjoy using non fancy inks I focus on the subtleties.

[impossiblebird]

I've never been at a school that dictated what color ink I could use for my personal notes. For tests they had requirements of black or blue. I would always comply for tests, but I'd ask for clarification for my notes.

Quite. Surely it's for nobody else to dictate what colour ink you should use for lecture notes, personal notes ... anything you don't have to hand in for marking.

[USMCMom]

Husbands can be ... uh ... persuaded (I used to have one) and it's true that wives can be easily "bribed". As for what you call "fancy ink" ... buy what you like and as was mentioned, write letters, keep a journal or two. There are many ways to use all those beautiful colors.

[funkypeanut]

Okay, I'll admit that I'm one of the evil profs who tell students that they have to use blue or black on exams, but in truth I'll take anything as long as I can make it out. It's because, back when those milky gel pens were all the rage, I had a group of female students who turned in everything in a milky pink that was so pale it was completely illegible. Now, though, I'm having them email their assignments so that there's a date and time stamp and no question of whether the student shoved it under my door or put it in my box or handed it to random-guy-who-looked-official-hanging-out-in-the-hallway on time.

 

Personal notes? Make yourself happy! Assignments? Make it so I can read it. BSB would be fine, even fun, after reading a pile of exams written in black ballpoint, except that the bluebooks are made out of such cheap, nasty paper that you'd only be able to write on probably every third page. My dream is that someday the uni store will accidentally special order bluebooks from Clairefontaine. Hey, they've made stranger mistakes!

[jbb]

Oh, men, wives are so easily bribed. I tell you, we are pushovers.

 

+1 -- You just need to encourage your wife to buy something of equal or greater value!!!!!