Green
Fountain Pen Inks:
This time
I tried to come up with an ink-color chart for green inks.
With such a big variety of different shades I've found it
pretty hard to find verbal descriptions for everyone to imagine
the true color.
If you
mix equal parts of the two primary colors yellow and cyan
("-blue"), you should get what I would consider
a medium green which does not tend towards the
yellow not towards the blue ("cyan").
I'll call
the color in between this medium green and cyan a turquoise
green .
Adding
more yellow to the green will give you a yellow green or some
sort of lime or grass green.
The fourth
kind of green would be the olive green , which
can be created by mixing
the third primary color magenta (a reddish pink) to the yellow
green, adding a brownish hue.
These
four "primary" shades of green can mainly be varied
in lightness/darkness and intensity.
Medium
to Dark Green:
Parker
Quink Permanent Green: This is THE true medium green to
me and is less blue than (bottled ink and cartridge) Sheaffer
Emerald Green. The color is slightly washed out and pretty
light in terms of intensity, but the only kind of this shade
of green I know.
Sheaffer
Emerald Green: The Sheaffer Green is a true "Emerald"
green, slightly (bottled ink and cartridge) faded, similar
to Parker Quink Green but has just a touch more blue.
Lamy
Grün (Green): Medium green similar to Sheaffer
Green but slightly darker and (bottled ink and cartridge)
more blue and does not have the washed out look
Pelikan
Brilliant Grün (Green): Not much of a difference
to the Lamy green.(bottled ink and cartridge)
Herbin
Lierre Sauvage (Ivy Green): A medium "Bottle-Green"
which is more yellowish than (cartridge) Jansen green
Jansen
Grün (Green): A medium "Bottle-Green"
with good intensity, darker ("greener") (bottled
ink) than Herbin. This color is similar to Penman green but
more yellowish but less dark.
Parker
Penman Emerald Green: Does not look much of an Emerald
to me; it is more like an (bottled ink and cartridge) intense
medium to dark "Bottle-Green". ( Has flow problems
in some pens and dries out quickly)
Private
Reserve Spearmint: Pretty similar to Penman green (bottled
ink)
Private
Reserve Sherwood Green: Similar in color to the PR Spearmint
but darker and more (bottled ink) intense, a true dark "Bottle-Green".
Turquoise Green:
Montblanc
Smaragdgrün (Emerald Green): Light to medium
slightly faded Emerald green (bottled ink and cartridge) with
a turquoise touch.
Herbin
Vert Réséda (Reseda Green): Pretty
identical with the faded color of MB green.(bottled ink and
cartridge)
Waltraud
Bethge Papiere (WBP) Cool Colors Türkis
III (Turquoise): Similar to MB green in terms of
color, but more (bottled ink) and slightly darker.
Jansen
Türkis (Turquoise): Darker than W.B.P. Turquoise
and slightly more blue in it, it's (bottled ink) "half
way" towards the Waterman green.
Waterman
Green: Darkest turqoise-green I know, good color intensity
with an (bottled ink and cartridge) noticeable touch of blue
Abraxas
Blaugrün (Blue-Green): Turquoise green with
a blue touch, similar to Waterman but (bottled ink) washed
out look and not as dark
Yellow to Olive Green:
Herbin
Olive: Very light yellowish olive green.(Bottled ink and
cartridge)
W.B.P.
Cool Colors Oliv I (Olive): Great intense light
olive green with less yellow and more (Bottled ink) grass
green in it than Herbin olive (about matches the color of
the Omas Tokyo in lychee green).
Herbin
Vert Pré (Maygreen): Light "lime-green"
.(Bottled ink and cartridge)
W.B.P.
Cool Colors Maigrün II (Maygreen): Intense
bright "lime-green" to "grass-green".(Bottled
ink)
Abraxas
Maigrün (Maygreen): Similar to W.B.P. Maygreen.(Bottled
ink)
Abraxas
Grasgrün (Grassgreen): Darker than Abraxas
Maigrün and just a touch of olive in it.(Bottled ink)
Abraxas
Merkurgrün (Mercurygreen): Medium green with
olive touch (Bottled ink)
Abraxas
Smaragdgrün (Emeraldgreen): Similar to Mercurygreen
but darker (Bottled ink)
W.B.P.
Cool Colors Schilfgrün XIII (Reedgreen): A
dark greyish green, looks like reed.(Bottled ink)
W.B.P.
Classic Colors Schilfgrün: Identical to Cool Color
Reedgreen (older label).(Bottled ink)
Jansen
Dunkelgrün (Darkgreen): Dark green, kind of
a "British Racing Green".
(Bottled ink)
Pelikan
Moosgrün (Mossgreen): True medium to dark
olive green (unfortunately
(cartridge only) discontinued).
Abraxas
Olivgrün (Olivegreen): Very dark grey-black
olive green
I have not tried:
Delta
Green, Conway Stewart Green (which is said to be similar to
Penman), Rotring and Omas Green and Omas Itali Green (Limited
Production light green)
Turqoise-Blue
Fountain Pen Inks:
Most turquoise
blue fountain pen inks resemble the color of the Turquoise
stone and come out in the cyan blue - turquoise area (a swimming
pool color!).
Most turquoise
blue colors look similar. I've never found a single turquoise
blue to be disappointing (except that the new turquoise I
bought looks exactly like the old one!) in terms of color
they all have good intensity and found few being different
and unique from the ordinary turquoise blue.
Some unique
colors are:
Herbin
Bleu Azur (Azurblue): This is more a very light
blue than a turquoise and is too light for (Bottled ink and
cartridge) writing, but very unique.
Montblanc
Türkis (Turquoise): This is a very light and
bright "swimming-pool" turquoise blue.(Bottled ink
only)
Sheaffer
Peacock Blue: Similar to Montblanc.(Bottled ink and cartridge)
Jansen
Himmelblau (Skyblue): This color has a slight touch
of yellow (leans towards turquoise) (Bottled ink)
Waterman
South Sea Blue: Outstanding color, again the darkest of
its kind, similar to the (Bottled ink and cartridge) Jansen
color but darker and more intense
The following
colors are all good examples of a decent, regular Turqoise-blue:
Lamy
Türkis (Turquoise) (Bottled ink and cartridge)
Pelikan Brillant Türkis (Turquoise) (Bottled
ink and cartridge)
Parker Quink Permanent Turquoise (Bottled ink and cartridge)
W.B.P. Classic Colors Lotusblau (Lotusblue)
(Bottled ink) This ink feathers a lot!!!
Rotring Türkis (Turquoise)
I have
not tried:
Omas Turquoise
(cartridge only)
Conway Stewart Turquoise
Herbin Bleu Pervenche
Visconti Turquoise (bottled ink)
Abraxas Turqoise-Blue (bottled ink)
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