I LOVE TWSBI Ecos.  Well made, good price point, and they hold a lot of ink.  They are my go-to sketching pens, and the only pens where I have all the variations inked up.  (See bottom.)

The when the two new pens arrived (a gift) I was shocked at the color.  As you can see, it is not a “new” color.

In the design business, and probably many other businesses, slight color variations in fabrics are due to dye lots.  As these two “new” colors are almost identical to colors from a couple of years ago, they look more like a dye lot shift.

They were a gift, I’m keeping them, especially as the company that sold them did not know this.  But what manufacturer does that?  TWSBI shame on you for (nearly) duplicating the color under another name, especially.with all the wonderful colors you could have made, such as a transparent grey, new solid red, clear pink, browns, more greens (endless variations), or a solid purple plus others….  off the top of my head.

And to those who say, “but what about those of us who missed these colors?” I say, oh well. I had to hunt down my orange pen, which is why I don’t have a stub. I bought it secondhand. I had ot have orange! But if TWSBI wants to rerelease colors they are welcome to do that — just OWN IT.