Do You Have A Signature Ink?
05/04/2013There is little in life that is more unique than a signature. Unlike fingerprints that are immutable from birth, we get to choose the color by which we are best known as well as the design (signature) by which we are most easily recognized. As testament, my parents have been gone many years but I can still picture their signatures quite vividly. So much else has faded but not that.
Using a real pen with real ink to sign documents may eventually go the way of the dodo bird. Until then, what do you choose in all of inkdom to make your signature memorable? If I had a bottle, Pendemonium‘s Noodler’s Legal Lapis would be mine. In its absence, Noodler’s Ottoman Azure or Diamine Mediterranean Blue will do.
Noodler’s Ottoman Azure with a Brause dip nib and Diamine Mediterranean Blue in a Platinum #3776 Music nib doodled on Clairefontaine GraF it 90g Sketch paper. It has a slightly rough surface well suited to pencil sketching but a little less ideal for pen use. I like the way ink skips over the paper and enjoy the break from perfection found with more fountain pen friendly paper.
The ink I like and use most is Diamine Teal — but I wish Noodler’s made a Polar/Bulletproof ink of EXACTLY that shade: not nearly, but EXACTLY.
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by kategladstone 05/04/2013 at 1:13 pmLeaning toward Ku Jaku in a Visconti stub
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by Beth Treadway Author (@BethAuthor) 05/04/2013 at 3:36 pmNoodler’s Bad Blue Heron
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by Dan 05/04/2013 at 6:54 pmNoodler’s Bay State Blue
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by Bob Soltys - twitter.com/BlkWhiteFilmPix 05/05/2013 at 7:16 amDiamine Indigo, because it remind me of Junior school aged 9 or 10 and mixing Stepens blue-black powdered ink in an enamel jug and filling the classes inkwells (and that was in the 1959’s)
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by Dale Arm-Riding 05/05/2013 at 2:32 pmRohrer & Klingner Scabiosa in my Lamy Studio (violet), various nibs, currently an M
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by Tanja (@tannieo) 05/05/2013 at 3:00 pmJ. H. Rouille d’Ancre with a handblown Venetian glass dip pen. It’s such a strange color I can’t help but love it, but the shading doesn’t show up well in my Safari Fine.
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by chrom3heart 05/05/2013 at 4:30 pmI’m with you–Noodler’s Legal Lapis, at least for routine things like legal documents and checks. For my real (ornamental Spencerian) signature, McCaffery’s Penman’s black with a Nikko G nib in an oblique holder made by Mike Sull.
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by Joseph 05/06/2013 at 4:44 amSailor Jentle Blue.
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by Alejandro Morales 05/07/2013 at 2:24 pmSo many different signature inks. Such a diverse and unique group of writers!
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by inkophile 05/07/2013 at 8:06 pm[…] Do You Have A Signature Ink? […]
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by Just another pen ?!Blick über den Tellerrand vom 11. May 2013 » Just another pen ?! 05/11/2013 at 7:49 amYes. I’m known for signing my name in Diamine Pumpkin. If its orange, they know its an original copy.
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by Chris Callahan 06/08/2013 at 7:41 amWhat a striking color for a signature!
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by inkophile 06/08/2013 at 11:00 am