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The one red that stands out from the many that I have is Kobe #20 Motomachi Rouge.

Very interesting color..... the samples I've seen on-line looks like a strongly saturated Coral color... true? is that how it looks in person?

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I too was inclined to recommend Diamine Oxblood, the most excellent dark red there is, but it is brown-leaning; Matador might be more up your alley.

 

 

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Diamine Wild Strawberry might work for you.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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well... decision made... I just picked up a bottle of Iroshizuku fuyu-gaki. In the end it was between that and Kobe #20... Thanks everyone...

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Vintage Sheaffer Skrip Red is a nice pure red, or as I've occasionally nicknamed it, Nightmare Fuel because I had a teacher who used to extensively correct my essays with it.

 

I just bought a bottle of MB Corn Poppy Red to try. Looks like a good bright red.

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I was going to suggest Monteverde Valentine.....

but A) OP had made a decision already

B) I'm rather overwhelmed by the sheer number of (widely different) reds that have been suggested already.

C) I can't even really put my finger on (a finer analaysis of) why I like Valentine over many others.

 

Concluding, It must be so, red is a difficult to perfect and strongly polarizing color (i.e. a rather personal matter).

For instance, I -like everyone and their dog- use Scheaffer Skrip Red to grade papers with. It performs well in that regard, but I would never say I love how it looks; all I can say is that it's not too jarring and not too light.

Likewise I had thought that Antietam would hit the spot for me, strong orange undertones, some brown too. Should have colored me intrigued, but it did not.

Diamine Ancient Copper is rather similar to Antietam (tiny bit darker, tiny bit browner), I like it a bit better, but can already see getting bored of it soon enough.

I love Noodler's Dragon's Napalm, but it is the most jarring color in the world (really!), so one can hardly love it, in earnest, over a whole page or 2, or for more than a few weeks at a time.

 

And then the problem is: how am I even ever to use up a whole bottle of e.g. Diamine Coral, or Wild Strawberry?

 

2nd conclusion, looking at the posted exhaustive list

... I probably need to pick up something new, too.... There are just so many nice ones. It's hella infuriating, is what this is, you feel me?

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