Purple pens!

Callie22

I was told at university that mentally unstable people use green ink, and purple is used for corrections as it's less 'aggressive' than red ...

knightstyle

I had several boxes of these purple ball point pens, all dried up and tipped years ago. They were thrown away when Alliance merged with Leicester to become Alliance and Leicester B.S. They were originally used to write in pass books and were purple as an anti fraud measure.
How simple we were back then!

lincroft1710

The Valuation Office Agency used to use purple pens for indicating metric measurements in the days when imperial measurements were being used concurrently (late 1960s to possibly late 1970s).

barbiedoll

I work in a hospital and everything MUST be written in black ink. (Apparently, this is something to do with photocopying/scanning?)
Blue is a definite no-no, as is red.
Green is only used by pharmacists, when checking filled prescriptions.

Purple? Whatever next?

When I was at school, we used fountain pens with Quink ink. I had a lovely stationery shop near me which sold the ink in a beautiful shade of turquoise. I bought a bottle and used it for my school work. Everyone in the class loved it and they all ended up using it. Teachers weren’t impressed but as we pointed out, we were allowed to write in “blue or black ink” and as turquoise is blue, they couldn’t do much about it. I still have a couple of my old school books with turquoise notes in them. Unfortunately, the colour wasn’t “washable” so it did fall out of favour after most of us got sick of bright blue inky fingers that wouldn’t wash off for a week! :rotfl:

NBLondon

Fascinating Stuff... I have three fountain pens on my bookshelf which are currently filled with black (for signing business letters), mid-purple (for personal letters) and sepia (to go with parchment coloured paper) inks. I quite like maroon as well - works on many paper colours. Though always blue or black for school and marked in red - that must mean I'm old!