Contract signed in blue pen

[Papillon33]

Hello, this is probably a very dumb question, but I'm very anxious so I might as well go ahead and sound silly anyway.. we're hoping to exchange on a house tomorrow, our contracts for buying and selling were returned to our conveyancer weeks ago and our buyers are finally in a position to exchange too. Our conveyancer noticed this afternoon that my signature was missing from one place. I'm so annoyed at myself, thought we'd triple-checked everything. The conveyancer sent us the page at 4pm. Our printer suddenly decides to stop working, so we had to get into town, my partner somehow got them printed somewhere just before it closed. I went ahead and signed it, but in blue pen. Didn't even think. My partner has panicked me that they won't accept it in blue. Now he's driving over there, an hour each way, to deliver this one piece of paper with my blue signature on. Are they going to reject it because of the blue pen?

No it will be fine don't worry

I was always under the impression that requests for signatures in black ink were because black photocopies better than blue - not that black ink is required because of any legal reason.

I deal with getting signatures from people all the time - as a pp has stated, black photocopies and scans better. In some countries blue ink is always required. In others it's black. In the UK it doesn't matter.

You can legally sign documents in any colour ink in the UK.

Thank you so much for the answers, i felt silly for asking, but I'm glad I did because I'll sleep a lot better tonight with your answers!!

I've just signed contracts in blue pen as that was the only thing available at the time and time was of the essence. It's been excepted so should be fine.

*accepted