PR Burgundy Mist

[JDlugosz]

 

Just what color is Private Reserve’s Burgundy Mist?

 

The files I present have calibrated correct values in the file, with an embedded ICC profile for Adobe RGB. You should be able to compare any of my review scans side-by-side to see the difference, because the exposure and adjustment is exactly the same in each ink scan. To aid color perception on your monitor, there is a thin white border to show the paper color (the paper is faintly blue in sunlight) and a gray matte. The matte is perfectly neutral, so judge the color relative to that.

 

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The color picker shows a Hue value of 316°, which puts it in the middle of the 5th hexant (300-360) of “Magenta-Red”. Other colors named Burgundy are also in this range, but even higher. I've not scanned other Burgundy fountain pen inks (hint: send samples!) but compared to other reported uses of the word Burgundy, this is a little more magenta and less red.

 

Looking at a correctly-calibrated display, the large field in the color picker fades to black more than half way down, is grayish to the left and hot magenta to the right, and the target circle is in a subtle band where the grayish reveals itself as dark wine. The eye perceives it as purple, not magenta. That's something I've begun to notice with interesting FP ink colors: The color is in a subtle zone with an interesting perception, not just some random color.

 

http://www.dlugosz.com/Hosted/InkScans/Private%20Reserve/Burgundy%20Mist/Sample-text.jpg

 

The Hero 257 pen nib is not particularly wet, but I'm not experienced enough to say just how wet or dry it is in the spectrum of things. Just that it's a cheap pen anyone can collect as a reference! But I had no trouble with flow, smudging, or feathering. On HP Prem. Laser 32# paper it did not smudge after counting to 10 and wiping with a finger. On Clairefontaine Triomphe it smudged very slightly after 10, and stopped doing so right at 20.

 

http://www.dlugosz.com/Hosted/InkScans/Private%20Reserve/Burgundy%20Mist/Sample-figure.jpg

 

http://www.dlugosz.com/Hosted/InkScans/Private%20Reserve/Burgundy%20Mist/feather.jpg

 

Previous discussions have commented on how this ink ages. Does it lose its color in the bottle or on the page? I noted that I obtained the ink sample and wrote the document in May 2008, but I don't know when the original bottle was bought or opened. I've started keeping track of this with all ink purchases, and encourage you to do the same.

 

Cross reference: 1, 2.

 

—John

 

 

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[simonrob]

That's interesting - the ink in my bottle looks much more like the first of your two cross-references, i.e., is a considerably warmer colour, with a degree of brownish red missing from yours, which is a much cooler, bluer colour. I wonder if this is a question of batch variation or something else. (I've experienced similar differences with a similar, if darker, ink: a colleague and I both have Noodler's Nightshade - hers has blue component entirely absent from mine, which has more red/brown in its make-up.)

 

Simon

[JDlugosz]

That's interesting - the ink in my bottle looks much more like the first of your two cross-references, i.e., is a considerably warmer colour, with a degree of brownish red missing from yours, which is a much cooler, bluer colour. I wonder if this is a question of batch variation or something else. (I've experienced similar differences with a similar, if darker, ink: a colleague and I both have Noodler's Nightshade - hers has blue component entirely absent from mine, which has more red/brown in its make-up.)

 

Simon

 

Send me a sample for a calibrated scan and we can check the Hue side-by-side.

 

--John

"The Calibrator"