Color fondness

[Spideysgirl]

When you look at your ink collection do you notice that you have a fondness for a particular color? Do you have different shades of that color?

I have a lot of greens and many shades of green.

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[SIR]

I have fewest in shades of blue, but i do like blue too!

[migo984]

I have a virtual rainbow, with maybe a slight predominance towards blues.

[naimitsu]

I definitely have an over abundance of blues... and followed closely by purple.
I tend to use blue the most, but mainly because there are so many variations that I can use nothing but blue and still have a well organized sheet of notes. In fact, I usually have at least 3 variations of blue inked: blue-black, deep blue, and bright blue/teal.

[ambimom]

When I was in college, it was black. After college for the next 50 years it was blue (Montblanc; Pelikan; Parker Quink, and Chesterfield Sapphire, my present favorite). Now that I'm retired, I'm kind of partial to Diamine Green-Black. On occasion when the spirit moves me, I'll fill up with Chesterfield Antique Copper, or Sapphire, and maybe Akkermann Dou's emerald groen, but I do love that Diamine Green Black....and I, too am a green person.

[Lady Onogaro]

Oh, yeah. Clearly purple and magentas and pinks. But green's a favorite (greenish brown), too.

[Wile E Coyote]

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[Robert]

Teals to deep blues to royal blues to blue-blacks - I've got plenty in that range. (Got a few "wimpy" blues, too, but never use them.)

[Scooby921]

My ink cabinet has more blue than anything else, though my favorite color is green. I very much enjoy green inks, but I'm too particular about what color/shade of green it needs to be. I'm less particular about blues. With blue I like everything from a light turquoise to dark blue-black and blue-green.

[Sailor Kenshin]

When you look at your ink collection do you notice that you have a fondness for a particular color? Do you have different shades of that color?

I have a lot of greens and many shades of green.

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But definitely. Blue-black, blue, and teal dominates. Then brown and green are neck and neck. A few red/pinks and grays. The color I have the lest of: poiple, though I've gotten some nice ones from MI.

[fountainpagan]

Definitively Browns and deep Reds. I also like Blue-greens.

[fountainpenkid]

Greens and blues are a bit overrepresented in my collection, but in general--with the exception of black--I have a pretty wide range--oranges, purples, browns, reds etc. Use is a different story though--I used my orange and purple inks more than I do my blues, quite often.

[Hawk]

I started with blues. Moved to purples. Back to blues. Next to browns. Now I use some of each color depending on what trips my trigger. In those three colors I have multiple variations and brands to choose. Black is in there somewhere. No greens except for Pelikan Green, a neat color. No reds, I don’t correct tests.

[VertOlive]

Greens. From the Spring-like Diamine "Meadow" to the sinister Papier Plume "Midnight Bayou".

[BayesianPrior]

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Looks like greens and blues, but I think my favourites are brown! Strange!

[amk]

Lots of colour! I tend to like quite saturated zingy colours - lots of pinks, purples, orange, bright blues, some greens. Rather fewer reds. One black.

[KrazyIvan]

Before I started buying ink I knew blue would be a favorite color. Blues that lean green surprised me.

[Quantum Sailor]

I tend to lean towards blue-black inks or just plain black. I like some gray inks but the darker ones.

[Wuddus]

I don't particularly favour a colour, and while I don't have a lot of inks I think I have a decent spectrum, but I do categorise my inks and work to "themes".

My pocket pen has what I would call conservative colours. Right now these are Diamine Teal and Twilight, inks that have some blue, but are sufficiently different enough to not be too "normal". The next on the list to try is Sargasso Sea. I also have generic cheapo blue cartridges which actually work quite well for me in this use.

Next I have the elegant inks, or inks that I would use for writing letters. This includes the conservative ones, and also adds Diamine Grape and Chocolate Brown. The next one I'll be trying is most likely Oxblood.

Finally I have what I call the fun inks, which is what I use for writing stuff that isn't intended to be viewed by others, be that grocery lists, or phone notes, or any other kind of general domestic scribbling. The pen I use here, can be used with any of the inks that I've already mentioned, plus Sherwood Green, and Burnt Sienna. I'm not planning add more to this bracket, but it will be a catch all for ones that for whatever reason don't work for me in the first two categories. For example, if Oxblood doesn't feel right in the elegant set, it'll fall in here and be used when colour really doesn't matter that much.

Notice how I don't have any blacks. I like inks that aren't colours that you would expect to get from a ballpoint or gel pen. If I NEED black, I'll just grab one of my multitude of ballpoint pens. This saves me having to worry about permanence to some extent, and filling my fountain pens with something that doesn't wash out easily, or finishing whatever I needed black for, and still having a pen half full of ink that I'm not enthused about.

[KKay]

I love green, and probably have more of it than anything. I also am a big fan of green-brown. I tend to like medium green to darker greens the most. My lightest green is Diamine-Kelly Green. I like it the best in a wet pen. I love many colors though.