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Literary analysis:

In literary descriptions ink is often employed as a vivid metaphor for deep, saturated hues. Authors invoke comparisons such as “as black as ink” to conjure an almost impenetrable darkness in nature—a technique seen when clouds gather with an “ink-black” quality [1, 2, 3] or when trunks of trees are described in “ink-black” tones at dawn [4]. In other instances, specific ink hues lend a particular character to printed words, as when texts are rendered in “dark blue ink” or “red ink,” thereby using ink to evoke a precise and striking color palette [5, 6]. Likewise, the imagery of a sea or sky “as of ink” further illustrates ink’s role in creating potent visual atmospheres that intensify the scene’s mood [7].

From merely looking squally, the clouds gathering on the horizon grew thicker and thicker, till they got as black as ink.
— from The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
And if we get into the fog you talk about it will be as black as ink.
— from One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
But the night was black as ink, the darkness had submerged the horizon.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola
At dawn, above the ink-black trunks and night, A pale pink petal drifted with the light; And presently the gates of sun swung wide,
— from England over Seas by Lloyd Roberts
Say, it’s as dark as red ink, and full of gullies along here.”
— from Those Smith Boys on the Diamond; or, Nip and Tuck for Victory by Howard Roger Garis
The "Oxford and Cambridge" was printed in dark blue ink, and "Harvard and Yale" in crimson.
— from At Start and Finish by William Lindsey
The sky and sea were as of ink with jets of foam running higher than the mast.
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

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