Hey #fountainpen people. I have a yellow #platinumpreppy and I am really not a fan of using yellow ink. Do I swap it out to a yellow highlighter (also not my favourite colour) or look for a "yellow adjacent" i.e. orange ink that I can use instead. I will be using them mostly for marking/annotating student work. Because the pen itself is a yellow plastic it will do my head in if a yellow coloured pen writes with a (example) purple ink.
@shuttersparks Orange or green were my allowable colours!
@jellycrystals Maybe you could skooch a little closer to yellow with a yellowish green. Lol.
The nice thing about FPs is it's easy to change colors.
@jellycrystals Yeah, sepia is a great choice. I should have thought of that. Duh. Yellow and brown are actually the same color, just different brightnesses. So brown from a yellow pen is perfectly natural. ;-)
I know a lot of people who like Diamine inks. I'm a Noodlers person. Noodlers has some nice browns if you're looking for a waterproof or bulletproof ink for marking school papers.
@shuttersparks I want to try Noodlers but they are $30 a bottle in AUD which is a little high for my price point.
@jellycrystals Ouch. Although you can spend over $20 US for a bottle of Noodlers if you don't care. The going price here these days is $14 US. On the other hand, Noodlers bottles are big, 3 ounces, and filled all the way to the top. It takes a while to go through 3 ounces. And my standard ink is a Noodlers but diluted 5 cc ink to 4 cc distilled water, giving the color and shading I like. So I get 5-plus ounces of ink for $14.
@shuttersparks Wait while I check what an ounce is... 😛
@jellycrystals Hahaha. 3 fluid ounces U.S. is 88 ml.
@shuttersparks Just checked prices again, $23 (currently on sale)-$50 for a bottle. I went with Diamine 80ml for $16.95... I will just put Noodlers on my birthday list so someone else can buy me one.
@jellycrystals Wow. That's spendy for ink. I wonder if there's an import tax on stuff like that. It might be considered a luxury item. Hah. No, no, it's just INK, like for writing, you know?
@shuttersparks 1 AUD buys 61c USD for starters.. + imports and then online only so + postage...
@jellycrystals Yeah, I was taking the exchange rate into consideration. Containerized international shipping is super cheap nowadays so I was wondering why the big price markup. Maybe it's just because they can get away with it. Hahaha. Captive market.
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When I’m using a fountain pen of a colour that I don’t want to write in, I always ink it with black ink. Somehow it’s less painful than having a random colour that does not match the pen. But if you’re using it for annotations, I guess a light/bright orange would be good :)
@Inhae I found "sepia" in Diamine which is leading the charge so far! I probably could just use black or blue.. Haha
@jellycrystals ink? In my day we had to use water without pens … or water … cue 4 Yorkshiremen
@Lobster Ooh. Have never seen that version of that sketch!
@jellycrystals, I have only one yellow pen, and I don't have any yellow inks. I have had it filled with Lamy Red, but right now it's got Diamine Aurora Borealis, which is a blue-leaning green. My pens are mostly silver, so I don't expect any particular color. Be free! Pick your favorite ink and roll with it!
@killick Maybe... It is challenging. I found a sepia/orangey/brown that should work
@jellycrystals Hmm, quite a problem. Red and green are adjacent to yellow but not blue / purple. Seems that red, orange, yellow green or green wouldn't be too jarring from a yellow pen.