Inks of Choice | Inks of Note

One of the advantages of using a fountain pen is the broad selection of inks. My pen cabinets are a testimony to the saying: "You can never have too much writing ink!"

Some of the inks that I use become my inks of choice, or a ink to take note of. These are the inks that I find I keep cycling through my pens. When I look back, documents written with these inks look good. They tend to stand the test of time.

• Blue — blue inks seem to one of the colours that most writers have in their collection of inks. I favour blues with deep colour and these are the blues that I tend to use on a regular basis.
• Blue-Black — I tend to use the blue-black inks quite a bit as the print has a darker colour. Many have a flat colour tone,but I a page written in blue-black tends to have a timeless look.
• Black — nothing looks sharper than a signature written in a bold dark black ink.
• Green — one of the colours that seems to cycle through my pens on a regular basis.
• Purple — if it is not one of the above colours, then my pen may have one of the colours that I group as the purple group of colours.