Purple Ink Recommendation

[southpaw]

Ive been googling and surfing and browsing and...,but to no avail Anyone know of a true purple ink that has good shading on most papers? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[lapis]

My favourite = DeA's Aubergine

[sciumbasci]

Can't go wrong with R&K Scabiosa

[thygreyt]

I have enjoyed 2 bottles of 50ml each of Montblanc Lavander Purple.

 

two old posts from my instagram

 

 

[Carrau]

My favourite = DeA's Aubergine

Can't go wrong with R&K Scabiosa

I like both of these, one rich and dark looking, the other with interesting shading.

[minddance]

Scabiosa is a class of its own. Paired with dry pens, it is very pale and not easily legible, in wet pens, it comes alive and shades on any paper.

[ENewton]

Another vote for Scabiosa. It will shade on anything.

[Hallel]

Diamine Imperial Purple, R & K Cassia, my personal all time favourite Sailor Jentle Nioi-sumire (sweet violet), should all be considered when you are talking purples.

 

J. herbin pousseire de lune is a gorgeous shader, in fact all J. herbin inks tend to be gorgeous shaders. Waterman Tender Purple and Monteblanc Lavender Purple both get good reviews but I haven’t tried them.

 

Noodlers Black Swan in Australian Roses was all the rage a few years back and an amazing shader to boot but there were some batch inconsistencies and I think the formula changed? Someone can back me up on that cause I’m not sure.

 

Private Reserve Tanzanite but I think PR shut down? Man, sorry for the vagueness. Lol. Lamy Dark lilac is a prize but I don’t think it’s available anymore. Definitely jump on it if you ever encounter it in the wild.

 

Monteverde Charoite is a new fav of mine and it’s got some sheen to it in the right paper if that’s your thing. Diamine Bilberry but it doesn’t much shade so much as it explodes off of the page in a dazzle of saturated colour. (I like it). I also love Diamine Eclipse but it’s so dark it’s practically black. A great winter ink though.

[Chrissy]

I find De Atramentis Aubergine very wet in most pens and prefer Montblanc Lavender Purple or Diamine Imperial Purple. Waterman Purple is also very good.

[KaB]

+1 for MB lavender

steer clear from diamine grape

[lgsoltek]

I'm not sure I know what a true purple looks like. Scabiosa is too grey for me to be called a true purple.

[Mew]

Sailor Shigure

Sailor Sankodo Nishikisan black purple

Sailor Maruzen Athena Murasaki (if you can find it)

Sailor Office Vender Date Murasaki (if you can find it)

Lamy dark lilac

[Torrilin]

For my sister the purple lover Poussiere de Lune is too dark in most nibs. She votes for Violette Penseé and Larmes de Cassis out of the Herbin purples. It needs to be really distinct from black for her to like it, because she’s also a black ink lover. I haven’t talked her into trying other purples since she prefers other pens to fountain pens.

 

The Herbin set definitely helps narrow down your taste in purple, since it’s got a classic one, a blue toned one and a dark one.

[ErrantSmudge]

DeAtrementis Aubergine is a nice, dark purple. But it is a very wet ink and it feathers on less-than-perfect paper.

 

I love the color of Rohrer & Klingner Cassia, but I had problems with bleedthrough/showthrough in one of my Japanese notebooks. Now that I've noticed this, I will try it with more kinds of paper.

 

As someone pointed out earlier, Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses does shade nicely, but there is a lot of variation in color between batches. If you get a bottle you like, then great.

[eharriett]

I have so many purples right now it isn't even funny. Here's some good ones:

 

Diamine Imperial Purple (my company's official color)

J. Herbin Violette Pensee

Private Reserve Tanzanite (one of my personal favorites)

Noodler's Purple Heart (my other personal favorite)

Sheaffer Skrip Purple - that's one of the truest flat purples, in my opinion.

[mulrich]

Another vote for Montblanc lavender purple. I haven't tried a lot of purples but this is the one that made it to my collection.

[gandalf11]

pèlikan edelstein amatista i love that rich purpule and a very nice shading

[TheDutchGuy]

I have enjoyed 2 bottles of 50ml each of Montblanc Lavander Purple.

^---Indeed! For me, MB Lavender Purple is a fascinating ink. On the one hand, it is a rich, deep, exquisite purple/violet. What sets it apart is that if you write a full page with it, it won't look overwhelming, gaudy or like a neon-sign. Instead, it will look classy. For me, it is the only non-black, non-blue ink that I can use for everyday writing and journaling.

Edited August 23, 2018 by TheDutchGuy

[inkstainedruth]

Oh where do I begin? (I LOVE purple inks).

I'm less enamored of Scabiosa (even though I tend to like iron gall inks) because it's very dry.

Other (IMO better) IG purples: KWZI IG Violet #3 (leans more red) and IG Gummiberry (more of a blue violet). Also rather like Platinum Classic Lavender Black (again, a red-leaning one, but a great shading ink).

I love De Atramentis Aubergine, but I don't find it to be much of a shader. A nice one that nobody has mentioned yet is Pelikan 4001 Violet, which shades quite nicely (much as I like the now unavailable Edelstein Amethyst and Lamy Dark Lilac). For a true middle of the spectrum purple (which doesn't lean EITHER red or purple), have a look at Noodler's North African Violet (although I don't remember if it shades much).

MB Lavender Purple is nice (but more expensive than some) -- it's one of the few MB inks I liked well enough to want a full bottle of, but it doesn't see a lot of use.

Another vote for Noodler's Purple Heart, which is well behaved but a little more of a brownish purple (don't be afraid of Noodler's inks).

I also want to do a quick shout out for a couple of more lavender toned inks that don't get a lot of mention: Modern Skrip Purple (which was the first ink that worked well for me in a Sheaffer Snorkel with an EF nib -- not even vintage Skrip Peacock did that ); and if you can get your hands on vintage Quink Permanent Violet do so. And if you don't like it, I'd be more than happy to take it off your hands.....

I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting, like some of the Robert Oster inks.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[drv1913]

My three favorites are Levenger Amethyst, J Herbin Poussiere de Lune, and Noodler's Purple.