I forgot about the release each month of a new color! I really like the Abandoned Coral----though the name is odd to me.....
Just this morning I was looking to see if I would want to get the Festive Berries, but I just cannot get myself to do it b/c it seems so similar to Barn Door---now that I see this coral color, I am going to hold off for it instead!
To me the coral doesn't look similar to any of the other colors, but of course we'll have to wait until someone demos it and posts to see for sure. Festive Berries is more along the line of fuchsia and Ripe Persimmons is a vivid orange, so maybe if you combined the two you'd get Abandoned Coral??
I think it'd come out brighter than the coral though.
Salty Ocean is ~close~ to the Blue Ribbon dye ink----at least according to their computer swatches --- IRL it may not be.
I agree that the line is definitely in purples! I have a hard time with Milled Lavender ever showing up when I use it (same with Spun Sugar)---maybe b/c they are so light?? I really am thinking of getting the Shaded Lilac, though some examples look like a blue purple and the computer swatch looks like a grey purple.....I really would hope it's a blue purple since I don't think I have that color in any inks.
Here's someone's swatches they made of the distress inks and it includes the seasonal ones (which are now apart of the regular line):
distress ink chart