@Jack79, ink was originally blue? Which “originally” was that? Are you speaking of ballpoint pens? Or did you go to school in days when school desks actually had little bottles of ink in the inkwells and you wrote with pens that you dipped into the ink? That ink was all black, I assure you. I wore some of it on my favorite pastel plaid skirt after my pigtail really was dipped by the boy behind me, whom I never spoke to again.
I don’t believe the Declaration of Independence was signed in blue, nor the Magna Carta.
In the 1960s I was able to buy fountain pen ink at stationery stores in nearly as many colors as I listed in my earlier message. I think of those colors only pink and orange were not available in standard bottles. “Peacock” was very popular. I used to buy purple ink by the quart.
@knitfroggy, I am definitely one of those who love pens—and pencils and every other sort of stationery item. I don’t buy new ones every payday, but I do carry an assortment, and I do find it hard to walk through a stationery department without picking up something. When I was a youngster I often spent my tiny allowance on a ballpoint pen (then a novelty item) and a little pad of paper.