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Diamine Amazing Amethyst is my favorite. Goes on dark and then dries to a very nice purple hue.

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I'm not sure about how well it flushes yet, but I'm getting really fond of KWZI Grey Plum. It's so dark it could pass for black, so it's very professional looking.

There is of course Noodler's Kung Te Cheng (but my bottle is more of an indigo blue with purple undertones. It's super permanent, but not the best behaving ink on the planet.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

My bottle of Shigure also looks more indigo blue than purple, at least in a fine point pen.

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I'm about ready to give up on purples. Will take a last stab with Diamine Majestic Purple and if that doesn't work out, I'll just order KWZ Grey Plum and have done with it.

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"Your Thoughts on Purple" - I'm sorry, but every time I see something like this I immediately think of a song when I was a teenager by Sheb Wooley: "The Purple People Eater."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL1ZH0Ke92A

 

I said I was sorry.

 

-David (Estie).

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The performance of Lamy Dark Lilac is quite similar to most Sailor inks. I definitely think you should give one of your bottles a try, it's a really nice ink.

Yep, will do. I also bought L'amant, so I'll try to use that a bit sparingly. Thanks. :)

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I'll give another vote for Diamine Imperial Purple. My favorite purple until Lamy Dark Lilac came along. Lamy's ink is a shade or two darker but now I have two inks that I like equally. So if you can't get the Lamy, definitely get the Diamine, it's a beautiful purple and you can't go wrong with it. If you can get both, do so and rotate between the two. That's what I have been doing because I can't pick one over the other.

 

Lamy Dark Lilac is an amazing ink, its really beautiful. Currently, I using Sannomiya Panse from Sailor Kobe line. It pushed down Imperial Purple from the throne. Maybe I should get an another bottle of Dark Lilac just in case, till its available....

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"Your Thoughts on Purple" - I'm sorry, but every time I see something like this I immediately think of a song when I was a teenager by Sheb Wooley: "The Purple People Eater."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL1ZH0Ke92A

 

I said I was sorry.

 

-David (Estie).

Some friends of mine when I was a kid had a big old juke box with horns. Purple People Eater was one of the songs they had loaded in the box. This was probably late 60's or so.

Brad

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I just loaded Akkerman Voorhout VIolet into a black Esterbrook J with 9550 nib

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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I just loaded Akkerman Voorhout VIolet into a black Esterbrook J with 9550 nib

Ahhhh . . . now that might just be a great combination!

 

Sheb Wooley had The Purple People Eater at number one on the billboard chart in 1958 and it just seemed to get air time every few years for a while. Not so much anymore, but I don't know why.

 

-David (Estie).

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A backward poet writes inverse. -Anon.

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"Your Thoughts on Purple" - I'm sorry, but every time I see something like this I immediately think of a song when I was a teenager by Sheb Wooley: "The Purple People Eater."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL1ZH0Ke92A

 

I said I was sorry.

 

-David (Estie).

Yes - but the Vikings are now 5-0.

Tom

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Ahhhh . . . now that might just be a great combination!

 

Sheb Wooley had The Purple People Eater at number one on the billboard chart in 1958 and it just seemed to get air time every few years for a while. Not so much anymore, but I don't know why.

 

-David (Estie).

It is actually.

 

The horns on the juke reminded me of the horns on the Minnesota Vikings helmets. They were Norwegian heritage and Vikings fans.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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Edelstein Amethyst has been a favorite of mine since I tried a sample of it. I love the shading it has. It's also a dark enough color that it could possibly be used at work. I use it for class notes. Dark lilac, as other people have mentioned, is also very nice, but nearly impossible to get ahold of. I only have a few cartridges...

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Thank you all for your advice. Now I have purple people eater stuck in my head! No thanks for that. :P My favorite purples (Edelstein Amethyst and Dark Lilac are both hard to come by, so I won't be pursuing.)

Between MB Lavender and Diamine Imperial Purple, which is darker?

 

I really do like Shigure, and it seems to be highly recommended from everyone. Is Shigure so dark as to be indistinguishable from black? (Especially in a fine or medium nib?)

I enjoyed PR Ebony Purple, but to my eyes, the ink was too black and the purple too subtle.

 

As of now, you guys have helped tip the scales towards MB Lavender with Shigure as a strong possibility.

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I use both Lavender Purple and Shigure. They are very different in that Lavender Purple leans toward red, and Shigure leans toward blue.

 

I have not used Shigure in a medium nib, but in the fine point pen in which I've used it, it appears to be not black, but a very dark blue. I have not yet found a pen in which Shigure is noticeably purple; if it is possible for a purple to be "too subtle" for you, I suggest that you start with a sample rather than a bottle of Shigure.

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How well I remember the "One eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater!" I think it came out around the same time as "The Witch Doctor."

 

I am a straight male who fell victim to the myth that purple is for women and gays many years ago and avoided it. Recently, I have reacquainted myself with several purples, but I'll reserve judgment for a favorite - or several - until I write a few more letters. I like purples - some of them.

 

Still don't care to do pinks - ;)

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I'm trying to branch out from blue blacks and have tried 3 dark purple inks - Diamine Eclipse, Private Reserve Ebony Purple, and Sailor Shigure. All of them are very dark purple - I think I found the PR to be the blackest. For me, writing with an Esterbrook 2550, Shigure is very dark but not black on Tomoe River paper. In a Moleskine it's more obviously not quite black. Eclipse seems slightly more black than Shigure on Tomoe River paper.

 

Hope that helps!

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This is a fairly light purple, and varies in saturation with flow and paper. I like it for occasional use.

 

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Retired, twice. Time to do more things, writing being one.

 

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I just loaded Akkerman Voorhout VIolet into a black Esterbrook J with 9550 nib

+1 for Akkerman Voorhout Violet. One of my favorite colors!

So, what's your point?

(Mine is a flexible F.)

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I've recently fallen in love with KWZ Iron Gall Violet #2. It darkens to a deep violet and preforms well on every paper I've tried including binder paper and generic index cards.

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I've recently fallen in love with KWZ Iron Gall Violet #2. It darkens to a deep violet and preforms well on every paper I've tried including binder paper and generic index cards.

 

I haven't tried that one, but I LOVE IG Violet #3.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

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