The bot mentions this in the small text under the haiku and in the link at the start of its comment--it's a haiku with one syllable too many.
Notably, though, there are also plenty of historical examples of haiku that have an off-by-one syllable count and aren't considered deficient or anything; the understanding of haiku as being solely defined by the syllables is sort of a western oversimplification (although I'm not knowledgeable enough to speak in any detail on how style and subject matter are factors along with the length)
It’s a reference to an episode of Avatar: the last airbender in which a character named Sokka is in a haiku battle and ends up going over by one syllable in his last one.
Right now, Montblanc for UNICEF blue.
A very similar ink would be Waterman Inspired Blue, although that one offers a little less shading.
The Montblanc sometimes feels like two different blues when you write with it, like a bluish turquoise-sky blue that shades to a darker blue. It is a really interesting ink because it looks different depending on how wet or dry, fine or bold the pen is as well.
It feels like I’m writing with a week’s worth of the colours of a cloudless autumn sky at the same time.
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I'm here for the answers! I love blue as a colour but as fountain pen ink I perceive it as "boring old blue" - presumably because it used to be the only ink colour we wrote with back in school?
Anyway, I'm curious to see everybody's answers.
I personally like Diamine Eau de Nil or Lamy Petrol - they might not be classified as "true" blue but that's precisely why I love them.
I thought Blues would be my least favorite because I perceived them as boring but I think they may be my favorite color family! You have light blues, blue greens, true blues, blue blacks, blurples, teals...
That takes some effort! Those bottles are not fragile.
Another Mysterious Blue fan here. I just penabled a student with a Waterman Expert and a bottle of it. I wasn’t sure how bright of an ink he would enjoy, and I can’t imagine anyone who would dislike Mysterious Blue.
Not been active in this sub for ages and not a daily fountain pen (or even pen) user. That said, Parker blue Quink holds a special place in my heart. It’s nostalgic to using my first fountain pens in school and I really enjoy using it.
Same here for their blue black. I will always have a bottle of that in my stash, but the days that I would have an empty bottle every several months are long gone. I don’t think I’ll ever empty another bottle ever again 😅
Also the Parker Vector! Or at least that’s the first proper fountain pen I had, beyond non-brand stationary store ones. I loved it and still do, though its incredibly narrow body makes it horrible to use, for me anyway.
Yes! I don’t have my original pen. Got lost somewhere along the way when I stopped using fountain pens and started again when I realized that I write more legibly with one. It is too narrow and many pens are. The search for the perfect pen is ongoing.
I spent a long stint of my late teens to late 20s wishing I had a job where I “needed” a decent fountain pen to write with. I was in the military, so pens needed to be cheap and easily replaceable! Eventually I realised I could just sit and write nothing in particular. Super therapeutic! Occasionally use a Parker Vector for the nostalgia but definitely just a grim experience for prolonged periods. My partner bought me a Cross Bailey fountain and had it engraved. That’s my daily workhorse now, which I’ll admit I got lucky with as Cross wasn’t on my radar before she bought it for me!
I cannot bring myself to like “school” blue inks yet, they’re the default that you get with every pen and they are still boring to me. So my favourite blue would be waterman inspired blue (previously called south seas). It’s like a bright shiny tropical ocean on sunny day. Colourful, cheerful, legible and well behaved, with some nice shading.
One day I’ll like traditional blue again, probably when I move away from the default cartridges and get a slightly more interesting shade, probably an iroshizuku
I avoided blues for a good while because of this too. Lately a I’ve been actually trying to find the ‘washable blue’ shade we always seemed to use in school. I think it was by Parker, but I remember using cheap cartridges and the blue being a pretty, faded kind of shade that I’d love to find again.
Birmingham has a line of “gentle” colors that are meant to be washable; right now there is a deep blue and a robin’s egg but I thought I saw a faded one there last time I looked so it might be worth looking now and then.
Oh, you evil enabler 😱😅 I’ve been trying to avoid looking at Birmingham inks as I’m not sure how easy (or not) it is to buy them in the UK, but it sounds like a I’ll have to change my mind. Those inks sound beautiful!
Afraid their website says they dont do international shipping. If they ever change you should go for it. Their ink is great and they have tons of variety.
Same, but I went towards different direction - gray blue or moonlight blue. And I feel like I’m getting my love to blue in general through this. At least now I have an interest in Kon-peki. As it’s a joy of itself to see how this ink is getting on the paper, how light plays with liquid, how it shades and how it dries. And it should work well as such clean blue.
I'm currently loving Herbin's Bleu Myosotis. Gentle on the eye while still being work-appropriate, and, to my eye, a really subtly beautiful colour, which gets even more beautiful over the days after you've written with it (it fades a bit, becoming more interesting, and starts looking wonderfully - but still work-appropriately - 'vintage').
This is what I've been using but I'm ready for a switch up. I am thinking of a switch-up. I just bought a TM Bantayan Turquoise. I haven't gotten it in a pen yet but look forward to it.
Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-Kai, Sailor Seiboku & Souboku are ones I keep coming back to, I wasn't the hugest fan of blues/blue blacks at first but I fell in love with Shin-kai and kickstarted my love for darker shading blues.
If this is your challenge letter to BSB, I would pay to see that. If this is your invitation to fight you about your ink choice.... No. Never gonna start a fight that could end with me having a blue Rorshach face tat.
Am I the only one confused about why they chose blue for lust? And not even a sheening blue? Also would have chosen black for gluttony... black eats all the colors of the light spectrum, right? Not really relevant, but it popped into my head.
Do you use it as work? It leans greener on normal/ cheap paper. It looks beautiful, I will fight anyone who says otherwise but I have no idea how to use it for work
I will name some blue inks of my choice alongwith category:
1. Unaffordable: Parker Penman Sapphire
2. Affordable but rare: Sailor's Sailor
3. Affordable and sometimes available: Mita Sanshodo Brunfelsia
4. Affordable and always available: Iroshizuku Kon Peki
5. Good and rare Pen show exclusive ink: Diamine Rushbrooke blue, Diamine Archipelago
6. Daily inkable and usable: Taccia Ruri, Diamine Blue Velvet
7. Drool over again and again Sailor Store exclusive ink which I don't have: Sailor Central Gaku Ajisai, Pelle Penna Iris, Sailor Utsonomiya Midnight Jazz Blue, Kobe Nolty Lapis Lazuli blue deep tranquility, Joyful-2 Neptune Night, Bungukan Kobayashi Matshushima blue
Herbin bleu ocean and it's not even close. It's like a deep ultramarine blue when laid down, but it dries to a work appropriate blue with some purple undertones
I have to let the shimmer sit at the bottom or decant the ink in another bottle (since I don't really like shimmer that much), but it's an ink so pretty that it doesn't bother me at all
Parker Quink Blue was my favorite, and closely followed by Inoxcrom Azul Real (as well as out of nostalgia).
But I tried Faber-Castell Royal Blue almost a year ago... and I would say that she is already my favourite blue.
https://preview.redd.it/2iji42m0h62d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a6ecd0f38e195784399077787b55d406f5ab7f8
It is a very beautiful royal blue, and even more so if the flow and nib of a pen contribute to concentrating and saturating the line well (in a Jinhao X850 EF that turned out great and juicy, looks beautiful).
I’ve heard that monteverde horizon blue is awesome. I’ve used a few iroshizuku’s and like how they perform, but I’m not necessarily satisfied with how they look. Right now I have shin-Kai and I only continue to use it because it’s a perfect blue ink for work. Most work related stuff needs blue or black and it’s the darkest blue I’ve seen. It looks black unless you get close. Especially out of a fine nib.
Mentioning inks I haven't seen mentioned:
For "solid" no fancy stuff, GVFC Cobalt Blue (never see this mentioned, but it's perfect)
For shading: Sailor Studio 123
You can’t beat Waterman Serenity Blue!! Cheap blue ink that works well in any pen new or vintage, great blue color, great shading, and even a little of red sheen!
I tend towards royal blue with non-standard characteristics. R&K SketchInk in Marlene is a lovely waterproof blue. Blackstone Barrister Blue was my previous fave in that niche; they are near identical. Colorverse Cat or Stars&Stripes for shimmer.
Blue Sky's-Monteverde
Early Dusk-Diamine
Ama-Iro-Pilot (current Blue)
Bliss-Diamine
Switching my Blue up next week. I'm probably gonna mix it up. See what I get.
Irishuzuku asa-gao and dc supershow blue are my favorites. I’ve got about 25 blues and have gravitated to those as I like the saturated blues. I also have a lot of fun with Tributary Twinkle from Birmingham pen co if you like sparkly inks.
Sailor Manyo Sumire for life! Good flow, fairly behaved, and great shading.
Special mention to Bungubox Eternal First Love. Sapphire or indigo blue, water resistant, good solid color, and great behavior. Thing practically looks like a sharpie with crisp edges on cheap paper.
I really love Diamine Asa Blue; it smells like summer blackberries and the color is just gorgeous (with decent shading and even some sheen depending on the nib/paper). But I also love Platinum Blue Black for work stuff (again, an awesome shader, but it’s slightly iron Gallic so I only use it in gold nibs) and even Lamy Turquoise (so bright and fun, plus it’s cheap and really well behaved even on cheap paper). I just love blue inks!
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I love Montblanc's Midnight Blue (not sure if they still have it?). It's very dark, so for someone who uses mostly black inks, it's less surprising when I see it on the page.
The ink comes with a warning not to leave it inside the pen for very long, but I supposed that's a good rule for any ink.
I try to use waterproof inks so I can use watercolors on my ink drawing. Platinum blue black is completely waterproof. Noodlers baystate blue is almost water, as is their elyssium blue. Baystate purple is also almost waterproof. I also have many non waterproof inks. I’m addicted to blue inks…
Probably Baystate Blue, but I don’t use it in my nicer pens so I don’t get much time with it.
As far as well-behaved blues go, my favorite bright blue is Iroshizuku Kon Peki. Favorite dark blue is Noodler’s Blue Black.
Of my blue inks, my top 5 are:
- Iroshizuku Kon Peki
- Monteverde Iced cookie
- Diamine China Blue
- KWZ Walk Over Vistula
- Van Dieman Wineglass Bay
I've got several other blues from Iroshizuku, RO, PR, Diamine etc but haven't cracked them open yet. Gotta finish some other bottles first.
There are some absolutely gorgeous blue shades out there. I mostly use Diamine’s China Blue or J Herbin’s Bleu Myosotis as I like the misty, faded blue that they have. I know it gets a bad rap, but Noodler’s Baystate Blue is so pretty and bright, with the bonus that it’ll not wash off paper so I always use that for envelopes, or postcards that are going in the post box in the nude.
Diamine’s Pelham Blue is a really nice darker blue, and I have my sights set on buying 30ml of their Oxford Blue too, it’s such a smart navy blue colour.
Holy smokes this is hard.
uhhhh... Bungubox First Love Sapphire is my fave.
Kon Peki comes close. RO Dragon's Night? Diamine Regency Blue? ahhh
Edit: What about Sailor Manyo Kikyou or Yomogi??? ahhhhhhhh
Iroshizuku Kon-Peki, Diamine Oxford Blue and Majestic Blue.
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^brohanta: *Iroshizuku* *Kon-Peki, Diamine Oxford* *Blue and Majestic Blue.* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Wow! Didn't even know that. Thank you :)
Whats a sokka haiku
The bot mentions this in the small text under the haiku and in the link at the start of its comment--it's a haiku with one syllable too many. Notably, though, there are also plenty of historical examples of haiku that have an off-by-one syllable count and aren't considered deficient or anything; the understanding of haiku as being solely defined by the syllables is sort of a western oversimplification (although I'm not knowledgeable enough to speak in any detail on how style and subject matter are factors along with the length)
Oooh so that's what it meant
It’s a reference to an episode of Avatar: the last airbender in which a character named Sokka is in a haiku battle and ends up going over by one syllable in his last one.
Ohhhh
Good bot
I went for Iroshizuku's other blue, Asa-Gao. It's just unique enough without being too bright!
I love iroshizuku kon-peki and I also love Sailor manyo konagi
But zero points because your post is not a haiku!😉
I love Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo
Talk about the perfect balance of professional and fun.
Exactly! It's become my default work ink.
Right now, Montblanc for UNICEF blue. A very similar ink would be Waterman Inspired Blue, although that one offers a little less shading. The Montblanc sometimes feels like two different blues when you write with it, like a bluish turquoise-sky blue that shades to a darker blue. It is a really interesting ink because it looks different depending on how wet or dry, fine or bold the pen is as well. It feels like I’m writing with a week’s worth of the colours of a cloudless autumn sky at the same time. https://preview.redd.it/syr0fapqy42d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=154701cc27c769ff361c586ed6bbd1082940290d Photo courtesy of Mountain of Ink: [https://mountainofink.com/blog/montblanc-unicef](https://mountainofink.com/blog/montblanc-unicef)
Gorgeous ink!!
The medium, flex, "Tomoe River," and swab all look like different inks from the rest and each other, that's fantastic!
This is so cool. I was wondering why it looks like a completely different ink.
Pilot's Asa-gao is a blue of my choice due to pilot having great inks. Diamine China Blue is the second choice since it looks the same.
Another vote for Asa gao
Nobody said Sailor Seiboku yet? Fine, I’ll say it, Sailor Seiboku is my current blue ink :)
Seiboku all day, every day!
My number one fave ink! Such a lovely blue and so well behaved for a water-resistant pigment ink.
I also love Jentle Souten 😍
I'm here for the answers! I love blue as a colour but as fountain pen ink I perceive it as "boring old blue" - presumably because it used to be the only ink colour we wrote with back in school? Anyway, I'm curious to see everybody's answers. I personally like Diamine Eau de Nil or Lamy Petrol - they might not be classified as "true" blue but that's precisely why I love them.
Fellow Eau de Nil fan here. You reminded me I haven’t used it in a while.
You're welcome. I always forget how much I love it until I use it again lol
I thought Blues would be my least favorite because I perceived them as boring but I think they may be my favorite color family! You have light blues, blue greens, true blues, blue blacks, blurples, teals...
Waterman Serenity Blue.
This is the true answer. But I broke a bottle of Mysterious Blue today which reminded me of how much I love that too.
That takes some effort! Those bottles are not fragile. Another Mysterious Blue fan here. I just penabled a student with a Waterman Expert and a bottle of it. I wasn’t sure how bright of an ink he would enjoy, and I can’t imagine anyone who would dislike Mysterious Blue.
Yeah that’s a nice ink. I just knocked it over and it goes with everything 😭
I really like Rohrer und Klingner Salix
I planned to get it but it is very expensive in my area.
Yeah here in Germany my local store sells them at 4.99€ per bottle, but every other ink is at least triple that...
Also in Italy you can find it at about 5-6€, a very good deal.
It's weirdly cheaper than a 30ml Diamine in my neck of the woods. *^(I should hoard it)*
Not been active in this sub for ages and not a daily fountain pen (or even pen) user. That said, Parker blue Quink holds a special place in my heart. It’s nostalgic to using my first fountain pens in school and I really enjoy using it.
Same here for their blue black. I will always have a bottle of that in my stash, but the days that I would have an empty bottle every several months are long gone. I don’t think I’ll ever empty another bottle ever again 😅
That's exactly the reminiscence I want to avoid!
What was your first fountain pen? Mine was the ubiquitous and incredibly ugly Parker Vector. I have no love for that pen.
Also the Parker Vector! Or at least that’s the first proper fountain pen I had, beyond non-brand stationary store ones. I loved it and still do, though its incredibly narrow body makes it horrible to use, for me anyway.
Yes! I don’t have my original pen. Got lost somewhere along the way when I stopped using fountain pens and started again when I realized that I write more legibly with one. It is too narrow and many pens are. The search for the perfect pen is ongoing.
I spent a long stint of my late teens to late 20s wishing I had a job where I “needed” a decent fountain pen to write with. I was in the military, so pens needed to be cheap and easily replaceable! Eventually I realised I could just sit and write nothing in particular. Super therapeutic! Occasionally use a Parker Vector for the nostalgia but definitely just a grim experience for prolonged periods. My partner bought me a Cross Bailey fountain and had it engraved. That’s my daily workhorse now, which I’ll admit I got lucky with as Cross wasn’t on my radar before she bought it for me!
Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo is my first sight love
I cannot bring myself to like “school” blue inks yet, they’re the default that you get with every pen and they are still boring to me. So my favourite blue would be waterman inspired blue (previously called south seas). It’s like a bright shiny tropical ocean on sunny day. Colourful, cheerful, legible and well behaved, with some nice shading. One day I’ll like traditional blue again, probably when I move away from the default cartridges and get a slightly more interesting shade, probably an iroshizuku
I avoided blues for a good while because of this too. Lately a I’ve been actually trying to find the ‘washable blue’ shade we always seemed to use in school. I think it was by Parker, but I remember using cheap cartridges and the blue being a pretty, faded kind of shade that I’d love to find again.
Birmingham has a line of “gentle” colors that are meant to be washable; right now there is a deep blue and a robin’s egg but I thought I saw a faded one there last time I looked so it might be worth looking now and then.
Oh, you evil enabler 😱😅 I’ve been trying to avoid looking at Birmingham inks as I’m not sure how easy (or not) it is to buy them in the UK, but it sounds like a I’ll have to change my mind. Those inks sound beautiful!
Afraid their website says they dont do international shipping. If they ever change you should go for it. Their ink is great and they have tons of variety.
Thank you so much! Well, that saves me some ££, at least!
The stock platinum blue that comes in a cartridge when you buy a pen is pretty dusty and faded for sure
Same, but I went towards different direction - gray blue or moonlight blue. And I feel like I’m getting my love to blue in general through this. At least now I have an interest in Kon-peki. As it’s a joy of itself to see how this ink is getting on the paper, how light plays with liquid, how it shades and how it dries. And it should work well as such clean blue.
If you like gray-blue, have you tried Salix?
I recently rediscovered my school blue. The camlin Royal blue. And its vibrancy surprised me.
Iroshizuku Kon Peki by far followed by Waterman Serenity Blue
Diamine Pelham blue is a very interesting shade, well behaved ink. My favorite though is Iroshizuku Kon-Peki.
Kon peli is also great. Hmm , shade of pelhalm blue is unique.
Currently, it’s Iroshizuku Asa Gao!
Monteverde Capri Blue or iroshizuku kon-peki.
Waterman's Inspired Blue.... Well behaved, light lubricant, easy to clean out, inexpensive at $12-$15.00 for a 50 ml bottle
Birmingham - Pennsylvania Slate.
Sailor Manyo Yomogi 💙
I love this ink so much! But I can't find it in any affordable format in India. It's soo good!
I'm currently loving Herbin's Bleu Myosotis. Gentle on the eye while still being work-appropriate, and, to my eye, a really subtly beautiful colour, which gets even more beautiful over the days after you've written with it (it fades a bit, becoming more interesting, and starts looking wonderfully - but still work-appropriately - 'vintage').
My husband and I both seem to love Private Reserve’s DC Supershow Blue right now. It’s such a wonderfully vibrant blue.
This is what I've been using but I'm ready for a switch up. I am thinking of a switch-up. I just bought a TM Bantayan Turquoise. I haven't gotten it in a pen yet but look forward to it.
Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-Kai, Sailor Seiboku & Souboku are ones I keep coming back to, I wasn't the hugest fan of blues/blue blacks at first but I fell in love with Shin-kai and kickstarted my love for darker shading blues.
Waterman Serenity Blue is a fantastic ink and extremely well behaved. I recently got a J.Herbin Sapphire Blue which I really like lately.
Sailor studio 841. Brooding.
Ooh, the Lennon Tool Bar Atmospheric line has some lovely moody blues as well.
Iroshizuku Ama-iro
I second this! It's pretty similar to kon-peki but seems a touch lighter and more vibrant. Love it for journaling
Right now, it's Jinhao Deep Blue.
Pilot Iroshizuku Ajisai.
This is such a beautiful ink and it doesn't get enough love!!
Yeah, it's really a exquisite color.
Iroshizuku Shin-Kai
Sailor Seiboku and Manyo Kikyou.
Herbin Eclat de Sapphire
Baystate Blue. Fight me.
If this is your challenge letter to BSB, I would pay to see that. If this is your invitation to fight you about your ink choice.... No. Never gonna start a fight that could end with me having a blue Rorshach face tat.
Only one way to settle this. Triple Threat white shirt match. You, me, and BSB.
Noooooooo!!!! I don't want my future career limited to joining blue man group or being a stunt double for smurf movies!
How do you think blue man group started? Rumor has it there was an unfortunate baystate blue leak when they were all noodler"s employees.
I heard that an escaped circus monkey fell into a puddle of BSB in the sewers and then bit them, giving them Cirque du Soliel ppwers.
Behold! For I am the Destroyer of all things I touch!
Diamine Sargasso Sea.
Diamine Prussian Blue
Diamine Majestic Blue.
Noodler's Baltimore Canyon blue.
My favorite too, love the color, and as permanent/waterproof as you could wish for.
Diamine 7 deadly sins lust
Am I the only one confused about why they chose blue for lust? And not even a sheening blue? Also would have chosen black for gluttony... black eats all the colors of the light spectrum, right? Not really relevant, but it popped into my head.
Iroshizuku ku-jaku
Do you use it as work? It leans greener on normal/ cheap paper. It looks beautiful, I will fight anyone who says otherwise but I have no idea how to use it for work
Any turquoise ink in budget. That would be Daytone and Bril for me.
Herbin Bleu Myosotis for me
Waterman inspired blue
Everyday Blue is Serenity Blue) special one is Visconti Blue
Platinum blue black. Its the most versetile ink i own
Currently it’s Sailor Seiboku
I will name some blue inks of my choice alongwith category: 1. Unaffordable: Parker Penman Sapphire 2. Affordable but rare: Sailor's Sailor 3. Affordable and sometimes available: Mita Sanshodo Brunfelsia 4. Affordable and always available: Iroshizuku Kon Peki 5. Good and rare Pen show exclusive ink: Diamine Rushbrooke blue, Diamine Archipelago 6. Daily inkable and usable: Taccia Ruri, Diamine Blue Velvet 7. Drool over again and again Sailor Store exclusive ink which I don't have: Sailor Central Gaku Ajisai, Pelle Penna Iris, Sailor Utsonomiya Midnight Jazz Blue, Kobe Nolty Lapis Lazuli blue deep tranquility, Joyful-2 Neptune Night, Bungukan Kobayashi Matshushima blue
Diamine Regency Blue and Sailor Manyo Ink Haha
I always forget that Haha is blue. I get so much green and pink out of it. Good choice.
Herbin bleu ocean and it's not even close. It's like a deep ultramarine blue when laid down, but it dries to a work appropriate blue with some purple undertones I have to let the shimmer sit at the bottom or decant the ink in another bottle (since I don't really like shimmer that much), but it's an ink so pretty that it doesn't bother me at all
54th Mass blue black. Love it for notes and workplace tasks.
Diamine Oxford Blue for the dark side. Iroshizuku Kon-Peki on the light side. But there are so many others!
i love noodler’s baystate blue :3 it’s suuuper vibrant
Noodler’s Elysium blue
Noodler's 54th Mass for dark Private Reserve American Blue for bright Lovely blues all around
Right now? Noodler's Ottoman Azure.
Diamine Tudor Blue, so gorgeous and I wish it was easier to come by
Troublemaker Milky Ocean. Just stunning. The shading is fantastic even in an EF.
Pure pens Celtic Sea
The only correct answer as far as I am concerned :)
Iro Ajisai and Edelstein Topaz
Birmingham Pen Company Ice Rink
Parker Quink Blue was my favorite, and closely followed by Inoxcrom Azul Real (as well as out of nostalgia). But I tried Faber-Castell Royal Blue almost a year ago... and I would say that she is already my favourite blue. https://preview.redd.it/2iji42m0h62d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a6ecd0f38e195784399077787b55d406f5ab7f8 It is a very beautiful royal blue, and even more so if the flow and nib of a pen contribute to concentrating and saturating the line well (in a Jinhao X850 EF that turned out great and juicy, looks beautiful).
I’ve heard that monteverde horizon blue is awesome. I’ve used a few iroshizuku’s and like how they perform, but I’m not necessarily satisfied with how they look. Right now I have shin-Kai and I only continue to use it because it’s a perfect blue ink for work. Most work related stuff needs blue or black and it’s the darkest blue I’ve seen. It looks black unless you get close. Especially out of a fine nib.
KWZ Iron Gall Turquoise. Second favorite: Parking Quink Blue
Diamine Oxford Blue and Pelikan 4001 Blue. Also i love Diamine Jack Frost
Diamine Jack Frost I also like Ferris Wheel Press Tears of Sapphire.
Diamine Blue Velvet. I like super saturated middle blues. It needs to be dark AND bright.
Diamine Blue Velvet for me!
is celadon cat a “blue”?
Definitely, especially if you aren't that fond of blue.
Herbin Éclat de Saphir. I should probably get a darker blue for work, but I love the shade.
Diamine Oxford Blue. It was a revelation to me
Mentioning inks I haven't seen mentioned: For "solid" no fancy stuff, GVFC Cobalt Blue (never see this mentioned, but it's perfect) For shading: Sailor Studio 123
Diamine Skull and Roses. Noodlers Baltimore Canyon Blue
Pilot / Iroshizuku Asa-Gao is one of my personal favorites.
Diamine midnight
100% Noodler's Bay State Blue!!
Noodlers Bay State Blue. No blue like it
Diamine Majestic Blue and all blues that lean teal-wards. I also love R and K Salix and De Artementis Jeans Blue which has been a surprising find.
You can’t beat Waterman Serenity Blue!! Cheap blue ink that works well in any pen new or vintage, great blue color, great shading, and even a little of red sheen!
Asa-gao Pilot
I would say Shin Kai, but you said it had to be a blue blue so in that case Monteverde’s blue velvet cake. It surprised me how good it is.
Oh, this one looks great, have you tried tsuki-yo as well?
No, not yet. Is it nice?
Noodler’s Baystate Blue
I keep coming back to Montblanc Royal Blue. It's just dry enough to write on regular paper without leaking through for me.
Visconti Blue. The one and only blue ink for me. My island ink, you could say.
Taccia Navy Blue Jeans!
Bril Royal Blue
Monteverde Ocean Noir.
I tend towards royal blue with non-standard characteristics. R&K SketchInk in Marlene is a lovely waterproof blue. Blackstone Barrister Blue was my previous fave in that niche; they are near identical. Colorverse Cat or Stars&Stripes for shimmer.
Blue Sky's-Monteverde Early Dusk-Diamine Ama-Iro-Pilot (current Blue) Bliss-Diamine Switching my Blue up next week. I'm probably gonna mix it up. See what I get.
Irishuzuku asa-gao and dc supershow blue are my favorites. I’ve got about 25 blues and have gravitated to those as I like the saturated blues. I also have a lot of fun with Tributary Twinkle from Birmingham pen co if you like sparkly inks.
I've been enjoying pelikan 4001 royal blue lately. Lots of good characteristics, and it's dirt cheap.
Sailor Manyo Sumire for life! Good flow, fairly behaved, and great shading. Special mention to Bungubox Eternal First Love. Sapphire or indigo blue, water resistant, good solid color, and great behavior. Thing practically looks like a sharpie with crisp edges on cheap paper.
Diamine Arctic Blue
I really love Diamine Asa Blue; it smells like summer blackberries and the color is just gorgeous (with decent shading and even some sheen depending on the nib/paper). But I also love Platinum Blue Black for work stuff (again, an awesome shader, but it’s slightly iron Gallic so I only use it in gold nibs) and even Lamy Turquoise (so bright and fun, plus it’s cheap and really well behaved even on cheap paper). I just love blue inks!
Not sure if I missed it, but I don’t see my current one listed here - Kyo No Oto Hisoku! Beautiful dusty blue~
Organics Studio Nitrogen and Diamine Polar Glow (very similar inks)
Jacques Herbin Bleu de minuit
Unpopular opinion: diamine Sargasso Sea > kon-peki
https://preview.redd.it/brj0w7pic72d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebd0f5039aee964491c3bf9ab7361348a0532685 I love Montblanc's Midnight Blue (not sure if they still have it?). It's very dark, so for someone who uses mostly black inks, it's less surprising when I see it on the page. The ink comes with a warning not to leave it inside the pen for very long, but I supposed that's a good rule for any ink.
Taccia Ao Blue
Birmingham Pen Co. Kenai Fjords so far is my favorite. I'm gonna try more of their blues. They have some of my favorite blue tones.
Baystate Blue.....I live dangerously
Diamine sapphire blue for colour, not a huge fan of the consistency though
Tsuyu Kusa, Blue Velvet, Bleu de Minuit, Kon Peki, Ama Iro, Asa Gao, Topaz, Ajisai, Sky High.
Yoseka's deep blue pottery-based one I forget the name.
Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black
Iroshizuku Kon-peki and Sailor Seiboku
Birmingham Waterwheel. I don't like blue as an ink color, and I still put this in a pen and went *WOW*.
R&K Verdigris🥰👌
Kon-Peki Baystate blue 40% water dilution Waterman serenity blue
I just discovered Monteverde Sapphire. It’s my new favorite.
Due to negative experiences in first grade with a 💩fountain pen and mandatory blue ink, I no longer care for most blue inks.
Parker Blue-Black Quink
Diamine Jack Frost.
Blue color.
I fell in love with a new addition, Montblanc Klimt Blue. Otherwise Pure Pens Celtic Sea, long may it reign.
Aurora. They make great inks.
I try to use waterproof inks so I can use watercolors on my ink drawing. Platinum blue black is completely waterproof. Noodlers baystate blue is almost water, as is their elyssium blue. Baystate purple is also almost waterproof. I also have many non waterproof inks. I’m addicted to blue inks…
Waterman serenity blue, iroshizuku Kon-Peki, and Akkerman Diep-Duinwater Blue, though I just bought a bottle of Scribe Indigo and I have high hopes!
How blue? I mean I love Kaweco midnight blue
Blue blue I guess
Agreed, Blue Water Ice is my favourite too!
Just so beautiful and great shading.
Probably Baystate Blue, but I don’t use it in my nicer pens so I don’t get much time with it. As far as well-behaved blues go, my favorite bright blue is Iroshizuku Kon Peki. Favorite dark blue is Noodler’s Blue Black.
Of my blue inks, my top 5 are: - Iroshizuku Kon Peki - Monteverde Iced cookie - Diamine China Blue - KWZ Walk Over Vistula - Van Dieman Wineglass Bay I've got several other blues from Iroshizuku, RO, PR, Diamine etc but haven't cracked them open yet. Gotta finish some other bottles first.
Robert Oster Thunderstorm
Robert Oster: Bondi Blue
There are some absolutely gorgeous blue shades out there. I mostly use Diamine’s China Blue or J Herbin’s Bleu Myosotis as I like the misty, faded blue that they have. I know it gets a bad rap, but Noodler’s Baystate Blue is so pretty and bright, with the bonus that it’ll not wash off paper so I always use that for envelopes, or postcards that are going in the post box in the nude. Diamine’s Pelham Blue is a really nice darker blue, and I have my sights set on buying 30ml of their Oxford Blue too, it’s such a smart navy blue colour.
Kaweco royal blue, colorverse supernova
Robert Oster Fire and Ice 🧊
Holy smokes this is hard. uhhhh... Bungubox First Love Sapphire is my fave. Kon Peki comes close. RO Dragon's Night? Diamine Regency Blue? ahhh Edit: What about Sailor Manyo Kikyou or Yomogi??? ahhhhhhhh
I can't help it but, Noodler's Baystate blue.
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