pastel/light blue ink?

[BillTheEditor]

Boston Brahmin Blue is/was a limited edition ink. Pendemonium used to carry it, you see it once in a while here and there on the Web. I think it is out of production. It is a light blue, you could call it sky blue (everyone's idea of what shade of blue the sky is seems to differ).

 

IMO, the scans of Luxury Blue and Bleu Myosotis (sp?) looked "right" -- Lux Blue isn't on the sheet I posted, but it is a bit darker than the Quink Washable Blue. Note that Quink Washable Blue sometimes looks very different from one pen to another and one paper to another.

[kissing]

Quink Washable Blue is probably the most easily accessible ink that's also the cheapest

 

You might even be able to find some at your local store that sells office supplies or stationary

 

 

ps: Parker has three currently available Blues - blue black, their regular blue and the Washable Blue. You can distinguish the ink boxes/bottles by the shade of blue displayed on the labels Also, Washable Blue boxes have a circle with some blue squigly lines (that represent water) to show it is Washable.

Edited January 8, 2007 by kissing

[M4R1N4]

BobR's samples look very accurate to my eye .. tonight I had a chance to dig these out and everyone is right - they are darker than I remembered! Of Q's Washable Blue and Herbin's Myosotis, they are about the same "darkness" (I am forgetting my color theory terminology) but the Herbin has a bit more purple to it. I'll still send you an example in the mail kiwi, but don't get your hopes up!