What is your favourite ink colour?

There is no need to narrow it down to brand, batch no. etc... a simple blue, green or purple will suffice!

I worked with a guy for many years who refused to use blue ink- ballpoints, rollerballs, pens... just not blue.
I also had another colleague who wrote all of his trade tickets in green (you can imagine how many years back that might have been).

My favourite - Green

Iroshizuku Yamabudo. Hard to describe - maybe dark pink with a touch of red thrown in. I definitely prefer the reds.

I like a nice royal blue that ever so subtly leans toward purple, e.g. Lamy Blue

Browns and sepias are my favorite.

I could say purple, and have tried a wide range of purples, but for various reasons, it isn't the color I actually use the most.

Based on usage, it would have to be a range of blues that are perceptibly blue, not blue-blacks where you have to look twice.

For use, it's blue (or blue-black), which make up 95% of my FP writing. But I really love looking at greens -- sadly I have had bad luck finding one I can live with longterm. Someday I'll find The One.

Blue

If I am writing/signing anything professionally, it is blue. Period. I will use a variety of shades as long as it is clearly distinct from printed black.

All my grading is done in red. My students have written poems cursing my red pens.

I always tend to blue, but Tanzanite is my shade of choice.

I have several blues, but my favorite ink is a copper color.

Generally Speaking Royal Blue, blue/black, black, but I`m enjoying non blues or blacks these days as well.

My only ink is J. Herbin Violette Pensee.

Redish-purple. I use a dark purple-violet that I mixed myself for work, and at home I use Noodlers BSIAR.

When I write my Thank you notes, they are in blue....however i love black with my stub tip!

Although I use a wide variety of colors, I probably use some form of Blue-Black the most, followed closely by Black. Iroshizuku Shin-kai is my fave BB, but I use quite a bit of Bad Belted Kingfisher for permanence. Not too particular about the black, usually Bullet Proof Black. Dark gray I like Lexington gray. Still looking for the perfect green, most are too light for anything other than Christmas cards, I want something darker for every day use. Perhaps something along the blue-green or teal lines, dark but more green than blue. A formal green. Still looking for the right brown as well. So far I like Rome Burning pretty well as my brown good for daily use. Red-purple I like Black Swan In Australian Roses, Antietam and Ancient Copper.

Private Reserve's Chocolat. For some reason I can't recall, I have always been partial to brown colored writing inks.

Before I retired from Federal employment, I signed several reports in brown ink, using my then Parker 45. The 'Office Manager' a.k.a. busybody, informed me brown was not a legal signature. She asked the agency's lawyer to confirm this. His response letter, stating "not so" was signed in emerald green fountain pen ink with his Mont Blanc.

I use dark red.

For the pass around here at B and B, I got a small bottle of dark red. So I use that one.

I commonly use blue, green and purple ink. In blue I prefer Sheaffer Skrip and Herbin Eclat de Saphir. Two green inks I favour are Pelikan Edelstein and Diamine Emerald. Finally, I highly appreciate Diamine Imperial Purple. There are some other inks around in my drawer but these are very seldom used.

BobbyB said:

Before I retired from Federal employment, I signed several reports in brown ink, using my then Parker 45. The 'Office Manager' a.k.a. busybody, informed me brown was not a legal signature. She asked the agency's lawyer to confirm this. His response letter, stating "not so" was signed in emerald green fountain pen ink with his Mont Blanc.

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Righteous!

At work, my options are black or black, so that's what I use the most. My favorite ink, though, is a bright royal blue (Iroshizuku Asa Gao is currently my choice).