For the past few years I’ve seen a lot of glittery inks hit the market, but I’ve mostly avoided them....
Inks
These bottled fountain pen inks are broadly divided by the base color of the ink, but are also grouped by neighboring colors if they are intermediate, and by their sheen color if they have a strong sheen.
If it isn’t obvious yet, I have a thing for bright blue inks; the more saturated and vibrant the better....
In all of my time in India I somehow failed to encounter Krishna inks, which is unfortunate because they offer...
Firefly was the first shimmer ink that I bought on purpose. In part it’s just because I was a big...
Blood Orange is currently my favorite dark orange-red ink in my collection (if that seems overly specific it’s because I’m...
I was in India just over a year ago, wandering around a high-brow shopping district in Delhi. I’d been in...
Kon-Peki was the first Pilot Iroshizuku ink that I ever purchased, and I’ll admit that a big part of my...
When I first started getting interested in sheening inks, this was the first bottle that I bought, not because it...
Magical Forest is another one of the inks that I bought through Amazon from the Pilotfish storefront in the UK...
Oxblood is almost (but not quite) dark enough to be used as an every-day ink as a replacement for black....