Originally Posted by
AzJon
I think a lot of ink makers did what product makers do and over-saturated the market (pun fully intended). I remember Apache Sunset, Emerald of Chivor, and Diamine Majestic Blue being the inks for shading, shimmer, and sheen, respectively. The Diamine went bonkers with shimmer inks, and Organic Studios went off the deep end with sheen. Poor shading got left a little bit behind, relatively, but we had Diamine Autumn Oak and KWZ Honey as the up and coming shaders after that.
The unique nature of various famous "firsts" sort of wore off for me with very few truly special inks out there anymore. My top inks, sadly, will always fall into the limited editions: Pelikan Amber, Lamy Dark Lilac, and Montblanc Dandy Turquoise. I'm really not sure the last ink I was truly excited for and have relegated my ink use to Pelikan Blue-Black or Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite (another blue-black) with the occasional Robert Ostert Caffe Crema thrown in for fun.