Coloured Inks, What Do You Use Them For?

[Bill]

Dark browns are my every day carry and have been for several years, except in demonstrators. Sort of my…ahem…signature color. The dozens of other colors I have get occasional use a seasoning for the main dish.

[mcc1701]

I usually have at least 4 different ink colors at one time. I have a 50 year old bottle of Parker Quink Washable Blue, Chesterfield (which is repackaged Diamine) Ink, in Amethyst (purple), Turquoise, and Tourmoline Green. I use the blue for official documents, and the other three, I rotate the other colors around when I'm taking notes for class. I don't have a specific system, but I switch color for each day so that I can more easily keep track of the day's notes.

 

I also have a brown, black, and a midnight blue that are not currently in rotation, but will probably make it there within the next few months.

[A144]

I'm an inkaholic, so I'm changing inks frequently. I don't have a specific color for a specific task. I also don't really use black ink at all.

 

I'm a college student and pharmacy intern. At school, I use whatever colors I want for taking notes. I use Rhodia notebooks, so any ink goes. For anything I may turn in, I still use a wide range of colors as long as they aren't too bright: dark reds, lots of greens, blues, darker purples, etc., but no Apache Sunset or Apple Glory.

 

At work, most of my writing is notes for myself on scrap paper. Any color will do for that. I also write out prescriptions on script pads from the phone and voice mail. For this, I have to stick with inks that won't bleed and feather. I still use a wide variety of colors, but again nothing too bright. I found out last night that Kon-peki works wonderfully on the crappy paper that our script pads are printed on. And it's unique enough of a blue to stand out.

 

If I had a "signature color" I'd have to say it's green. Over a third of my small ink collection is green. I recently switched pharmacies, but if you ask anybody at my old pharmacy who wrote this script in green, they'll tell you it was me.

[ethernautrix]

I prefer to use black ink in my notebook, with a couple of contrasting colors to stand out.

 

For writing letters, I prefer a rich dark color, maybe a shiny dark reddish-brown or a dark glossy blue - something dark and shiny that's easier to read than some pretty but light colors.

 

Otherwise, the not-blacks I use are for fun. I should start doodling like AmberLea.

[Fabienne]

I use colored inks for everything I use black and blue. However, I don't write sympathy notes with them, that is strictly black and blue ink.

 

...unless the deceased is a person I didn't like, then I write the sympathy note in any color I damned well please.

[amberleadavis]

I prefer to use black ink in my notebook, with a couple of contrasting colors to stand out.

 

For writing letters, I prefer a rich dark color, maybe a shiny dark reddish-brown or a dark glossy blue - something dark and shiny that's easier to read than some pretty but light colors.

 

Otherwise, the not-blacks I use are for fun. I should start doodling like AmberLea.

 

Hey, we can trade doodles. Your stuff is fantastic!

[Tanzanite]

I use any ink colour that i happen to prefer at the moment both at home and at work but I don´t use too extreme colours on serious meetings. Pink ink usually stays at home or is used för markings in text. I really enjoy coloured ink and during long grey or white winters they are a necessity.

[Pira]

My calendar / to-do notes are an assortment of colours (I tend to have 4 or 5 pens inked up at any one time on my desk) ...but oddly enough I use black only when drawing.

 

Mind you... I use all of my inks for drawing and various other art.

Edited May 17, 2014 by Pira

[Runnin_Ute]

Currently I have the following in pens:

 

Diamine Steel Blue - 2 different pens

4001 Blue Black

Apache Sunset

Diamine Classic Red

Shocking Blue

54th Massachusetts

Levenger Empyrean

Diamine Blue Black

Gray

Diamine Sherwood Green

 

The Gray will get rotated out as soon as I finish off the sample I have. I may put Voorhout VIolet in that pen or one of several samples Amber sent me. (I got the gray from her)

[richardandtracy]

Writing.

+1

 

The only ink I don't use regularly at work is orange. Which gives me a range of 21 inks that are black, blue, turquoise, purple, red, green & brown. The days when I only used turquoise are gone for good.

 

Regards,

 

Richard

[Tanzanite]

Inks that I have in pens for work now are:

Kaweco Red

Waterman Tender Purple

J Herbin Éclat de Saphir

Rohrer & Klingner Königsblau

J Herbin Bleu Nuit

Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite

Pelikan 4001 Turquoise

Pelikan Edelstein Jade

Waterman Green

Private Reserve Spearmint

Pelikan Edelstein Mandarin

 

I don´t bring all of them every day thoug. Only 6 to 8 of them. I can´t squeeze more in to my penroll. I Think i might need a larger one.

[paulmcmanus]

I think with my pen so if I'm not writing a letter (I have blue notepaper so I need to use ink in the blue spectrum on that) I use whatever takes my fancy. Blue is probably easiest on the eye and Asa gao is my current favourite, but I'm strangely partial to oranges and reds. Diamine Blaze Orange and Noodler's Apache Sunset being the most used.

[The Journeyman]

Hi all, I confess I have been very boring in my choice of inks. I use Mont Blanc mystery black for all purposes. I would like to use a specific colour just for my signature. It has to be bulletproof and a vibrant, outstanding colour. Has anyone any suggestions? BTW I'm in the UK so a choice easily obtainable in the UK would be helpful.

[Guernseytim]

Hi all, I confess I have been very boring in my choice of inks. I use Mont Blanc mystery black for all purposes. I would like to use a specific colour just for my signature. It has to be bulletproof and a vibrant, outstanding colour. Has anyone any suggestions? BTW I'm in the UK so a choice easily obtainable in the UK would be helpful.

Cultpens have a large selection to choose from!

 

I'm in the UK and get the goulet ink drop so I can sample lots of inks - it's not overly expensive to get 5 vials a month linked in with that month's theme.

[legitimate3]

I use all kinds of colors for class notes.

[Algester]

Black because sometimes you really need to stay classy when studying (puns?)... <_< else different non-punchy colors for notes so I always have a black pen with me

[The Journeyman]

Hi thar'

 

Thanks for that. I'll contact Cultpens re sampling different colours. ;-)

[amberleadavis]

 

...unless the deceased is a person I didn't like, then I write the sympathy note in any color I damned well please.

 

I'm still sort of figuring out how to respond to this... laughing seems wrong. The Deceased is already dead and hence not reading your note, so the note is to the Bereaved.

So, if you didn't like the Deceased and don't like the Bereaved does this mean you use something pink and happy?

[amberleadavis]

I use all kinds of colors for class notes.

 

I went and found my notes.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/Inked_Today/slides/2008-05-27%20Employment.jpg

[Pira]

I think I've finally figured out how to post images here, so finally an example on what I meant by using coloured ink(s) for drawing and other art; in this case J. Herbin’s Violette Pensée with a sprig of lavender:

 

 

Lavender by Pira U, on Flickr