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@bazelgeuse-apologist asked:

re: fountain pens, which inks would you personally use for each of the Neathbow colors?

Obviously we're not consistent in portraying the Neathbow visually and often when we do we try to portray neath-colored things as having gradients or iridescences that suggest the color being more than a color, but this is kind of what comes to mind:

  • Peligin: A black ink with a bluish shimmer: Diamine Tempest
  • Violant: A heavily sheening purple/blue ink: Diamine Polar Glow
  • Apocyan: A true teal tone with some shading: Iroshizuku Syo-Ro ('dew on pine')
  • Viric: A bright chartreuse: Iroshizuku Chiku-rin ('bamboo forest')
  • Cosmogone: A very bright orange-yellow: Diamine Sunrise
  • Irrigo: A purple-black ink with some shading: Lamy Dark Lilac
  • Gant: A warm grey; Iroshizuku Kiri-Same ('autumn shower')

(there's an alternate version of this list which is just very aggressively sheening/shimmering inks that get at that 'more than a color' idea, but I figure it'd be cuter to have a mix of reasonable and unreasonable inks)


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