Fade Test A Few Purples

[mrcharlie]

Here is a quick and dirty fade test of some purples, namely

 

• Rohrer & Klingner Cassia
  
• Diamine Deep Magenta
  
• Scribal Work Shop Nessie Purple
  
• Vintage Skrip Washable Purple
  
• Pilot/Namiki Black
  

 

The first three are being tested, the other two are controls as a known fader and a known fade-resistant.

 

After only ten days, Cassia has changed color drastically, but it is hard to tell if the color that is left will stay or fade with time. Deep Magenta is faded to a very significant degree. Nessie looks so far unchanged to my eye.

 

Vintage Skrip Purple is fading as would be expected, and Pilot Black is not.

 

Click on image for full resolution scan, if desired.

 

http://imageshack.us/a/img826/35/somepurples20130228600w.jpg

[torstar]

Thank you, I have had reason to use 2 of those 3 inks over the last month or so...

[Bo Bo Olson]

sigh, just got R&K Cassia and got it as a purple ink, not a violet ink.

I have enough violet.

[mrcharlie]

a) what is the difference between purple and violet; i think of those words as synonymous if you got it based on some other color swabs or something, my scans are not "color corrected" or anything. they just need to show if the ink changed at all due to exposure.

Edited March 1, 2013 by mrcharlie

[amberleadavis]

Thank you for the update!

[K. Power]

a) what is the difference between purple and violet; i think of those words as synonymous if you got it based on some other color swabs or something, my scans are not "color corrected" or anything. they just need to show if the ink changed at all due to exposure.

 

Purple is a darker and more blue shade, violet is paler and more red. Think the light from a prism, the colour closer to blue is purple, the colour closer to the point where you stop seeing colour is violet (and the point where you stop seeing colour is diffrent for each person) hence the term ultra-violet for light base radiation humans can't see on that side of the spectrum (and infer-red on the other side).

 

So the difference between purple and violet is subjective, but quite real.

[amberleadavis]

It's funny, but I went to look up colors on the color wheels. I think of purple as the obnoxiously dark and vibrant royal color. Alas, that color is closest to blue-violet and you'll notice that purple is not on the primary, secondary or tertiary list.

 

 

http://www.daha.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/cember.jpg

 

[mAnuscript69]

a) what is the difference between purple and violet; i think of those words as synonymous if you got it based on some other color swabs or something, my scans are not "color corrected" or anything. they just need to show if the ink changed at all due to exposure.

To me, purple is a colour between red and blue on the colour wheel. Violet is between purple and blue while Magenta is between purple and red.

 

i.e. Blue -- Violet -- Purple -- Magenta -- Red

 

As such I always regard Violet as a more "blueish purple" (Diamine Damson) and Purple as a "Royal Purple" (Waterman Purple) while Magenta is rather pinkish to me (Iroshizuku Yama-Budo). I hope this makes sense

[mrcharlie]

These few purples have been up for about a month now. This scan made on 2013-03-13.

 

http://imageshack.us/a/img839/6708/somepurples20130313600w.jpg

Edited March 20, 2013 by mrcharlie

[amberleadavis]

That Nessie purple is holding up well. How is it to write with?

[mrcharlie]

I like it; it is just a little dry but not bad. Flows well enough but always starts. In one of the two pens I've used it in (agio medium nib), it writes a bit of a thin line for the first dozen or so words if the pen sits for more than a day, but then is back to normal flow. In the fine nib pen I used (Sheaffer student Cartridge Pen), it was always the same, a good fine line. The writing on the scan page is from the Fine nib pen.

Edited March 20, 2013 by mrcharlie