Any other deutans find burgundy and maroon very easy to distinguish? I hear from some people with normal color vision that the two colors are too similar, and they can’t tell the difference, but to me they look pretty different. Burgundy looks like a significantly more vibrant marron to me, just as different as periwinkle and aqua or even more different looking than olive and brown. I was curious if these colors somehow have more contrast to us?

I have been invited to a fall wedding where the attire for all guests is “formal - must be maroon or burgundy. Nothing that resembles purple or wine.” This confuses me because to me, wine is burgundy. Would this dress work? If not, can someone please explain the difference??

Legit, look up either color on Images and see the treasure trove of color comparisons that differ with each other when comparing these two. I get that once you start getting into tertiary-color territory things can get a little muddy, but these two are particularly mixed up all the time it seems. Throw claret into the mix and everything immediately gets fucked up even more.

This is sort of important to me since I consider my favorite color to be Maroon, but for all I know it could actually be Burgundy/Claret and my preferences and taste are now suddenly lies.

Burgundyesque inks are some of my favorite, along with Teal, of course. Here’s what I got in my collection right now:

Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Budo—an elegant magenta forward purplish wine grape color that really pops on the page and has a subtle (and somewhat elusive) golden sheen.

Sailor Manyo Akeb—a similar color profile to Yama-Budo, except more eggplanty and with gorgeous shading and a very strong green-gold sheen.

Vintage Makopa “Malayan Apple”—you can’t tell from the swatch but this is a very magenta forward ink when it goes down, but then dries and reveals this vivid green sheen, reminiscent of Malayan Apples as they turn color. I actually included a few pictures of the way it dries and reveals it’s vivid green sheen.

Rohrer & Klingner Solferino—this is a stunning, vibrant ink. Pictures don’t do this ink justice. The magenta/fuschia color POPS on the page. Like Akebi, it leans more “purple” and has some shading and a lovely green gold sheen.

Taccia Ebi Purple Red—This is a really nice burgundyish color that flows well in all of my pens and reminds me of a more well-behaved “Black Swan in Australian Roses”. I used to have this in my Pilot Elite 95s champagne/burgundy and it was lovely.

Noodler’s Black Swan in Australian Roses—The wine color of this ink is gorgeous. So pretty. And it has beautiful shading. My one complaint is that it takes forever to dry. But a beautiful color.

Sailor Manyo Kuzu—a straight up great burgundy ink. It is very wet and flows nicely, but seems to dry very quickly. I also had this in my Pilot Elite, as well as in some of my Franklin-Christophs. It also has a lovely green sheen, like a lot of Sailor Manyo inks.

Diamine Writer’s Blood—ah, the infamous Writer’s Blood. I have a love hate relationship with this ink, as it’s one of least well-behaved inks I’ve used, and it’s alarmingly wet, and can be a GUSHER in most of my pens (it’s a firehose in a Lamy 2k Medium, just saying). However, I have managed to tame it with some Extra Fine nibs, and a Franklin-Christoph Medium SIG. when it’s tame, it’s a fantastic ink. Strong burgundy color with a lovely sheen.

Sailor Shikiori Okuyama—This is a lovely burgundy that leans more reddish brown with the classic Sailor green-gold sheen. It’s a bit on the drier side, but it worked beautifully in my Pilot Elite 95s Fine nib, and stayed in that pen the longest.

Diamine Oxblood—This is more of a Reddish Brown, but it feels like a burgundy to me. A great ink, works in all of my pens, and shows strongly on the page. Don’t use it nearly as much as I used to, but every now and then I’ll ink it up and be reminded of how cool it is.

Robert Oster Claret—Lovely ink, more muted than I’m accustomed, which is why I don’t use it often, But it’s a solid ink and flows really well.

Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Bordeaux—I love this ink. This was a surprise to me. I got it on a whim, as I was expanding my R&K ink collection (see my other posts), and thought it would be nice to use. This ink works beautifully in my vintage flex pens. So nice! It keeps up with huge flexes, doesn’t its lose it’s tension (very much like a calligraphy ink). Great color with some beautiful shading.

Papier Plume Burgundy—Lovely color, but it’s very muted and light, almost like a pastel. I actually find it better to use it with a calligraphy nib, rather than a fountain pen.

Hello, as a French native speaker who lives in an English speaking country now, I noticed that the word for the colour "burgundy" in English is translated into French into "bordeaux." I was wondering if anyone has an explanation for that difference. Both mean the same colour, and even in Quebec, the colour is not called "bordeaux" but "bourgogne" (the French word for burgundy).

I found that weird, especially since Bordeaux has been under English influence for a long time while Burgundy (region) has been under French influence and even its own country for a long time. So, I would expect the words to be at least switch the other way around.

The 3rd picture was the one advertised as purple.