One of my favorite ink lines is CdA’s Colors of the Earth. I like the concept (colors inspired by nature) and the bottles (cubist crystal candy). My first favorite was Storm, a deep brownish purple, like the halo of a bruise. My second was Saffron, which is more intense dry than wet.
![Caran d'Ache Colors of the Earth sampler Caran d'Ache Colors of the Earth sampler](http://www.leighreyes.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/cdasampler.jpg)
Recently, I’ve been liking Caribbean Sea, a teal-tinged turquoise, and Blue Night, which is not really blue, more like a gray that sometimes has the tiniest hint of blue and sometimes green. These ink samples are on Paperblanks notepaper, scribbled with a glass pen.