The quest for the perfect blue ink

[Jjanek73]

21 hours ago, Mercian said:

Pictures, sir!
We demand to see pictures! 😉

 

Please?

 

Slàinte,
M.

Tried to make a sample, upper one  is Inkebara Evening blue, lower one Sea blue. Hard work with WB, not sure how it will look here. And must admit Evening blue is near to teal 😃

[Jjanek73]

Just now, Jjanek73 said:

Tried to make a sample, upper one  is Inkebara Evening blue, lower one Sea blue. Hard work with WB, not sure how it will look here. And must admit Evening blue is near to teal 😃

 

And my hand-writing is nothing to write home about... 😁

[Mercian]

@Jjanek73 thank you!

For the links you posted earlier, and for the picture that you just shared 😊

 

I am very attracted to the ‘Sea Blue’ in particular, but all three inks are pretty.

 

Also, your handwriting is nicer - and more-legible - than mine usually is!
😁

[Bo Bo Olson]

All I can afford, is to hire retired English teachers to read my writing.

[RJS]

Diamine Asa blue is my favourite blue currently- it is beautiful and interesting, especially with a broader nib. I usually prefer fine lines, but this ink is good enough to alter that view.

 

My workhorse blues are Monteverde Horizon Blue and Waterman Serenity Blue. A pity that none of the three are water resistant.

[Penguincollector]

On 3/22/2024 at 9:49 AM, Jjanek73 said:

 

And my hand-writing is nothing to write home about... 😁

 I think it’s velmi pěkná.

[Jjanek73]

On 3/23/2024 at 7:45 PM, Penguincollector said:

 I think it’s velmi pěkná.

👍 Thanks a lot! But take into account it is the best I can do. 😁

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, Jjanek73 said:

👍 Thanks a lot! But take into account it is the best I can do. 😁

  You’re welcome! My best writing is miles better than my everyday penguin scratch, that’s probably true for many people. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

When I came back to fountain pens after 40 years in the Ball Point desert, I could no longer read my print.

Since then my Chicken Scratch has become Rooster Scratch, which can be read by most retired English Teachers.

New hatched English teachers cant read cursive, much less cursive Cuneiform.

[txomsy]

I do find that my writing is more awful the "colder" my hand is, when I start writing, and that as I keep on, it tends to "stabilize".

 

Maybe a wrong reason, but I've taken to use BSB lately for my writing practice sessions (I still try to improve), mainly because it is so staining: that forces me to be more careful! And anyways, BSB has a such cool blue color... Not the perfect blue ink, I concede, but still... its shearing blue also helps me pay more attention to and notice "wrong" details.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I just inked an old MB 14....nothing else..14, a well balanced medium-long pen; thicker girth a bit more than a 400NN, with a real nice narrow EF...may not be Japanese EF but is narrow enough for me.

I put PE Topas, a favorite of mine,. in it because it supposedly has a bit to help lubrication. In EF it is good. I didn't think of the wetter Kon-Piki, and think Asa Gao as a bad buy.

 

I came here looking for the major mistake I made. I should have watered the pen, and let it sit for 20 minutes and wrote for a few days with a grand an vibrant blue ink; that I wasted in my bathroom sink.

I came here looking for it...still am.

 

I think it could have been that discontinued MB blue ink that was raved about, by those disappointed by the new MB blue. (I missed that in I'd just discovered colored inks...so blue didn't get a ticket, much less a back seat.)

 

Visconti appears to be a bit too dark...not as lively as I remembered reading about.

 

Noodler's Azure , is something I have wanted for ages, and it is now cheap enough to buy in Europe..for no more than Visconti blue...and the Azure shades....

Unfortunately, neither of those two  did Sandy1 care much for.