The Harmless Dilettante

My Digital Ink Sampler

2015-01-01T22:32:00.000-08:00

Total Reviews: 156; I've added at least 155 reviews of my bottled ink to date plus 1 ink sample review.

Total Scans: 127 Scans: 22 of bottled inks plus 105 of sample inks.

Total Inks scanned or reviewed: 283

Just click on the brand you're interested in to take you to the review links.

If you'd like a 1-2 MB picture, you can just click on the small post picture. A gigantic color corrected scan will follow. The full-sized image will depict more accurate representation of each ink color.

Aurora

Bexley

Caran d'Ache

Cross

De Atramentis

Diamine

Fahrney's

Higgins

J. Herbin

Lamy

Levenger

Montblanc

Monteverde

Namiki

Noodler's

Omas

Parker Penman

Parker Quink

Pelikan

Pilot

Platinum

Private Reserve

Rohrer Klingner

Sailor

Sheaffer

Smythson

Stipula

Swisher

Visconti

Waterman

Yard-o-Led

The Daily Quote: Monday

2012-01-09T00:01:00.000-08:00

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2012-01-08T00:01:00.000-08:00

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Mark Twain

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2012-01-07T00:01:00.000-08:00

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Winston Churchill

The Daily Quote: Friday

2012-01-06T00:01:00.000-08:00

Life is not becoming to everyone.

Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2012-01-05T00:01:00.000-08:00

Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It’s about insects. It will make you feel better.

David McCullough

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2012-01-04T00:01:00.000-08:00

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Stephen Fry

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2012-01-03T00:01:00.000-08:00

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.

John Bright

The Daily Quote: Monday

2012-01-02T00:01:00.000-08:00

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Dale Carnegie

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2012-01-01T00:01:00.000-08:00

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-12-31T00:01:00.000-08:00

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

Groucho Marx

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-12-30T00:01:00.000-08:00

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-12-29T00:01:00.000-08:00

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

John Lennon

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-12-28T00:01:00.000-08:00

(Describing a New York City cab ride)

If he had talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.

Dave Barry

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-12-27T00:01:00.000-08:00

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-12-26T00:01:00.000-08:00

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Mark Twain

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-12-25T00:01:00.000-08:00

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-12-24T00:01:00.001-08:00

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-12-23T00:01:00.001-08:00

I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.

Stephen Bishop

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-12-22T00:01:00.001-08:00

Alan Davies: I'm not as stupid as you think.

Stephen Fry: No, you're not. You couldn't be.

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-12-21T00:01:00.000-08:00

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Steven Wright

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-12-20T00:01:00.000-08:00

[Peter is receiving communion]

Peter Griffin: Wow, is that really the blood of Christ?

Preacher: Yes.

Peter Griffin: Wow, that guy must've been wasted 24 hours a day, huh?

From the Family Guy

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-12-19T00:01:00.000-08:00

[After David Tennant has answered a historical question correctly]

Alan Davies: It's all the time travel he does! He knows something about every era.

Stephen Fry: [cough] He's acting. [cough]

Bill Bailey: It's not real? [sounds agitated] What do you mean? What do you mean?

David Tennant: Don't listen to him. [glares at Stephen]

Stephen Fry: [raises a hand apologetically] I'm sorry!

Bill Bailey: [leans towards David] Don't tell me it's not real!

David Tennant: [whispering] Don't listen to the bad man!

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-12-18T00:01:00.000-08:00

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-12-17T00:01:00.000-08:00

Listen, someone's screaming in agony - fortunately I speak it fluently.

Spike Milligan

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-12-16T00:01:00.000-08:00

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-12-15T00:01:00.000-08:00

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-12-14T00:01:00.000-08:00

Adventure is just bad planning.

Roald Amundsen

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-12-13T00:01:00.000-08:00

(Stewie and Brian are trying to sleep in a motel, a drug deal is heard in the next room)

Drug Buyer: You got the stuff?

Drug Dealer: Yeah I got it, where's the money, huh? I wanna see the money.

Drug Buyer: No, no, no, you don't see the money 'till I see the stuff.

Stewie Griffin: Oh, for God's sake, there's only one way to put an end to this nuisance.

(yelling)

Stewie Griffin: HE'S WEARING A WIRE!

Drug Dealer: What? You son of a...

(gunshots are heard following by a "body drop" sound effect)

From The Family Guy

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-12-12T00:01:00.000-08:00

David Mitchell: [on the myth about the Brace position preserving dental records] I've heard that and frankly, I don't know why they don't just tell people. "In the unlikely event of the plane crashing, I think we can all agree, you'd like to be identified. Bite down as hard as you can on your own armrest."

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-12-11T00:01:00.000-08:00

Oliver Wendell Holmes' definition of history: One damned thing after another.

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-12-10T00:01:00.000-08:00

I love the way your mind works, Alan Davies … and I use the word "works" quite wrongly.

Stephen Fry

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-12-09T00:01:00.000-08:00

Ned Seagoon: Major, you're not going to run away from the enemy?

Major Dennis Bloodnok: Well, there's no point in running away from anyone else, is there?

The Goon Show

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-12-08T00:01:00.000-08:00

Rob Brydon: Friends of mine, back in Wales, quite a few of them have got Welsh - it's not a famous voice but it's a Welsh SatNav, which basically goes, you know -

Stephen Fry: In Welsh language?

Rob Brydon: No, no, no, just with Welsh attitude. Welsh approach to life. Or death. "Turning coming up now in about forty yards, get ready for it. Getting a bit closer now, get ready, here it comes. [with utter disappointment] Ohh, you plank! You've missed it. [bored, motioning with his finger] Now, do a u-ie, do a u-ie. Do it! No - don't - oh, [cynical] pull over, attach a hose pipe to the exhaust and just end it all."

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-12-07T00:01:00.000-08:00

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-12-06T00:01:00.000-08:00

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into other actors.

Cary Grant

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-12-05T00:01:00.000-08:00

Stephen Fry: [while explaining about the formula used to determine the number of times a paper could be folded] … what you need is length and thickness.

Alan Davies: That will get ripped off and straight onto YouTube. That will also become a ringtone. "What you need is length and thickness." [mimes accepting a call] "Hello?"

Stephen Fry: Damn you all. You want--

Alan Davies: And that'll be for text messages.

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-12-04T00:01:00.000-08:00

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-12-03T00:01:00.000-08:00

[On swimming with dolphins]

Ross Noble: If you see proper wild dolphins, they've got lumps out of them, and bits missing, and they fight… I just love the idea that people are just going: "Oh, this amazing experience"…

Stephen Fry: …Those serene and mystical and lyrical…

Ross Noble: …When actually it's just like being chucked in with a bunch of wet skinheads.

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-12-02T00:01:00.000-08:00

Peter Griffin: Gays don't vomit. They're a very clean people. And they've been that way ever since they came over to this country from France.

from The Family Guy

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-12-01T00:01:00.000-08:00

There's a great story about Conan Doyle, actually. One day just for a joke, he wrote a note saying, 'We are discovered. Flee immediately,' and he sent it to five of his friends to see what they would do. And one of them disappeared.

Jo Brand

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-11-30T00:01:00.000-08:00

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

David Letterman

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-11-29T00:01:00.000-08:00

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Woodrow Wilson

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-11-28T00:01:00.000-08:00

Rich Hall: They say that a friend will come over to your house and help you move, and a good friend will help you move a body.

Stephen Fry: That's good. That's...

Rich Hall: ...I have two good friends.

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-11-27T00:01:00.000-08:00

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Mark Twain

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-11-26T00:01:00.000-08:00

Peter Griffin: I've been watching television so much the shows are starting to run together.

Announcer: [for Homicide: Life on Sesame Street] This show contains adult content, and is brought to you by the letter H.

Bert: [answering phone] Hello? Son of a bitch. I'm on my way.

[gets out of bed and gets dressed]

Bert: Some poor bastard got his head blown off down at a place called Hooper's.

Ernie: Bert, I wish you wouldn't drink so much, Bert.

Bert: Well, Ernie, I wish you wouldn't eat cookies in the *damn* bed.

Ernie: Bert, you're shouting again, Bert.

From The Family Guy

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-11-25T00:01:00.000-08:00

Grytpype-Thynne: Neddy, how would you like £40,000?

Seagoon: In money.

Grytpype-Thynne: Gad, you drive a hard bargain.

The Goon Show

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-11-24T00:01:00.000-08:00

Watch out, I have a Magic Wand.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Diamine Inks

2011-11-23T18:11:00.000-08:00

Diamine also manufactures inks for Yard O'Led and Smythson

You can View swatches of all of these inks at the Diamine Website Fountain Pen Inks Page.

Amaranth

Amazing Amethyst

Amber

Aqua Blue

Asa Blue

Blaze Orange

Blue-Black

Brilliant Red

Burnt Sienna

Cerise

China Blue

Chocolate Brown

Claret

Classic Red

Coral

Crimson (New Formulation)

Damson

Dark Brown

Dark Green

Deep Magenta

Delamere Green

Denim

Eclipse

Emerald

Evergreen

Flamingo Pink

Florida Blue

Golden Brown

Graphite

Green/Black

Grey

Havasu Turquoise

Hope Pink

Imperial Blue

Imperial Purple

Indigo

Jade Green

Jet Black

Kelly Green

Kensington Blue

Lavender

Light Green

Macassar

Majestic Blue

Majestic Purple

Marine

Maroon

Meadow

Mediterranean Blue

Midnight

Monaco Red

Onyx Black

Orange

Oxblood

Passion Red

Pink

Poppy Red

Presidential Blue

Prussian Blue

Pumpkin

Quartz Black

Raw Sienna

Red Dragon

Registrars Blue-Black

Royal Blue

Ruby

Rustic Brown

Saddle Brown

Sapphire Blue

Scarlet

Sepia

Sherwood Green

Steel Blue

Sunshine Yellow

Syrah

Teal

Turquoise

Twilight

Ultra Green

Umber

Vermillion

Violet

Washable Blue

Wild Strawberry

WES Kensington Blue

W.E.S Imperial Blue

Woodland Green

Yellow

Yard-o-Led inks are made by Diamine and are the same colors.
From Wikipedia's Fountain Pen Inks Entry

Diamine's Website also lists their Calligraphy inks which are Acrylic or Pigment based and not safe for fountain pen use.

Sailor Inks

2011-11-23T18:03:00.000-08:00

Black

Blue

Blue Black

Brown

Gray

Green

Light Blue

Purple

Red

Red Black

Red Brown

Yellow/Orange

Nano Inks

Blue Black (Sei Boko Nano Carbon Blue Black Waterproof Pigmented Ink)

Ultra Black (Kiwa-Guro Nano Carbon Black Waterproof Pigmented Ink)

Sailor Jentle Bottled Fountain Pen Ink: Limited Winter Edition 2010

Apricot (Orange)

Epinard (Green)

Grenade (Maroon)

Irori (Red)

Peche (Pink)

Shigure (Purple)

Tokiwa-Mastu (Green)

Yuki-Akari (Turquoise)

Muruai (Blue Sea Pine)

Sky High (Light Blue)

Ultra Marine (Blue)

Sailor Huogadar Pen Gallery Custom Inks
Deep Indigo Blue Black
Deep Rust Black
Deep Moss Black
Bocchan Blue
Madonna Purple
Modaiko Violet
Uranari Green
Yamaarashi Sepis
The Redshirt

Sailor Nagasawa Pen Style Kobe Monogatari LE Inks
Green Rokko
Blue On the Waterfront
Sepia Old Settlement
Red Kitano Ijinkan
Black Dong
Bordeaux Kobe
Blue Channel
Amber Arima
Purple Suma
Greg Mikage
Ikuta Orange
Pink Okamoto
Emerald Nunobiki
Lapis Maya
Green Maiko
Brown Nada
Blue Shioya
Pensee Sannomiva
Minotogawa Lime
Motomacho Rose
Yellow
Gold Frontier

The regular Sailor inks can be purchased at Classic Fountain Pens, Inc. and Swisher Pens. The Nano inks can be purchased at Jet Pens. All but the Muruai Limited Winter Edition 2010 Inks are available in the U.S. at Swisher Pens. The Sailor Huogadar Pen Gallery Custom Inks and the Sailor Nagasawa Pen Style Kobe Monogatari LE Inks appear to be available only in Japan.

Noodler's Inks

2011-11-23T17:58:00.000-08:00

Air Corp Blue Black*

American Eel Blue

American Eel Cactus Fruit

American Eel Green Cactus

American Eel Goulet Purple Heart

American Eel Rattler Red

American Eel Turquoise

Antietam

Apache Sunset

Army

Art Brown Brooklyn Brawn

Art Brown Manhattan Blue

Art Brown Pinstripe Homage

Art Brown Subway Series Sepia

Baystate Blue

Baystate Cape Cod Cranberry

Baystate Concord Grape

Beaver

Bernanke Black

Bernanke Blue

Blackerase (White Board Ink)

Black Mamba (for felt tipped pens only)

Black Swan in Australian Roses

Black Swan in English Roses

Blue

Bluerase (White Board Ink)

Blue Nose Bear

Blue-Black*

Borealis Black

Boston Brahmin Blue

Brown*

Burgundy

Cayenne

Concord Bream

Dark Matter

Dragon's Napalm

Dromgoole's Raven

Dromgoole's Texas Patriot (for the Dallas Pen Show)

Dromgoole's The Alamo's Twilight

Electric Color Series (Highlighting Ink) Atlantic Salmon

Electric Color Series (Highlighting Ink) Firefly

Electric Color Series (Highlighting Ink) Georgia Peach

Electric Color Series (Highlighting Ink) Hellfire

Electric Color Series (Highlighting Ink) Lightning Blue

Electric Color Series (Highlighting Ink) St. Patty's Eire

Electric Color Series (Highlighting Ink) Sunrise

Forest Green

Fountain Pen Hospital Old Dutch Sepia

Fountain Pen Network Dumas Tulipe Noire

Fountain Pen Network Gogh Starry Night

Golden Brown*

Green

Green Marine *

Gruene Cactus

Habanero

Jet Pens White Peacock (Not Fountain Pen Safe)

Kiowa Pecan*

La Coleur Royale

Midnight Blue

Missing Pen Das Verschollene Grun

Navajo Turquoise

Navy*

Nightshade

Nikita

Ottoman Azure

Ottoman Rose

Purple

Purple Martin

Purple Wampum

Red

Red Black*

Saguaro Wine

Sequoia Green

Shah's Rose

Squeteague

Summer Tanager

Swisher Pens Antigua Blue

Swisher Pens Apricot Orange

Swisher Pens Blue-Black

Swisher Pens Cocoa

Swisher Pens Dark Purple

Swisher Pens Emerald Green

Swisher Pens Intense Red

Swisher Pens Maroon

Swisher Pens Midnight Black

Swisher Pens Nantucket Blue

Swisher Pens North Sea Blue

Swisher Pens Quick Lime

Swisher Pens St. Elmo's Fire

Swisher Pens Yellow

Tiananmen

Turquoise

Violet

V-Mail Burma Brown Road

V-Mail GI Green (Reformulated in Late 2009/Early 2010)

V-Mail Mandalay Maroon

V-Mail Midway Blue

V-Mail North African Violet

V-Mail Operation Overlord Orange

V-Mail Rabaul Red

Walnut*

Widow Maker

World Lux Emerald City Green (I don't think this is an Eternal, but I'm not sure)

Yellow

Zhivago*

Waterproof, Eternal and Bulletproof Inks

#41 Brown (No scan, just some info from Swisher's)

American Eel Black (May be the same as Polar Black)

Art Brown Legal Blue (contract ink)

Australia Ayers Amber

Australian Catalpa Sepia (Not sure if it's regular, waterproof or other)

Australia Coral Sea

Black

Blue Ghost

Canada Blue Upon the Plains of Abraham

China Expeditionary Force 1944 Blue

China Kung Te-Cheng (Recommended For Use Only With Pens Included In Package)

China Year of the Golden Ghost

China Year of the Golden Pig

Dragon Catfish Highlighting Ink Green (not fountain pen safe)

Dragon Catfish Highlighting Ink Pink (not fountain pen safe)

Dragon Catfish Highlighting Ink Orange (not fountain pen safe)

Dromgoole's Texas Blue Bonnet

Dromgoole's Texas Live Oak

Dromgoole's Texas Pecan

Fox Red

Fountain Pen Hospital Bank Note Green

Fountain Pen Hospital Ellis Island Blue-Black

Fountain Pen Hospital Henry Hudson Blue

Fountain Pen Hospital Old Manhattan

Fountain Pen Network Galileo Manuscript Brown

Germany Prussian Blue

Heart of Darkness

Hunter Green

India Upper Ganges Blue

Japan Kanazawa Wave

Jet Pens Manjiro Nakahama Whaleman's Sepia

La Reine Mauve

Lexington Gray

Luxury Blue

Missing Pen The Iron Chancellor

Pendemonium Eternal Brown

Pendemonium Iraqi Indigo

Pendemonium Legal Lapis

Pendemonium Violet Vote

Periwinkle

Polar Black, New

Polar Black (Original Formula)

Polar Blue

Polar Brown (Reformulated in 2011)

Polar Green (This link is to Noodler's site.)

Russia Akhmatova

Russia Chekhov

Russia Dostoevsky

Russia Esenin

Russia Kuprin

Russia Lermontov

Russia Pasternak

Russia Pushkin

Russia Rachmaninov

Russia Tchaikovsky

Russia Tolstoy

Russia Tsvetayeva

Singapore Esplanade

Singapore Honourable Blue

Singapore Judicial Black

Singapore Lotus Grace

Singapore Majestic Orange

Singapore Peranakan Brown

Singapore Samsui Red

Singapore Sentosa Tranquility

Singapore Sepia

Singapore Sling

Singapore Spirit of Bamboo

Singapore Vanda Miss Joachim

South African Isandlwana

South African Nairobi Noon

Sweden Stockholm Indigo

Swisher Pens Swishmix Burgundy

Swisher Pens Swishmix Glacier Blue

Swisher Pens Swishmix Lakeshore Spruce

Swisher Pens Swishmix Nile Ebony

Swisher Pens Swishmix Royal Aztec

Swisher Pens Swishmix Seminole Sepia

Swisher Pens Swishmix Tahitian Pearl

Swisher Pens Swishmix True Rouge

Swisher Pens Waterproof Aquamarine

Swisher Pens Waterproof Devil Red

Swisher Pens Waterproof Goldfinch

Swisher Pens Waterproof Grizzly

Swisher Pens Waterproof Gulf Stream Blue

Swisher Pens Waterproof Hellbender Red

Swisher Pens Waterproof Naval Orange

Swisher Pens Waterproof Verdun Green

Taiwan Black Strait

Taiwan Fort Zeelandia

Taiwan Mazu

The Color of the King (Only 10 bottles made for the Raliegh 2004 Pen Show)

U.K. Britannia's Blue Waves

U.K. El Lawrence

U.K. Empire Red

U.K. Highland Heather

U.K. Mati Hari's Cordial

U.K. Prime of the Commons

U.K. Socrates

U.K. The Sun Never Sets

U.K. Victoria's Mint

Warden's Bad Belted Kingfisher

Warden's Bad Black Moccasin

Warden's Bad Blue Heron

Warden's Bad Green Gator

Whiteness of the Whale

X-Feather Black

*This ink has been designated "Near Bulletproof." "Near Bulletproof" is a term used on The Fountain Pen Network's Waterproof Ink List. You can find it here.

If you'd like to see what the bottles and labels look like Jet Pens' got pictures of most of these inks, albeit oddly and randomly rotated. Pendamonium in Australia also has pictures of the bottles or labels of each of the Noodler's inks that they carry.

Jet Pens is also the only store which has Noodler's divided into "Standard" and "Specialty" issue inks, (as well as the usual Eternal, Electric Color. etc. )Noodler's has included an insert in their packaging that categorizes their inks this way as well. If anyone knows how or why this distinction is made I'd love to hear it.

I've divided Noodler's inks into just two categories: Regular ink and Eternal Ink. Some of Noodler's regular inks have been upgraded to "near bulletproof," on the Fountain Pen Network. So, I've noted that with * by their names in the regular ink section.

Noodler's Website

This insert came with the bottle of Kung Te-Cheng that I received from Jet Pens in July 2010.

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-11-23T00:01:00.000-08:00

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

Pilot Inks

2011-11-22T12:21:00.000-08:00

Standard Fountain Pen Inks

Black

Blue

Blue Black

Iroshizuku Inks*

Ajisai Hydrangea (Vivid Bluish Purple)

Asa-gao Morning Glory (Vivid Purplish Blue)

Chiku-rin (New for 2011, Light Green)

Edo-Murasaki (Limited Edition)

Fuyu-gaki Japanese Sweet Persimmon Red (Vermilion)

Fuyu-syogun General Frost (Bluish Dark Gray)

Ina-ho (New for 2011, Brown with Green tones)

Kiri-same Misty Rain (Misty Dark Gray)

Kon-peki Deep Ocean Blue (Deep Blue)

Kosumosu (New for 2011, Rose)

Ku-jaku Peacock (Deep Turquoise)

Momiji Autumn Leaves (Vermillion)

Murasaki-shikibu (New for 2011, Violet Blue)

Syo-ro Pine Tree Dew (Dark Turquoise)

Shin-ryoku Deep Forest Green (Deep Green)

Tsuki-yo Night Sky (Greenish Deep Blue)

Tsukushi Field Horsetail Brown (Reddish Dark Brown)

Tsutsuji Azalea (Deep Pink)

Tsuyu-kusa Day Flower (Deep Blue)

Yama Budo Wild Grapes (Bordeaux)

Yama-guri Wild Chestnut Brown (Dark Brown)

Yu-yake Sunset (Burnt Orange)

Mixable Color (For Pilot Parallel Calligraphy Pens, Available in Cartridges Only)**

Black

Blue

Blue-Black

Green

Light Green

Orange

Pink

Red

Sepia

Turquoise

Violet

Yellow

Pilot Petit 1 Mini Fountain Pen Refill Capsule (Cartridges Only)**

Apple Green

Apricot

Baby Pink

Black

Blue

Blue Black

Brown

Cherry Pink

Clear Blue

Cobalt Blue

Dark Green

Mandarin Orange

Red

Violet

Wine Red

*Available in the U.S. at Art Brown, Jet Pens, Swisher Pens and probably others at this point.

**Available from Jet Pens

Platinum Inks

2011-11-22T11:52:00.000-08:00

Black

Blue (Discontinued?)

Blue Black

Brun Sepia (Discontinued?)

Carbon Black

Green (Discontinued?)

Pigmented Blue

Red

Mix-Free

Aqua Blue

Aurora Blue

Cyclamen Pink

Earth Brown

Flame Red

Leaf Green

Silky Purple

Smoke Black

Sunny Yellow

Preppy Highlighter Ink (Cartridges Only)

Blue

Green

Orange

Pink

Yellow

Preppy Marker and Fountain Pen Ink (Cartridges Only)

Black

Blue

Blue Black

Brown

Green

Pink

Purple

Red

Yellow

Platinum's Ink Website

(All Preppy cartridges and Platinum bottled and cartridge ink are available from Jet Pens. Regular and Carbon inks are available from Swisher Pens and Art Brown. There are probably other dealers, these are just three I've purchased from before.))

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-11-22T00:01:00.000-08:00

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.

Bono

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-11-21T00:01:00.000-08:00

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Eric Hoffer

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-11-20T00:01:00.000-08:00

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-11-19T00:01:00.000-08:00

How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

Steven Wright

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-11-18T00:01:00.000-08:00

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.

Geoff Arbuthnot

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-11-17T00:01:00.000-08:00

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Oscar Wilde

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-11-16T00:01:00.000-08:00

Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?

Spike Milligan

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-11-15T00:01:00.000-08:00

Peter Griffin: People make up lies all the time. You know Vietnam? Never happened.

Brian Griffin: Yeah, but don't mention it around the Veteran's Hospital. Those guys are really committed to the lie.

from The Family Guy

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-11-14T00:01:00.000-08:00

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-11-13T00:01:00.000-08:00

He had delusions of adequacy.

Walter Kerr

The Walter Kerr Memorial Garden

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-11-12T10:18:00.000-08:00

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.

Paul Keating

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-11-11T12:15:00.000-08:00

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-11-10T22:16:00.000-08:00

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-11-09T12:01:00.000-08:00

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second.... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-11-08T11:58:00.000-08:00

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-11-07T22:19:00.004-08:00

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

Forrest Tucker

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-11-06T17:14:00.000-08:00

What's another word for Thesaurus?

Steven Wright

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-11-05T19:14:00.000-07:00

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Moses Hadas (1900–66)

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-11-04T20:11:00.000-07:00

Spriggs: I'll write that down. E-Z-L-X-Q. Drat this pen! It can't spell.

Seagoon: Wait a minute, perhaps it's the ink that can't spell.

The Goon Show

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-11-03T17:56:00.000-07:00

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-11-02T22:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday the Iraqis and U.S. troops pulled down a giant statue of Saddam Hussein. They pull it down and it lands right on top of Geraldo.

David Letterman

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-11-01T19:32:00.000-07:00

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-10-31T00:01:00.000-07:00

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.... We need believing people.

Adolf Hitler

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-10-30T00:01:00.001-07:00

Peter Griffin: [in Sunday School with several children during story time] And when you die, you go to a wonderful place called heaven [children gasp in delight, Peter starts laughing]

Peter Griffin: Nah, I'm just jackin' ya, you'll all rot in the ground. [children look horrified]

From The Family Guy

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-10-29T00:01:00.000-07:00

I turned and rubbed my hands with glee. I always keep a tin of glee handy.

Spike Milligan

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-10-28T00:01:00.000-07:00

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-10-27T00:01:00.000-07:00

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-10-26T00:01:00.000-07:00

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

George Carlin

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-10-25T00:01:00.000-07:00

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

James M. Barrie

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-10-24T00:01:00.000-07:00

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Willem de Kooning

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-10-23T00:01:00.000-07:00

If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.

Dave Barry

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-10-22T00:01:00.000-07:00

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Olin Miller

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-10-21T00:01:00.000-07:00

Meg Griffin: Can you please teach me how to drive?
Brian Griffin: Meg, you might want to find a better driver then Peter.
Peter Griffin: What are you talking about? I'm a great driver.
Brian Griffin: Oh, yeah. Remember your trip to the Southwest.

Flashback
Roadrunner: Meep Meep.

Peter's car runs over him

Brian Griffin: Oh my God. Did I just hit that ostrich?
Wile E. Coyote: No.
Peter Griffin: Are you sure?
Wile E. Coyote: Yeah. Keep going.

from The Family Guy

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-10-20T00:01:00.000-07:00

Room service? Send up a larger room.

Groucho Marx

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-10-19T00:01:00.000-07:00

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Bertrand Russell

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-10-18T00:01:00.000-07:00

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-10-17T00:01:00.000-07:00

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-10-16T00:01:00.000-07:00

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.

Bill Maher

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-10-15T00:01:00.000-07:00

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, “Is there a play from Shaw this morning?” and when she says, “No,” he will say, “Well, then we’ll have to start on the rubbish.” And that’s your chance, my boy.

George Bernard Shaw, Advice to a young playwright

The Daily Quote: Friday

2011-10-14T00:01:00.000-07:00

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Clive James

The Daily Quote: Thursday

2011-10-13T00:01:00.000-07:00

It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in all periods of time.

Louis L'Amour

The Daily Quote: Wednesday

2011-10-12T00:01:00.000-07:00

Neddie Seagoon: Major, you're not going to run away from the enemy?

Major Dennis Bloodnok: Well, there's no point in running away from anyone else, is there?

The Goon Show

The Daily Quote: Tuesday

2011-10-11T00:01:00.000-07:00

Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

Steven Wright

The Daily Quote: Monday

2011-10-10T00:01:00.000-07:00

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Thomas Sowell

The Daily Quote: Sunday

2011-10-09T00:01:00.000-07:00

[Peter saw Lois in a coffee shop talking with her old college boyfriend]

Peter Griffin: I saw you in that coffee shop, breaking the fifth commandment. Congress passes these things for a reason, Lois.

From the Family Guy

The Daily Quote: Saturday

2011-10-08T00:01:00.000-07:00

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

Spike Milligan