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== Ink Color Troll Idea ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I wish I would have thought of this and I could have just done it myself.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's great. Well, maybe we'll have to do a surprise ink one day and just make it black, except we've, we've spoiled it now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Spoiled it now. But now if we do do it, people will think it's going to be black and it's like, make it white.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I've already told them I'm people I'm working on a blue, black ink. So to, to work on a second ink when I don't even have the blue, black solved is like, that's years away. So that maybe they'll forget by then and we can do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Should we finish up today? I have a couple of us TPA questions about ink colors.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, let's do that. And we have a bunch more as TPA. We'll start picking them up next week. I got a bunch of new questions. Yes. Ask for questions yesterday on Twitter. So we have all those saved and we will get to those soon.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. The first one comes from beat up. Smitty. You asks, what are some of your favorite blue, black fountain pen inks?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, this is my jam, right? Like I, it's gotta be pilot or Russia's Yuku Shinkai has to be the top of the list. It has the most character of any blue, black ink, blue, black inks. And people who've listened to this show have heard me say the same thing over and over and over again there for something that seems so basic. Like they're really hard to get exactly right. And you can get too dark. You can get, you know, too gray. You can get too blue. You can get too black. Like it's been figuring out what you like in a blue, black ink is really hard. Like I say, a Roshizuku Shinkai is my favorite. And then I can also say I like sailor, blue, black and pilot, blue, black. And those three colors are extremely different from each other. Despite all being blue, black inks, right? So I, as someone who uses blue, black religiously, those are three completely different inks. Like sailor is dark and has some red sheen pilots. Blue, black is more blue than both of these. So there's just all these different ranges. So the blue, black, I do have a list on the top five pins pages of my top five blue, black recommendations. You'll find all three of those there. And I can't remember the other two that I've put on that list, but they're probably there. As well. So yeah, if I'm going to go, if I know I want a very cool, fun to use blue, black ink, it's going to be Shinkai pretty much every time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And we also have a question that came in from the inky side who asks, what are your, some of your favorite pink inks and some of your favorite green inks in the pink column? I've only ever really tried diamine hope ink, which is bright, but still quite readable for greens. I have loved brother. Oster jade, diamond, show with green and Montblanc Irish green.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So hope pink is very, very bright. And I'd say pretty traditional pink, but extremely bright. I tend to lean towards the darker pinks are some of my favorites. So the, the most recent one that I've fallen in love with is sailor manio, a Kibi and a K E B I. It's more magenta and rose colored than your traditional pink. Um, you know, that's one of my favorites. Califolio and Janopal, of course, that Myke and I have talked about a million times. Yeah. I absolutely love it. Yeah. That's even darker than a Kibi. So I don't know if these are too magenta than the traditional pink. And then one I've used recently, which I reviewed recently and I love is the, um, Tono and limbs, Fukuoka fidelity. It's more of a strawberry watermelon, which leans towards red, but it's definitely kind of pink. Sherbety too. I don't use just like the green question that I'm going to answer here in a second. I don't use the, I guess you could say the canonical version of pink or green, right? When you say pink, it means a color, but in fountain pens, that range is enormous. So like hope pink is not in my range of pinks that I use, but I use colors adjacent to that on the darker side of the scale and you can go darker and lighter all in there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So the Tono and limbs one looks really nice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's a cool, it's a really unique color. Um, it leans more red than pink, but it's definitely has a lot of pink undertones and it's lighter and not as like saturated as something like the, a Kibi or, um, the Andronople and Ackerman, uh, Mauritius magenta is the, is the same way. All three of those are what I consider my pink inks, even though I understand that they're not very traditional pink inks. They're more magenta greens the same way. So like Montblok Irish green, Diamine Sherwood green, those are straight up green. Like if you open up a dictionary and say green, that's the color you would expect. And I don't use that color in fountain pens. I like the bright greens mostly. Um, which is one of your favorites, Myke is the Ackerman number 28 half courtier grown. So it's, I like my greens with yellow in them. So that's different than the pink pinks. I lean darker greens. I lean lighter. So, um, there's a green that's closer to traditional green, but it's still really bright and sharp that I've really enjoyed, which is a graph on Faber-Castell Viper green. It has those traditional green ink color qualities that you would think of, but it has a brightness without having a lot of yellow in it, like a Ackerman number 28. And I think it's a really, really sharp looking green. So those are my two favorite green inks and, um, neither of them I would consider the graph on Faber-Castell is close to a traditional, what you would think of a traditional green. The Ackerman is not anywhere near traditional green, but it's one of the best inks on the market.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And of my favorite greens is I mentioned it all the time. The Monteverde sweet life key lime pie. Yes. Green is wild. Right. So that's like luminescent.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So that's on the yellow side of the ledger as well. So it's really, really cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. If you would like to send in a question for a future episode, you can just send out a tweet with the hashtag ask TPA and it could be included into the future. Or you can send an email to hello at pen addict.com. Pen addict.com is also where you'll find all of Brad's work. Brad and many of us, many contributors to the pen addict, putting out great reviews all the time. You can also find Brad's products at knock.co. He's on Instagram pen addict. He's on Twitter at dowdyism. And you can also find Brad streaming live on Twitch Tuesdays, Thursdays, 10 a.m. Eastern. You're at home. What else have you got to do? Go watch Brad, unbox some pen stuff, do some shipping, have some chat. That'd be great. You can also find information about this episode over at relay.fm slash pen addict slash four one six. I am I Myke. I am Y K E. Thanks to Squarespace for their support of the show. And we'll be back next time. Until then say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad. Brad. Brad. Brad.

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