[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[oshfdk]

Yes, I am well aware of the changes in darkness due to mere variations of ink flow.  Like suddenly darker after dipping the pen in ink, then gradually lighter as the pen runs out of ink.  Or when the Scribe him/herself goes back and corrects some mistakes. Or when he/she presumably mixes a new batch of ink halfway through a page.  But those are easy to spot because (1) the hue of the ink does not change, and (2) the sequence makes sense considering the way he/she must have operated.

I'm not sure the change in hue necessarily means a different kind of ink, if the ink is not mixed very well and there is some layering in the inkwell. And I'm not even sure there is a change in hue.

If I understood correctly which ok/tedal you are referring to, here it is from the TIFF. I sampled the hue from the dark label and from the faint nymph outline, and it looks like the hue component is practically the same (30 vs 31).