In my ink-collecting zeal one afternoon, I bought this bottle of Sailor Jentle Blue-Black ink at the Kinokuniya book/stationery shop in Seattle’s International District for $20, which is almost (but not quite) double what I would have paid for it if I’d just stayed home and let Amazon deliver it to my door. It wasn’t […]
As I mentioned in a previous review, I bought a bunch of Diamine inks at wonderfully low prices from the Pilotfish storefront on Amazon, from the UK. Adding this 30ml ink to my order cost about $1.60 (plus $2 shipping), so I went ahead an got it, even though I wasn’t particularly interested in the […]
I doubt that I’ll be the first person to point out that the name of Herbin’s Bleu Pervenche ink doesn’t make much sense. If you didn’t speak French and ran across this ink, you’d probably be surprised to learn that the name translates to “Periwinkle Blue”; periwinkle is of course a color midway between blue […]
This ink used to belong to my mother; it was given to her by my dad along with a Waterman pen in the early to mid 1990s, I believe. I remember using it when I was in high school, and I inherited them both along with a bottle of Levenger Amethyst several years ago. I […]
I was initially attracted to Lemur Ink by the company name (I went to grad school for anthropology), and then I saw that they had their very own exclusive Blackstone Ink: Lemur Lime. I had to have it. Who could resist this gorgeous shade of moss green, with its wonderful shading and the iconic prosimian […]
For at least a year of my life I was firmly of the opinion that this was the blue ink and that none of the rest mattered. Baystate Blue is the most vibrant, in-your-face blue that I’ve encountered. I love the hue, I love that it dries quickly, and I love the fact that it […]
Before I found Baystate Blue and I was looking for a vibrant, saturated blue for everyday use, I ran across a Private Reserve ink that looked great. It was called DC Electric Blue, but I couldn’t find it in stock anywhere at the time, so I decided to try American Blue instead, since it looked […]
Monteverde’s California Teal is a teal ink in the same way that a California Stop is a stop, which is to say… it’s not. It strikes me as more of a pine green, most of the time. But whatever you call it, it’s a beautiful color with a red sheen that is sometimes visible on […]
For years, in my search for the perfect hue, I only bought bottles of blue ink. Noodler’s Apache Sunset was the first ink that I saw someone write with that made me want to try something new. It’s still my favorite orange, overall. The great thing about Noodler’s Apache Sunset is that it produces such […]
Oxblood is almost (but not quite) dark enough to be used as an every-day ink as a replacement for black. In practical use, though, the ink is thin enough that even with a wet pen on good paper, the red color is pretty apparent when dry. This was among the first group of reddish inks […]
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