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Comparison Of 4 Robert Oster Signature Blues

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Being a person who is obsessed with blues I have a tendency to purchase too many that are basically the same color. To make matters worse, I've found that if you buy from multiple online vendors, they all represent their pictures differently. So where this left me was owning 4 really awesome Robert Oster Blues that were nearly identical. I do have to say that my favorite of the group is the shading machine known as Blue Sea.

 

You can see the results of my tests below. All of the blues are awesome and the more I tested them the more I realized that they are, in fact, just a little bit different from each other. I hope this helps someone else who might share my affliction with blues and total inability to tell them apart using a computer swab. Thanks for looking.

 

 

 

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Blue sea takes it! Useful comparison, Jeff!

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I share your Robert Oster Blue disease and have 3 out of these 4 😁. Great to see where Bondi Blue fits in there.

 

Blue Sea is gorgeous and my fav blue ink full stop. The flow and shading are every bit as good as you say.

 

I was surprised how close Blue Water Ice was when I got it the other week, but it's quickly turning into another beloved blue. It hits my "blue leaning turquoise I can actually read" spot perfectly.

 

Fire & Ice is the most luminous teal ink I've seen. Have never got the buckets of sheen others seem to but that's fine by me. It would be a shame to bury such a pretty colour.

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Blue Sea would definitely be my choice!

 

Thanks much for the comparison.

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Excellent comparison. I love comparisons and I find this one to be very informative. Also, thanks for helping me make my own choice. I like Blue Sea the most -- not because it has the best sheen or is the darkest but just because its seems to me (too) to be the "bluest" of the four.

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I like Blue Sea the most because its seems to me (too) to be the "bluest" of the four.

 

I, on the other hand, find that Bondi Blue is the bluest of the four. Monitors...

 

I must say, though, that I find all of them too green for me. :(

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Thank you! I love comparisons.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Anybody know if any of these are close to MB Tolstoy LE?

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