Best Cheap Performer In Muted Colors?

[ThegreatandpowerfullR]

What is an ink that is a muted grey, red/red-black, blue/blue-black, or any strange/cool/sheening/shading ink, while with at least with a modicum of formality that will work well on school-grade paper? I really want a grey that looks like pencil lead but is still readable, but that is not a necessity. My current choices are diamine graphite and monteverde blue-black, but I have never had either so opinions of those inks would be very helpful.

[Icywolfe]

KTC. It works the Best in my paper that can be used as toilet paper.

[risingsun]

Diamine Grey can easily pass for pencil. It is one of my writer/teacher wife's favorite inks. Waterman Blue-Black is one of my all time favorite understated and extremely well-behaved inks. Can't recommend another ink any more that it, actually.

[Sandy1]

Hi,

 

Ah, 'muted grey' can only be Sheaffer Skrip Blue-Black. At the risk of offending my dear readers, that is one seriously flat ink, and was relegated to Mixing Corral limbo, along with Diamine Indigo.

 

For interesting shading inks, consider Rohrer & Klingner's Salix & Scabiosa. As R&K FP inks, with the exception of Sepia, can be safely intermingled some rather interesting blends might be conjured from their array. e.g. Scabiosa + Alt Bordeaux

 

The SSBlBk, DIn, Salix & Scabiosa should perform very well on 'lowest bidder' papers.

 

Bye,

S1

[Viseguy]

I think of Noodler's Lexington Gray as my liquid pencil. Performs well, and is bulletproof.

[Christi0469]

I quite like Diamine Graphite.

[ThegreatandpowerfullR]

I have samples of r and k sepia and salix, and like them both. The jury is still out on Monteverde blue black.