» Highlighting with Herbin
Our friend Cheryl at The Writer’s Bloc Blog wrote a post yesterday about using s0me of the lighter shades of J. Herbin fountain pen ink for the purpose of highlighting. This makes perfect practical sense as to why such light color inks exist, but I’ve had a little bit of difficulty making this work for me. Bouton d’or bled through the thin pages of Eat, Pray, Love and made a smudgy mess when I tried to highlight over ink jet printed pages of a book I had been working on. (Maybe I didn’t let them dry long enough?)
Do you use fountain pen inks to highlight? If yes, how do you use them, and which colors are most successful for you?
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I’ve used Private Reserve’s Buttercup and Daphne Blue with some success to highlight some documents in the past. That being said, I don’t see myself using them often, as they tend to cause inkjet prints to smear a lot more than when using an ordinary felt-tip highlighter.
I’m more likely to use them for editing. Vert Pre and Diabolo Menthe are just about dark enough for letter writing or journaling, especially on paper that isn’t stark white. However I use B or larger pen nibs and people writing with generic F or M will find the lines much lighter than with my nibs.
I don’t highlight my books, preferring to make marginalia instead using a finer nib. When I do, I want colors that show up better. These do tend to feather and run on cheap paper, which is unfortunately used in many inexpensive paperbacks these days.
No I have never done that but i’ll give it a try. Thanks for suggestion
Yes. I use Diamine Sunshine Yellow or Rohrer & Klingner Helianthus (almost identical to each other and the butter cup) all the time and it works extremely well for me. I use them either in Pelikan with a BB nib or my Lamy Safari 1.5 or 1.9 nib. Works better than any other highlighter for me. :)
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