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Thanks for the review. Most blue black inks strike me as being more of a gray black, but this color is a very blue-ish blue black. A very professional and office-friendly color. I'm going to buy a bottle.

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Thanks for the review. Most blue black inks strike me as being more of a gray black, but this color is a very blue-ish blue black. A very professional and office-friendly color. I'm going to buy a bottle.

 

My pleasure, glad you like the color!

 

A solid new release. I wish Diamine could come up with more of these solid new colours instead of more and more of the bling bling line.

 

 

Agreed!

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I thought I remembered this ink being more purple!?

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If they made this ink at least water resistant would be a must to have, but I'd like to test in a small size bottle.

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Thanks for this nice review and characterization. I also like a lot of the comments of others on it. I'll have to get it for sure... in a nutshell, a solid mix of a dark, saturated blue and a blue-black....

 

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I finally was able to get a bottle of Oxford Blue yesterday evening. Every time Birmingham Pens got a Diamine shipment in, that color would sell out IMMEDIATELY! I finally had Nick, the guy working in the store, to save me a bottle, and stopped in last night on the way to a SCN meeting.

Thanks for the review. I really like this ink a lot (for those who haven't tried it yet, it's similar to Diamine Denim for the base color, but sheens red).

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Diamine's Regency Blue is very similar to their Oxford Blue. It is a shade or two darker perhaps.

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Diamine and blue - who can resist the combination? Only this time I'll try to be reasonable: I'll first use up ten of the fifteen blue inks I've amassed.

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I just got a bottle of this ink yesterday, at last! thanks for your review and all the comments, too.

"Life would split asunder without letters." Virginia Woolf

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In my experience Regency Blue looks very purple black. Oxford Blue is much bluer.

 

You are probably right about it being more purple than blue.

 

Did I neglect to mention that I am red/green colour blind? Being red/green colour blind means those of us who are might not see the red in purple and 'see' blue instead. Similarly, we tend to have trouble with other secondary and tertiary colours that incorporate red or green hews.

 

 

 

A true story: Whilst at school I had a job working at a library. This was back in the day of white shirts and ties. The head librarian for whom I worked was also red/green colour blind. Each day, when we came in, the kind lady who was the assistant librarian did a clothing check and instantly had us trade ties since we dressed like a pair of clowns.

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A solid new release. I wish Diamine could come up with more of these solid new colours instead of more and more of the bling bling line.

I could not agree more.

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