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20 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Interesting.  On my screen it looks more like a sepia brown ink than a grey one.  (The only one that really looks grey is Kira-same... (De Atramentis Cement looks greyin the writing sample but greenish grey in the swab; Fog looks blue grey or blue black; and the Birmingham ink like a murky green).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Yes, I don't even convince myself on this one, but, if you are writing with any one of them on it's own, the first impression is more grey than hue, it's mostly when you bring them into relationship that the distinctions start to emerge.

I once panicked that my bottle of Rusty Anchor was spoiled as when I wrote with it on a page that already featured pink, it just looked brown. Context is important!

Shirakashi is pushing it I know, and the fact this was written on cream paper surely accentuates the brown, but I have several experiences where I look back at a passage and the impression is grey, maybe blue-grey in the lighter strokes and more brown green where stronger. This morning I was writing on cheaper paper, and it looked much closer to Cement! Serves me right!

I posted here because I find there's a hard, mineral looking quality to many greys that I don't enjoy in plain writing, but this, while skirting the edges of greyness, has a much softer, friendlier appearance.

Sepia is a good word. It's clearly not Taupe, but isn't it interesting how we delimit such things?

The cook was recently gifted some squid ink as part of a culinary package, but the scribe is pretty keen to give it a try too!

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Does anyone have a good writing sample of Diamine Silver Fox? I have only seen swabs, and they don't always give a good representation of what an ink looks like.

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i have this ink but not a good scanner... does this help?  I like it because it's a pure grey without other colors like red, blue, or brown

 

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This was spliced together as a byproduct of something else I was doing:

 

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(drawn on Rhodia DotPad 80g/m² 5mm dot grid paper, and colour corrected in GIMP against reference greyscale targets that were scanned alongside the original sheets)

 

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1 hour ago, A Smug Dill said:

This was spliced together as a byproduct of something else I was doing:

 

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(drawn on Rhodia DotPad 80g/m² 5mm dot grid paper, and colour corrected in GIMP against reference greyscale targets that were scanned alongside the original sheets)

 

 

WOW that is great!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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11 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

This was spliced together as a byproduct of something else I was doing:

 

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(drawn on Rhodia DotPad 80g/m² 5mm dot grid paper, and colour corrected in GIMP against reference greyscale targets that were scanned alongside the original sheets)

 

Love this!

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Now that is some serious attention to detail. Nice work!

"O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." Psalm 118:29

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Looking good!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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