Purple inks

[mikeal]

So I have a couple new pens coming in, a Prera and a couple Metropolitans.
My current ink selection is pretty limited- a nice blue, a black, a bright red, and a green.
I'm looking to spice it up with a nice dark royal purple type. Any suggestions?

 

[Corey]

Noodler's North African Violet

 

[mikeschu]

Waterman Purple is very nice.

 

[lowjax]

I really like J. Herbin Violette Pensee. So does my 9 year old daughter. It's her favorite.

 

[Snargle]

I like Diamine Majestic Purple. When I think of the color purple, that's the shade that comes to my mind. Like most Diamine inks, very well-behaved and reasonably priced.

If iron gall inks interest you, Rohrer & Klingner Scabiosa is a well-behaved darker purple.

 

[BubblesTGB]

Montblanc Lavender Purple.

 

[lowjax]

Here's a great review thread of a lot of Royal Purple inks.

http://blog.andersonpens.com/ink-review-the-royal-treatment-or-a-review-of-several-purple-inks/

 

[rider4life]

Pelikan's Ink of the Year for 2015 is Amethyst. Quite nice looking in the pic. Waiting on an actual written pic before I get some.
http://www.pelikan.com/pulse/Pulsar/en_US.FWI.displayShop.93693./edelstein-ink

Cheers,

M.

 

[TAYLORPUPPY]

Wow, those are nice purples

 

[Slivovitz]

My favorite purple, after trying quite a few, is Sailor Jentle Shigure. It's quite a dark purple, and coming out of wet writing pens almost looks black until it dries. I trust it not to cause clogging or staining issues, but it has a fair degree of water resistance. Private Reserve Ebony Purple is not bad, but it's a bit too black, as if it's your secret that it's really purple.

Noodler's La Reine Mauve and Kung Te-Cheng are both nice colors, and different from each other, with the KTC being more of a bluish purple. Unfortunately, I have had clogging issues with both, and serious nib creep with the LRM in almost every pen I've tried it in. I wouldn't use them in any of my "good" pens, but I do have a Pilot Varsity that I refilled with the LRM, and it's actually the only pen that handled it without problems.

I've tried, as I mentioned, quite a few other purples, in fact, I just thought of eight others that I've tried, but in most cases I either didn't care for the color, or there was something unsatisfactory about the other properties, at least for me with my pens.

 

[nemo]

Sheaffer or Pelikan. Before she passed away, my mother always told me only old ladies used purple inks.

So I think of her whenever I use them.

 

[Doc4]

Sheaffer or Pelikan. Before she passed away, my mother always told me only old ladies used purple inks.

So I think of her whenever I use them.

Every time I use a purple ink, I shall think of Douggie as an old lady.

 

[nemo]

No one calls me Dougie.

No one.

 

[mikeal]

I'm really loving all the inks. I want several of them.
While looking at some of the purple ink pictures I also noticed noodler's purple wampum. Has anyone used this ink? Does it perform reliably?

 

[ChefJohnBoy-ardee]

Private Reserve Tanzanite is a subtle purple but still purple. It is almost passable as an office ink.

PR DC Super Violet is quite electric. Its bright and vibrant. Really purple.

 

[Vespasian]

Another vote for J. Herbin Violette Pensee. Formal enough form business use, easy-to-read, classic French violet.

 

[perfaddict]

Montblanc Lavender Purple.

+1.

 

[mikeal]

Montblanc Lavender Purple.

I really like the looks of this. Going to make the short list.

 

[mikeschu]

If you want something different, J. Herbin PdL is excellent.

 

[andrew98]

Diamine Damson is far and away my favorite purple ink.

-Andy