Your "standard ink"?

[velo]

Mine is Noodler's Black Swan in English Roses, all though I do try not to play favorites, but I can't help it with this ink.

This one and Black Swan in Australian Roses are two of my favourites from Noodler's.

[southpaw52]

I do not have a standard ink per-say, if I would choose it would purple and all the various shades. I do not use black ink.

[odd_soul]

My standard color seems to be purple. I have more purple inks than any other color. But for work, I like to use inks that are kind of grayish, like De Atramentis Charles Dickens (grayish green), Diamine Damson (grayish purple), and Noodlers 54th Massachusetts (grayish blue).

[bigmac53]

My go to is Baystate Blue, but I have a pretty regular rotation with several blues, blacks, and greens

[DrChumley]

My current standard ink right now is Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku. I love the color, it behaves well on cheap paper, and I promised myself I was going to finish at least one bottle of ink completely by the end of the year, and Ku-Jaku is it. I almost always have 1 or 2 pens inked up with it at any time.

[Aleks]

pretty much depends on the situation but more often than not i see myself refilling my pens with Waterman's Brown or Sailor Jentle Pomegranate

[Lady Onogaro]

Right now, I'm liking Noodler's Navajo Turquoise and Pilot Iroshizuku Murasaki-Shikibu. I switched out the nib on my Metropolitan last night to exchange it with a Plumix nib, and I put Pelikan Edelstein Sapphire in the Metropolitan, but I'm still on the fence about it. It's pretty watery looking and doesn't at all look the way it did in the pictures of it on Goulet. But I'm trying to give it a chance.

[Tyto]

I am almost never without Noodler's M54th, Walnut, and Cayenne. Jentle Grenade might become a staple, as well.

[shudaizi]

Lately I always have a pen loaded with:
MB MB (old iron gall)
Platinum Blue-Black (also iron gall)

[tiffanyhenschel]

My standard ink for work is an Iroshizuku mix I made. I had a bottle of Asa Gao sitting around that I really didn't care for, so I mixed it with some Yama Budo in a 5:2 ratio. It's perfect for what I need: beautifully behaved with any paper and pen and just purple enough to be interesting but still blue enough to pass for signatures.

[Mags]

My standard ink for work is an Iroshizuku mix I made. I had a bottle of Asa Gao sitting around that I really didn't care for, so I mixed it with some Yama Budo in a 5:2 ratio. It's perfect for what I need: beautifully behaved with any paper and pen and just purple enough to be interesting but still blue enough to pass for signatures.

That is a great idea to make an ink from ones you are less fond of.

[tiffanyhenschel]

My standard ink for work is an Iroshizuku mix I made. I had a bottle of Asa Gao sitting around that I really didn't care for, so I mixed it with some Yama Budo in a 5:2 ratio. It's perfect for what I need: beautifully behaved with any paper and pen and just purple enough to be interesting but still blue enough to pass for signatures.

That is a great idea to make an ink from ones you are less fond of.

The only downside is that I really like the mix, so now I'm left with a question. When this is gone do I try to find another ink to match, or do I buy another bottle of the ink I don't like to mix the color I do like? The Yama Budo is great either way. I use it a lot for grading essays.

[bleunuitguy]

For work, I need to carry a blue/black. So I use:
J. Herbin Bleu Nuit in my Lamy 2000. Nuit is my favorite ink by far. I love the color and the shading.
Salix lives in my Pelikan M200.
I think that they are fairly close in color and when I need to sign a document or use a waterproof ink, I switch over to the Salix.
J. Herbin Perle Noire in my Lamy Al-Star when the occasion calls for a black ink.

My fun standard colors are:
J. Herbin Lie de The, Orange Indien, and Lierre Sauvage.

[Kaputnik]

I'd like it to be a purple, but haven't quite found the one. In fact, I started a separate thread on that. The one with the perfect color isn't water resistant, the ones that are water resistant either aren't just the right shade, or have performance problems in some pens.

So I guess my "standard" ink is Pilot Blue Black. A very nice shade, where the black doesn't overpower the blue when dry. It's water resistant, and plays well with every pen that I've tried with it.

[LagNut]

Right now, for the last few months, Sailor Sei Boku (blue-black nano ink) in a Sailor Realo. It's an ink that is really water and light fast, shades nicely from that fine nib. In that pen, it has been low maintenance. It has also been low maintenance in a Platinum Plasir for going on two years - really low maintenance but much less intriguing in character. No shading or color variations but great for occasional signatures. From the nicer nib it's become my standard ink.

[Cookies]

Probably Diamine Syrah or Diamine Steel Blue/PR Blue Suede (they look quite similar in finer nibs).