In 2011 Sheaffer updated their line with new colours. They did not create radically new colours, but rather straight forward Blue, Blue-Black, Green, Black, Red, Black, Purple and Turquoise. Sheaffer has been make their own inks for some time with a new series of colours were introduced in 1998.
found the colours of the previous release, in 2003, to not have enough saturation and the inks tended to be runny As a consequence I never really used the inks.
When I first saw the new bottles arriving at the stores I was interested to see if there had been any substantive change to the ink.
The new colours appear to have a bit more of a punch. The blue black is in my view close to a grey. The brown has a chestnut tone. The purple, red, turquoise, blue, lack are all colours reasonable close to what would be expected.
