Favorite Color Eco?

[taimdala]

9 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 I would take any, but shiny metallic would be ideal. Oh, and a tinted blue barrel would be cool, but the clear is pretty on its own.

 

I know other brands have beaten TWSBI to the punch on this, but I would ***love*** a TWSBI with ribbons of color swirled through the clear acrylic/resin barrel, and a color coordinated cap/piston knob. 

 

Nahvalur, Visconti, etc. all have models of pen that look like that, but I'm holding out for a TWSBI in this color format. 

 

And when they do this, I hope they offer it in blue. 

 

Then red, then green, then orange, then purple, then yellow, then brown, then black, then white... AND THEN add a shimmer-included version of each of them, for a total of 18 different pen releases.

 

Oh and did I mention offering them with something other than their standard silvertone trim? 

 

If we had all 18 offered in silvertone, we'd have to offer all 18 in goldtone or even rose gold.

 

That's ... Okay, lemme do the math... 

 

Swirl Silver series = 18 pens

Swirl Gold series = 18 pens

Swirl Rose Gold series = 18 pens

Swirl Bronze series = 18 pens

Swirl Onyx series = 18 pens

 

Okay, so that's ... 90 pens!

 

If they release 6 per year, it would take 15 years to release all of them. And to be honest, I doubt they'd make all 90 of these. They'd probably just do the 18 acrylic/resin color combos and just coordinate the metal trims to each color from the 4 metals they've offered so far.

 

This way it would only take 3 years to go through all 18 variations. 

 

Which of course they won't burn through all at once, because they'd want to offer more than just a swirl one right after the other.

 

Gosh, the possibilities for colors and trims is near endless, isn't it?

 

 

 

 

 

[Misfit]

There was a time where a TWSBI employee or more than that title would reply here. I hope he still looks in. He explained once, when I questioned pens with rose gold costing more, what was needed to coat with rose gold, that justified the price. 
 

TWSBI does answer emails. Maybe some of these lovely suggestions would be of use to them.  

[Misfit]

@taimdala I learned about goldstone et al from your suggestions. Thank you. And yes to mimicking any or all gemstones! TWSBI got started that way with the Serpentine Eco from the photos I’ve seen. 

[Doc Dan]

Someone should send this thread to TWSBI.

[Penguincollector]

  This thread has been really fun!

[taimdala]

On 10/20/2025 at 11:03 PM, Misfit said:

@taimdala I learned about goldstone et al from your suggestions. Thank you. And yes to mimicking any or all gemstones! TWSBI got started that way with the Serpentine Eco from the photos I’ve seen. 

 

You're welcome, Misfit! ☺️

 

I love sharing the wealth, as it were. 

 

Actually, unless I'm mistaken, the Serpentine was the *second* TWSBI to mimic a semiprecious stone. The *first* was Amazonite in 2024. 

 

I have both (shockers!) and I really love how the cheerful aqua blue of the Amazonite Eco contrasts against the moody gothic green of the Serpentine. 

 

So TWSBI had tackled blue and green. Can a red be close behind? 

 

Hmmmm.... What sort of red? 

 

Definitely a red jasper: dark red with white/cream and dark brown/dark grey veins, right? 

 

Ooooh, I would SO buy that!!!

[taimdala]

22 hours ago, Doc Dan said:

Someone should send this thread to TWSBI.

Oh man, I wish!!! 

 

I want that Bloodstone Eco! It's my birthstone, dang it! 😍😂🤪

[taimdala]

1 hour ago, Penguincollector said:

  This thread has been really fun!

It HAS!

 

Do you think TWSBI could be convinced to do a limited 4 Seasons theme?

 

For instance...

 

Winter:

Dark green swirled with white and a teeny bit of cerulean blue and even thinner threads of black, suggesting crystal blue sky at high altitude glimpsed through conifer branches on a snow-covered mountainside.

 

Spring:

Light blue swirled with cherry blossom pink and minute threads of white and/or crocus purple, suggesting warming skies with clouds and the pink/purple blossoms of early spring.

 

Summer:

White heavily swirled with cerulean blue along with threads of sunny yellow and grass green, suggesting backyard gatherings on the grass under puffy white clouds in a summer sky.

 

Autumn:

We have GOT to do orange swirled with rich maple leaf red and gold (metallic gold, maybe), with tiny threads of dark green and black--those threads hinting at the colors in the Winter pen.

 

And maybe it's gilding the lily, but if TWSBI could laser etch the Taiwanese character for the season on the nib...

 

Oh boy! THINK of the feeding frenzy at pre-order time!

 

I'd be fightin' right alongside with the rest of 'em! 😂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[taimdala]

9 minutes ago, taimdala said:

It HAS!

 

Do you think TWSBI could be convinced to do a limited 4 Seasons theme?

 

For instance...

 

Winter:

Dark green swirled with white and a teeny bit of cerulean blue and even thinner threads of black, suggesting crystal blue sky at high altitude glimpsed through conifer branches on a snow-covered mountainside.

 

Spring:

Light blue swirled with cherry blossom pink and minute threads of white and/or crocus purple, suggesting warming skies with clouds and the pink/purple blossoms of early spring.

 

Summer:

White heavily swirled with cerulean blue along with threads of sunny yellow and grass green, suggesting backyard gatherings on the grass under puffy white clouds in a summer sky.

 

Autumn:

We have GOT to do orange swirled with rich maple leaf red and gold (metallic gold, maybe), with tiny threads of dark green and black--those threads hinting at the colors in the Winter pen.

 

And maybe it's gilding the lily, but if TWSBI could laser etch the Taiwanese character for the season on the nib...

 

Oh boy! THINK of the feeding frenzy at pre-order time!

 

I'd be fightin' right alongside with the rest of 'em! 😂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have to admit, I'm kinda stumped on which metal trims would pair well with the 4 Seasons series. 

 

If we add the metallic ROY G BV, Brown, and Black trim I suggested upthread ...

 

Ooooh ... Think of the possibilities!

 

Metallic Purple or a Metallic Pink might go well with the Spring, though I think the Gold or Silver would be nice too. 

 

A Metallic Blue might go well on the Summer and a Metallic Brown or Bronze would contrast nicely with the Winter.

 

I'd want Bronze, Metallic Brown, or Onyx on the Autumn one, though. 

 

What do y'all think? 

 

Maybe we should start a new thread called FANTASY TWSBI LEAGUE? TWSBI FANTASY LEAGUE? 

 

Something like that ...?

[taimdala]

Thinking on it some more ...

 

TWSBI has already made pens with opaque but chatoyant barrels (the gorgeous green Aurora) and glittering gemstone chip barrels (the red Draco and the blue Kai)...but it occurs to me that these barrel colors and effects were achievable because they weren't injection molded plastic. 

 

Instead, these pens were **turned** on a lathe and made from blanks. 

 

Given the nature of a lathe's spin, the pens would have to be smooth and simple in design in order to make them at industrial speed and scale. So I doubt TWSBI could shape this sort of blank material into the ECO's (D580's) iconic facets and silhouette.

 

Although ... I am reminded of the facets in the Benu pen bodies and I wonder if they are injection molded. If so, wow! All those glittery inclusions haven't weakened the structural integrity of the body material. How do they do that?!

[Doc Dan]

I emailed the link to three different emails for TWSBI. 

[Penguincollector]

   I hope that at the very least, we get a a cobalt blue nib and trim from them. 

[Doc Dan]

43 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

   I hope that at the very least, we get a a cobalt blue nib and trim from them. 

Just Cobalt blue would be fine by me. 

[Misfit]

@Doc Dan Thank you for sharing our thoughts on Eco colors with TWSBI.