EFNIR: Pilot Mixable Colour Orange

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Pilot Mixable Colour Orange

This is review #259 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:


Post-recording notes: This is a very bright, red-leaning orange. Cleaning was simple but did require some extra flushes. The ink also got behind the piston of my converter, but I don't think that's the ink's fault, I think the converter just needed re-greasing. The microscope slide was boring - some spikes like many other inks had, some pink here and there, but mostly flat orange.

NOTE: The cartridge appears to have suffered from evaporation (all the unused ones have), so I added some distilled water to top it off before inking the pen. This may skew the color, flow, and lubrication results, but I don't believe the impact will be significant.

Zoomed in photo (I think the color needs to be a little more red and a little less neon, but it's not too far off, and I think this is the most accurate.)


Screenshot (The text is too dark. (Attempts to lighten it left it washed out rather than bright, so I left it too dark.))


Scan of Completed Review (The scanner rendered this ink red, without orange. I color-corrected as best I could. It's not quite right, but gives the right idea (on one monitor)... What looks like shading in the image does not reflect real life. I think maybe the ink was still wet and shiny when I scanned it.)


Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Both images seem a bit too neon to me.)


Line width (The "I" in "Ink:". Magnification is 100x. The grid is 100x100µm. The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each. The line width for this ink is roughly 314µm. With 259 inks measured, the average line width is 295µm.)


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[mizgeorge]

Nooo! It's not Tuesday yet. In my head it's still last week. Thank you (I think) for sorting out my time challenges, and, of course, for another fab review!

I've been curious about this line for some time - I like the idea of the mixability, and I'm sure I have some of the cartridges that came with Parallel pens, but I've never really delved into the whole thing.

I can't say this one makes me want to either! It's just a bit too unsubtle for me (and I love orange inks), and I'm not sure that it wouldn't end up being a bit murky when mixed with just about anything except its direct neighbours in the colour spectrum, though perhaps this is the idea?

I'm so pleased that our villain has turned out to be just that! Though of course I'm now worried for our heroic adventurers as they go into battle. I hope Makhabesh has something special left in his pack...

I'm going to make a concerted effort to be ready for next week.

[Yazeh]

Thank you for another excellent review

Like @mizgoerge, I'm glad it's not the high wizard. Good job at misleading your reader in the wrong direction
As for the ink you said it all. Thanks for sacrificing your time to write the climax with a non deserving ink

Thanks for making Tuesdays, so bright and joyful

[LizEF]

Nooo! It's not Tuesday yet. In my head it's still last week. Thank you (I think) for sorting out my time challenges, and, of course, for another fab review

Sorry, time has left without you - something about the sun and appointments to keep - I wasn't paying close attention. You're very welcome, and thank you!

I've been curious about this line for some time - I like the idea of the mixability, and I'm sure I have some of the cartridges that came with Parallel pens, but I've never really delved into the whole thing.

It's very cool to watch Parallel artists (they seem like artists to me) touch the nibs of two such pens, each inked with a different color, and see the gradient that comes of it. But I don't have the patience to learn their skill.

I can't say this one makes me want to either! It's just a bit too unsubtle for me (and I love orange inks), and I'm not sure that it wouldn't end up being a bit murky when mixed with just about anything except its direct neighbours in the colour spectrum, though perhaps this is the idea?

While I like my blues stormy and my greens murky, it turns out I really like bold, in-your-face oranges. I blame a certain FPNer who sent me a sample of Akkerman Oranje Boven - loved it in my EF TWSBI Eco! Hooked me for sure. (He's also the one who got me into murky greens, with MB Jonathan Swift Seaweed Green.) But I enjoy nice burnt-orange inks, too.

I'm so pleased that our villain has turned out to be just that! Though of course I'm now worried for our heroic adventurers as they go into battle. I hope Makhabesh has something special left in his pack...

I'm going to make a concerted effort to be ready for next week.

Don't worry, if Tuesday leaves you behind again, we'll still be here when you catch up - unless someone deletes the internet...

[LizEF]

Thank you for another excellent review

You're very welcome! And thank you!

Like @mizgoerge, I'm glad it's not the high wizard. Good job at misleading your reader in the wrong direction

As for the ink you said it all. Thanks for sacrificing your time to write the climax with a non deserving ink

Happy to do it! (I'm taking your advice and mixing in some of the unvotedfor inks. In no small part because they're starting to evaporate out of the cartridges!)

Thanks for making Tuesdays, so bright and joyful

You're most welcome!

[Sailor Kenshin]

First thing I thought when I saw this: 'It's red!' Then I saw your description. 🤣

Chalk me up as a lover of orange inks, but shading ones. (And I am now on Week Two of cleaning an orange ink from a Lamy Nexx.) So this Platinum orange may not be for me. But I still love the reviews and the story. I was just wondering what became of Oily Sorcery!

This was one of 'those' days, so many thanks, Liz, for making Tuesdays, even mental ones, fun.

[LizEF]

First thing I thought when I saw this: 'It's red!' Then I saw your description. 🤣

Chalk me up as a lover of orange inks, but shading ones. (And I am now on Week Two of cleaning an orange ink from a Lamy Nexx.) So this Platinum orange may not be for me.

There's always Akkerman Oranje Boven. And if you like burnt orange, I have a torturous treat for you in the review I'm recording today (already spoiled in the doodle I did for InesF's thread over on FPN) - gorgeous shading, but unobtainium ink...

But I still love the reviews and the story. I was just wondering what became of Oily Sorcery!

Thank you!

This was one of 'those' days, so many thanks, Liz, for making Tuesdays, even mental ones, fun.

You are very welcome! Hope the day improves as it progresses!

[Lithium466]

While I like my blues stormy and my greens murky, it turns out I really like bold, in-your-face oranges. I blame a certain FPNer who sent me a sample of Akkerman Oranje Boven - loved it in my EF TWSBI Eco! Hooked me for sure. (He's also the one who got me into murky greens, with MB Jonathan Swift Seaweed Green.) But I enjoy nice burnt-orange inks, too.

Oh! Did you compare the Akkerman to the Diamine orange?
I'm looking for an excuse to buy the Akkerman but I think it's just like the Diamine.

[LizEF]

Oh! Did you compare the Akkerman to the Diamine orange?
I'm looking for an excuse to buy the Akkerman but I think it's just like the Diamine.

I don't have any ordinary Diamine Oranges. I compared it to Peach Haze, but it's not close. Oranje Boven is shown at the start of the video - it's much more orange than Mixable Colour (which looks very red in the video). In my experience, Mike Matteson's color is spot on, and he has Oranje Boven and Diamine Orange together: http://www.inkdependence.com/2016/02...nje-boven.html - FWIW.

[Chrissy]

While I like my blues stormy and my greens murky, it turns out I really like bold, in-your-face oranges. I blame a certain FPNer who sent me a sample of Akkerman Oranje Boven - loved it in my EF TWSBI Eco! Hooked me for sure. (He's also the one who got me into murky greens, with MB Jonathan Swift Seaweed Green.) But I enjoy nice burnt-orange inks, too.

Oh! Did you compare the Akkerman to the Diamine orange?
I'm looking for an excuse to buy the Akkerman but I think it's just like the Diamine.

You're correct. It is the same ink but in a different bottle. Your choice of bottle is really the factor.

[Lithium466]

I don't have any ordinary Diamine Oranges. I compared it to Peach Haze, but it's not close. Oranje Boven is shown at the start of the video - it's much more orange than Mixable Colour (which looks very red in the video). In my experience, Mike Matteson's color is spot on, and he has Oranje Boven and Diamine Orange together: http://www.inkdependence.com/2016/02...nje-boven.html - FWIW.

Darn it, I was sure I had included some
Also thank you for the review. Not so convinced by these Pilot mixable inks, but then a variety pack would be quite cheap

You're correct. It is the same ink but in a different bottle. Your choice of bottle is really the factor.

If only the Akkerman weren't so hard to get where I live
I thought maybe Oranje Boven was between Diamine Orange and Diamine Pumpkin. Two nice inks.

[LizEF]

Darn it, I was sure I had included some

You included Blaze Orange and Pumpkin.

Also thank you for the review. Not so convinced by these Pilot mixable inks, but then a variety pack would be quite cheap

You're very welcome! If you don't mind going to the bother of diluting them sufficient to get good dry times, then I can't think of any reason not to use them. And yes, the variety pack includes 12 unique colors, and makes for an inexpensive way to try them out.

If only the Akkerman weren't so hard to get where I live
I thought maybe Oranje Boven was between Diamine Orange and Diamine Pumpkin. Two nice inks.

I wanted an Akkerman bottle so badly that I found the color I liked best from what Anderson Pens carried (I don't think they carry these inks any more, or not many), and bought the bottle untested / sampled. I got lucky beyond my wildest dreams - the ink is now in my top two: Akkerman #09 Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indigo - seriously underrated blue-grey/black ink - shades gorgeously from my Pilot VP F nib, which is where I mostly use it. Looks best from a wet nib, IMO. Hope someone up your way gets clever and starts stocking Akkerman!

[Sailor Kenshin]

I am familiar with bottle longings. Want Akkerman!

And apologies for having scanned the thread title as MISERABLE Orange…. 😵

[LizEF]

I am familiar with bottle longings. Want Akkerman!

Everyone should have at least one Akkerman bottle, if only for the novelty.

And apologies for having scanned the thread title as MISERABLE Orange…. 😵