What Is Your Most Vibrant Ink For Work?

[Marky Mark]

Hi guys, I was wondering about vibrant or non traditional inks for use at work and if anyone has any favourite inks for this purpose?

 

I find it much easier to find my own work when looking back through a sea of ballpoint black and was interested to know if anyone else had similar experiences?

[takkun]

Anything written with a wide nib or a less-saturated ink (when it shades well, looks like watercolor) pretty much stands out from BP and RBs pretty well, I've found. And personally, I like using bright, saturated inks for any purpose except, oddly enough, note-taking for one particular lecture, where I end up using a fine nib and black ink.

 

Today though: Baystate Blue in a stub nib, and Fuyu-gaki in a wet medium. Both jump off the page. BSB even more so in the big nib. The closest I've seen to it is Pilot's gel ink, but you can't get the pen expressiveness.

[PDW]

Diamine Passion Red for marking, Diamine Ultra Green for annotating. And sometimes Akkerman # 26 Groenmarkt Smaragt for a subtle but noticeable difference from 'normal' colours.

[VivienR]

The most vibrant ink that I used to even sign official document is Diamine Majestic Purple, but usually I use the Imperial Purple.

[Davros]

I use whatever I want. Usually Diamine Marigold is the brightest ink.

[amberleadavis]

I love retinal searing inks and even use Cape Cod Cranberry for signatures on my letters.

 

Check out this thread for REALLY vibrant.... aka Retinal Searing colors.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/262287-retina-searing-inks-inks-so-vibrant-they-are-blinding/

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/Inklings/2013-Ink_558e.jpg

[gwyneddd]

Hi guys, I was wondering about vibrant or non traditional inks for use at work and if anyone has any favourite inks for this purpose?

 

I find it much easier to find my own work when looking back through a sea of ballpoint black and was interested to know if anyone else had similar experiences?

 

 

I'd say if you are trying to stay under the radar but enjoy color, Kon-Peki. A vivid blue but conservative blue nonetheless. I have a bottle of it on my desk at work.

[Arkanabar]

I work with health records. Per the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the number one health care payor in the US, ink used in the records must be black. I generally use Heart of Darkness.

Fortunately, not everything I write has to go into the record. For the rest, I can use whatever I want. None of my inks pops quite as much as Sheaffer Turquoise, and Waterman Purple is very pretty indeed.

[Chettiar]

PR Electric DC Blue when it needs to stand out.. otherwise I fall back to Lamy blue at office.. just enough shading to be interesting and very very conservative enough to be boring!

[PS104]

I love retinal searing inks and even use Cape Cod Cranberry for signatures on my letters.

 

Check out this thread for REALLY vibrant.... aka Retinal Searing colors.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/262287-retina-searing-inks-inks-so-vibrant-they-are-blinding/

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/Inklings/2013-Ink_558e.jpg

No mistaking you for Ms Blue Black

[RobbW]

Sailor YamaDori, Noodler's Midway Blue or Noodler's Navy. For markup, anything goes, mostly Baystate Blue or Caren d'Ache Saffron.

[amberleadavis]

Robb, I love your colors!

[amberleadavis]

No mistaking you for Ms Blue Black

 

 

What's sort of crazy, I keep a pen inked with Dromgoole's Blue Steel (a blue black) ink because it is my NO FUSS ink and it changed my ink-spectations.

[Joe in Seattle]

Before I retired I routinely used Parker Penman Emerald. People thought of it as mild eccentricity.

[prf5]

I work with health records. Per the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the number one health care payor in the US, ink used in the records must be black. I generally use Heart of Darkness.

 

Fortunately, not everything I write has to go into the record. For the rest, I can use whatever I want. None of my inks pops quite as much as Sheaffer Turquoise, and Waterman Purple is very pretty indeed.

 

As I understand it, CMS does not require black ink, although local agencies can impose stricter regulations. CMS requires handwritten entries to be in ink, not pencil, and be able to produce clear photocopies. The wild card is the quality of photocopying, which has improved so much that even vibrant colors might duplicate well. Using a color other than black is actually recommended for medical records when it's useful or important to distinguish an original from a copy.

[ScienceChick]

I can (and do) use whatever colors I want to use. Lucky me Today I have PE Topaz, PE Turmaline, JH Poussiere de Lune, PR Ebony Purple and KWZI #47 loaded up.

[alexander_k]

Diamine Orange and BSB. The former is for comments and headers and the latter for anything. It's blue so it raises no eyebrows.

[Pelikan_FP]

Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Budo is what I use daily to offset the pervasive black print/ink used in the office. It's not so vibrant but it is easily distinguishable.

[mirosc]

With my colleagues any color stands out :-) Most colleagues use blue/black, so brown, red, green, purple is always different.

 

Great is BSB with 1.1 italic or Parker Quink Red.

[Big Cheese]

For general notes: R&K Salix or Pilot Blue (Lamy Safari / All Star, F nib)

For signing documents: R&K Salix (Lamy Safari, F)

For contrast: R&K Alt Goldgrun (Lamy Safari, F)

 

I am looking forward to trying an incoming bottle of R&K Sepia, for general purpose - but signing

 

None of my colleagues use FPs, only blue BPs, sometime black

 

Regards,

 

Laurens