Even though I don’t really associate this shade of blue with the sea, I love today’s ink. With a decent amount of shading, and just enough “cornflower blue” tint, I find this one a stunner. Plus I’m always happy to find quotes about the sea.

I’m not sure why, but I want this green to be something… different. Brighter or more muted, darker or more subtle, saturated or pale. Our reactions to color are as personal as can be, and there are times when two people looking at the same color will use two very different words (like “yellow” and…

The King’s Blue, or royal blue, is a terrific color ink. A few Mays ago, I wrote with a different color blue ink (in honor of the Blessed Virgin May during her month of May), and was amazed at just how different they can be. Today’s is bright, cheerful, and bold.

Strange name, but apparently this refers to a state in Brazil whose Portuguese name is Pernambuco. It’s a nice red with a hint of coral. Very pleasing to write with, especially since it seems like it’s the Ohio of Brazil in terms of size and population.

Here’s yet another blue that exhibits massive amounts of red (!) on fine stationery, and as a reminder the paper you see every day in these blogs is Tomoe River as found in the Hobonichi Weeks and Cousin planners. This is a great splash of color to start the month of June!

To me this is a greenish black, but it’s definitely one of these “office appropriate” fountain pen inks. Mid-saturation and a mid- kind of feeling to the hue itself, which produces a “soft black” look.

Today we have a stunner!! Just such a great, solid, bold, smooth, wet ink!

Green-gold isn’t my favorite color, so I’m not terribly objective on this one, but for a color family I don’t care for, it’s certainly a well-behaved, nicely delicate-looking ink. I guess it just reminds me of macrame and old afghans knit by grandmothers. And that’s not a bad thing, I just don’t necessarily look for…

Moving on to a new company today and for the next thirteen days: Rohrer and Klingner. They’ve been making ink in Leipzig since 1892, so presumably they know a thing or two. They make ink for all sorts of purposes (and you should always make sure you ink is suitable for your pen, because not…