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melted_snowball says he had a moment of white-board marker envy today.

A colleague has four white-board marker colours that he's not seen before: Charteruse, Magenta, Light Orange, and Turquoise.

He wondered whether he might be able to find another colour, along with those four, and raise the ante.

This is a project I could get behind. I know you can get refillable dry-erase marker casings. I wonder about the chemistry of dry-erase ink, and whether a chemist might be able to produce a new colour on spec. Right now I'm thinking a dun or tan colour would be neat.

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[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Tan already exists - that's the colour i use instead of yellow.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Neat. Do you happen to know the brand? ...I've found an Expo set with 16 colours, but no tan.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Right now I'm thinking you should be talking to quingawaga. Or my dad, but he doesn't have an LJ and is currently handling a minor family emergency, so Quingawaga's your better bet.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Hope the family stuff works out OK. I saw your post the other day; sounds like no fun for your mom.

Oi, quingawaga- any insights into dry-erase ink? :)

Magenta, Light Orange and Turquoise (but hold the Chartreuse)

[metalana.livejournal.com]

I need to know where to buy these! My data models would be so much more... decorator.

Re: Magenta, Light Orange and Turquoise (but hold the Chartreuse)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Ooh! lime, turquoise, aqua...

http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CatIds=&webid=626955&affixedcode=WW

Re: Magenta, Light Orange and Turquoise (but hold the Chartreuse)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Hee, better: 16 colours (!):

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?prodCatType=0&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=126877&cmArea=SEARCH

"Black, red, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple, pink, lime green, aqua, turquoise, brick red, forest green, plum and indigo."

While staples.com has the 16-pack, staples.ca only has the 12-pack. I wonder if d. can pick them up when he's visiting Hanover this weekend. ...shall I see if he can pick up a second set? :)

Re: Magenta, Light Orange and Turquoise (but hold the Chartreuse)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

But no tan, I'll note.

Re: Magenta, Light Orange and Turquoise (but hold the Chartreuse)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=152724&cmArea=SEARCH

20 colours!

"black, red, blue, green, purple, yellow, orange, brown, aqua, lime, turquoise, pink, brick red, indigo, forest green, plum, berry, marine, pumpkin and mauve"

I'm thinking that pumpkin looks a lot like tan to me from the picture.

...I'm done now.

Re: Magenta, Light Orange and Turquoise (but hold the Chartreuse)

[cypherpunk95.livejournal.com]

Wow. Me wantee. But I'd probably just toss the yellow away. I've never seen a yellow whiteboard marker that was actually useful.

[the-infamous-j.livejournal.com]

Umm... he seemed to have quite a stockpile last I checked. Where they only boring colours?

My set only has eight:/ and I'm missing two.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's quite a stockpile, of black, blue, red, green, and brown, purple, and yellow. :)

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

There turn out to be eight colours (well, nine, if you count both shades of red). The pack that da_lj mentioned above has me very excited.

Here's another whiteboard marker story...