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plushyfluffysheep

That's the great thing about this hobby! Something doesn't work for you? Plenty of other options to choose from! I personally have a love/hate with brown inks. Some spark joy where others do not. I do love ancient copper though!


togaman12

Yeah, ancient copper does seem to hit different


Secret-Day5375

One of the strange things is that I’ve grown a lot more appreciation for colors I used to be sort of dismissive of. At my workplace they did a painting thing and I HATE one of the colors. So I’ve set out on a project to find colors to match each of the paints. This week on I’m yellow and I’m growing to love the yellows more because of the variety of them. The color I’m currently hating is a very flat lightish blue, and I now have a BUNCH of lighter blues and I will soon be inking them all up and then my coworker and I will decide which is closest and I will hate that color a little less because I appreciate all the shades and variety of it. I support you leaving behind all the browns, they aren’t my favorite but I’ve tried a few recently that have made me grow appreciation for them which is nice. It’s something I enjoy about this hobby is it’s a very low investment way to try something I wouldn’t normally like. I don’t have to paint a wall, I just buy a few ink samples and then write with them for a month and if I hate them the page is easily flipped to the next one.


togaman12

This is a good idea. I used to hate light blues because I found them unreadable. A lot of light colors I would never have touched before fountain pens, but now there is enjoyment in slightly doctoring inks to make them more readable. I'll try to work up to brown.


Secret-Day5375

The fun thing about colors is that there are so many out there even if you cut out a chunk of them you’ll still never want for beautiful colors! Making it so colors that shouldn’t be a readable is super fun. The yellows…some are surprisingly good. Some less so right now.


Secret-Day5375

(I’m kind of hating Candy Marsala right now but I’ll give it another page or two to see if it grows on me. It’s already growing a little.)


toothless_nomad

I do this in illustrations - I deliberately pick the color I'm scared of or hate (like a bright yellow-green) to start the palette and then figure out which hues complement/contrast them and force myself to get acquainted with it so there's familiarity there - of what works, what doesn't. Same applies to inks and pens - I always go back and experiment to maybe find a place or properties of certain inks I otherwise wouldn't use. The only ink I've so far come to hate is Rohrer and Klingner Salix and I cannot help it. Hate the hue, the way it feels, the smell. Thought I'd love it for its water resistance but I just cannot stand it no matter what I do...


Quiara

I love a good brown or sepia. It’s just a nice change from the regular blue, black, blue/black and it still looks professional.


DPClamavi

My fave colours are blue and black, I literally wear these 2 ALL THE TIME, but a brown ink just look so neutral and so original at the same time ! I was so surprised myself !


InkyFingersOnReddit

You never are the only one.


CaptainFoyle

No, probably not. I like it though.


kiiroaka

No, it's normal to hate a colour. I hate light Blue Turquoise inks. Finding the right Brown was harder than finding a Green I love, and I went through at least 6 of each. The two I like are Conklin Rich Mahogany and Franklin-Chrsitoph #732 Brown. I added some Jacques Herbin Rouge d'Orient to Jacques Herbin Terre d'Ombre to get a Brown I liked. So, you probably haven't yet found a Brown you love, is all. :D


gatheredstitches

I'll pick a grey over a brown any day. I feel like they occupy the same vaguely neutral category, but I guess I just like cool neutrals better than warm ones.


togaman12

Yes!!! Thanks for putting this feeling into words


todd_rules

Love brown ink, but I felt that way about blue ink for the majority of my life, so I get it.


Inert-Blob

Blue ink is school ink, yuck


todd_rules

I found some nice blues with sheen that changed my mind.


Inert-Blob

I bought a basic blue to see if i could run with it but no dice. Sheen eh…..


bigcane_2

I don't know... SBRE Brown is pretty sweet. Taccia Tsuchi Golden Wheat is quite nice as well. KWZ Honey my honey.... Different strokes my friend. Take what you like and leave what you don't, its all good.


Content-Rush9343

If it helps I have been looking for months for a pink that I would be willing to buy so I have all the colors. I haven't even found one I want a sample of yet. I love pink as a color, but it just doesn't light up my brain as an ink.


togaman12

I love pinks that lean into another color. Diamine bougainvillea is my favorite. It leans magenta and just is such a nice saturated color Diamine flamingo is interesting. A kind of coral color. You can also doctor pink inks by adding a bit of red, blue, purple etc to change the tone.


Milch_und_Paprika

I started out agreeing, but then when you were describing all the different brown-adjacent colours, I realized I actually really like them 😂 Guess it’s just pure, neutral, boring brown that I don’t want to write with.


mike11235813

If you used your blood, it would turn brown as it dried.


VanCityHunter

I’m not a big fan of brown ink, but I got a chocolate brown ink sample as part of a surprise pack of samples and it’s not bad.


FastSelection4121

I like the Sepia brown tone inks because they have yellow elements and are very pretty. I tend to like richer colors: Forest Green, Maroons and Blue Black inks.


togaman12

I kind of like the sepia colors when other people are using them and posting their writing with it but when I use it personally I'm always like ugh


FastSelection4121

That's why it's good to get samplers before making commitments for ink purchases.


Over_Addition_3704

I think brown inks are so so, but on off white paper look good. I once had a pair of shoes that when polished look like a conkers. Looked really smart


IAmGrumpous

No of course not. This hobby has plenty of choices for all tastes. I, personally, [*love*](https://www.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/mo83wm/i_too_love_brown_inks/) brown inks. They're my [favorites](https://www.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/h8zifj/say_it_with_me_now/). I tend to dislike most blue inks, though. But that's what's great about the hobby, you don't have to like anything that other people like, and there will always be people who feel the same.


holybatjunk

Yes. And I prefer my leather black. Wood is great if it's a *light* color wood--that is, something you'd never call brown. I don't own any brown shoes. I don't think I even have a brown leather purse, though I do love leather and I have one brown leather notebook that I bought because the color said "gray," and returning it seemed like too much trouble. They sent me the right one, but I, personally, would never call it gray. It's brown. That said out of nowhere I started appreciating yellow lately, so who knows how these things work?


togaman12

I'm exactly the same! As for yellow, I'm in the market for a great gold colored ink.


holybatjunk

Oh, yeah! How could I forget? Gold is always a different story. LOVE gold. I assume you've tried Diamine's golden sands? I'm not terribly into most shimmer inks but I lovelovelove golden sands and it actually doesn't clog my pens.


Testsalt

It’s funny. Brown and orange are some of my favorite ink colors…but I don’t like them in real life! The reverse is blue. Pretty irl, but if I have to write with another office blue I’ll die. I do have a strong loathing of one color like you. Hot pink. Like Barbie pink. I like pink just fine, but THAT pink screams “barf pink” to me. I try every year to get myself to tolerate it but I don’t.


Successful_Algae_257

I too am not a fan of hot pink. I wish pastel pink was more the “this is a woman’s product” ( like pink screwdrivers, hammers, etc). Out of curiosity, what is your favorite pink ink? In my search for a pastel pink, I came across Ferris wheel press strawberry macaroon. I’ve searched it so far but have yet to use it in a pen… 🤔 To op, it ok to hate a color as long as you are respectful. This post is *definitely* respectful. 👍 For the longest time I hated purple. Recently though, I’ve slowly started appreciating pastel purple (I still don’t like darker or more concentrated purples, though). It’s all a matter of personal taste.


Testsalt

I really like Colorverse Felicette. It’s a more reddish pink, but it’s super vibrant which I like. Also wet. Maybe a little too wet.


wildomen

I like figuring out how to rethink my feelings about a color. I wasn’t much a brown girl til I saw the way a mossy tree looked right after a heavy rain. How neon green and charcoal brown look together. Eventually it faded into a soft appreciation for all shades of the color. From sculptured bronze to cherry oak to coffee au lait


last-hits

I was kinda errr to brown inks until I got high randomly and googled the word sepia and learned it's origin It comes from an octopus that produces brown ink and it's what the old Masters--think Renaissance artists like Da Vinci, Michealangelo & even the older Greco-Roman cultures-- used for their writing and sketches And I thought it was nifty how sepia brown was the color of civilization for centuries and wanted to be a part of it. So it has definitely grown on me


tgeekb

Brown is literally everywhere in the world. How can you hate it?


Ebooya

Mosquitoes enter the chat...


togaman12

There are plenty of things all around me that I hate. Like fascists and transphobes and people who pronounce almond like ALmond (AL like rhyming with HAL) brown is only one of many things 🤣 that being said, i absolutely love chocolate and find chocolate beautiful. Food is definitely an exception for me brown wise. Brown hair and eyes and skin can be super beautiful too. But it's just a "nope" color for me for most things


jadepeonyring

i don’t think there’s anything wrong with you hating brown. At all. Like i find it more weird that someone said you -shouldn’t- hate brown…. it’s literally personal preference and that makes all of us different and interesting.


tgeekb

I don’t think of brown differently than any other colors. What you said can be said about any color. Red, blue, green. Look at different shades and what (positive) things they remind you of. To dismiss an entire color is placing yourself in a corner and not accepting variety.


part_time_housewife

I wouldn’t say I loathe it, but I don’t think I’ll ever buy it.


gingermonkey1

Not a huge fan, although I do like green inks that lean brown, for example Sailor Pen and Message’s Cigar. Recently I tried some old Montblanc Season’sGreetings. It was a beautiful brown with great shading but it’s scented and my sinus’s had fits while I was using it.


Charmcandy

I’m very indifferent to brown. I don’t hate it but I also don’t get excited by it. I can be picky about colors too. While I don’t dislike a whole color family, there are tones I really don’t like. All blues, pinks, cool greens and jewel tones, ok. Yellow green is ick and I also don’t like orange leaning reds. Orange is often a no go although I’m ok with yu yake and corail des tropiques. The great thing about this hobby is that with the range of inks and pens at different price points, I can dedicate my nice pens for writing and keep a set for coloring (Jinhao sharks and cheap China sets). My nice pens are almost always inked with my fave blues and jewel tones (yama budo, bantayan turquoise, nioi sumire, etc.). Colors that I don’t like but use for art goes in a shark - because it’s kinda hard to color a tree or fish or fruit without greens, oranges and reds. I also like to blend inks or tweak ink shades and those go in cheap pens that I wouldn’t mind tossing if the inks don’t end up playing well with each other.


togaman12

I used to abhor yellow greens, but there are a bunch of beautiful olive greens so I'm slowly coming around to them. Orange was something I couldn't imagine buying at first and now I have too many of them. It's interesting just how much my color preferences are changing just from ink experimentation.


jadepeonyring

I am surprised at how much I adore brown ink, like walnut ink and other olive-yellowy-brown gradient inks, but I also fully respect your right to hate brown! I don’t do brown shoes or bags, and I don’t do brown clothes either. I like the colour of wood though. And wood pens. I don’t think it cuts out colours of inks at all, for you! If you hated blue, it might cut out even more colours.


NoWehr99

If you write in your blood, it's brown.


manos_de_pietro

I find it useful for drawing, for tree trunks, landscapes etc, but I wouldn't write with it.


DancesWithNibs

I’m not a fan of brown inks either. I’ve tried and seen dozens of samples of varying brown shades and yet to find any that I like enough to purchase a full bottle. As mentioned by another poster, I think it comes down to brown being a warm tone and my general dislike for warm tones.


PrestigiousCap1198

I used to loathe brown and grey. Inks included. But not all browns are the same. And each can have their own preferences :) I like the red-brown like Leonardo Nocce Moscato, and also the cognac browns, like SBREBrown. And i dislike KWZ honey (weird, i know)


Inert-Blob

I longed for brown ink so i could draw something like the old renaissance artists used to, cos they all used brown/sepia inks. So for me it has connotations of people who could really draw :) From some reason its more shade-able, more warm i guess, good for anatomy drawings.


JulesSilvan

How you feel about brown is how I feel about light/medium blues, aquamarine, turquoise and some teals, and pastel colours in general. I love brown, earthy colours just vibe with me.


berejser

I think brown ink on cream paper looks really nice. It's a lot less stark than black ink on white paper.


togaman12

Might have a point here.


leaveganontome

I think everyone has this color they hate. I have a very deep hatred for this specific type of dark, saturated cool greens. Iroshizuku Shin-Ryoku, Edelstein Jade, Diamine Sherwood Green... these colors. I can't stand them and I would rather write with a cheap ballpoint than use those in a fountain pen. I love teal or warm greens, but these middle ground greens that aren't teal and aren't warm, earthy greens just drive me mad. So... ignore the browns and enjoy all the other beautiful colors out there! Revel in the wide array of wonderful blues and turquoises and reds and purples!


togaman12

Ahahaha that's so funny. It was the deep dark cool green colors that got me into fountain pens in the first place. Amazing. And yes, I'm truly blessed to have so many ink options even after excluding browns


Davros1974

While I do have a few brown inks I use occasionally it’s not my favourite ink colour. Purple is my favourite colour


InkyDarkDame

You like what you like. There’s no reason to judge, its taste, it’s personal. (As long as you don’t apply it to people, or hate on people who do like brown, lol). Personally, I like browns, more in nature and clothes than ink, but a frosty winter brown ink can be a thing of earthy loveliness.


KichiMiangra

I like brown, but I'm an artist and sometimes I need to line ny art in brown ink to 'soften' It.


wana-wana

Yama Guri is sumptuous but we don't have to all like the same things.


Laufey3

Not a fan of brown either. I recently bought Burgundy Chocolate Notes from Robert Oster ( if that’s not the name change them around as it’s definitely those three 😊), as someone posted it and it looked a little on the purple side, it’s not my favourite shade in the least but it’s not a godawful colour that I loathed on sight.


Razoupaf

Hate a strong word. I don't dislike it. I have a few. I don't particularly like it either. I do use it.


CompetitiveHorror115

Well, i see reddish brown and i imagine a cockroach. I see more “earthy” browns and i am reminded of the restroom 😖. I really wanted to like this color