Yazeh Ink Reviews

  J Herbin — Éclat de Saphir (Cartridge)   Ink Review #  120   Originally posted on FPN:  Mar 27, 2024   Ink:  Éclat de Saphir (Cartridge) Brand:  J Herbin Country:  France Availability:  Cartridges, 10 ml, 30 ml bottles. Pens Used:  Kaweco (EF/F/M/B, BB) Description Thanks to @Lithium466 for the cartridge. It’s difficult to review an ink which leaves you indifferent when writing with it. However, I truly enjoyed drawing and doing washes with it. It’s a happy blue. Like most Herbin inks, it doesn’t like copy paper. I didn’t bother to ink up a flex nib for this one, and @LizEf has done an excellent review of this ink with a Japanese EF nib. Chroma Writing Samples Rhodia Midori Hammermill 20 lb Photo Comparison Water Test Artwork Loving Blue The background is Éclat de Saphir, the darker blue is J Herbin Bleu Myosotis, and the outlines are done with Noodler's Polar Brown. Friendship Bath Inspired by a friend who got a new cat, who’s al...

J Herbin — Bleu Myosotis (Cartridge)   Ink Review #  119   Originally posted on FPN:  Mar 21, 2024   Ink:  Bleu Myosotis (Cartridge) Brand:  J Herbin Country:  France Availability:  cartridges, 10 ml, 30 ml bottles. Pens Used:  Kaweco (EF/F/M/B, BB) Description Thanks to @Lithium466 for the sample. After reviewing the complex Kobe #56 ink, it was difficult to warm up to this ink. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it, but the name! It doesn’t correspond to the sky-blue colour of forget-me-nots, unless in France the flowers are blurple or blue-black. I think Herbin would have been better off exchanging this one with Bleu Pervenche. 😛 I had some problems with the cartridge and the flow. I pressed the cartridge several times to prime the feed and finally realized that I had managed to slightly puncture the cartridge, a first for me. However, afterwards the pen wrote perfectly fine. The ink writes purple and dries to a muted blue-black. ...

Kobe 56 — Rokko Shichidanka   Ink Review #  118   Originally posted on FPN:  Mar 16, 2024   Ink:  Rokko Shichidanka Brand:  Nagasawa Kobe INK Country:  Japan Availability:  50 ml bottles Pens Used:  Pilot F3A EF, Lamy Safari (EF, F, M, B, 1.1), Osmiroid Copperplate nib Description Many thanks to @Lithium466 for the sample 🙏 The Ink is named after a Japanese Hydrangea. The chroma represents the complex tones of the flower. I most enjoyed doing washes with this ink, rather than writing. The ink is too complex and gorgeous to write with. 😛 If I were to use it for writing it would be on a white Japanese paper with a B nib. The colour simply sings and evokes mid-summer. On Rhodia it was flat, and it bled through with a B nib. Note that the pink dye in the  chroma  is stubborn and will take some time to clean your pen :)  Chroma Writing Samples The texts are poems by Akiko Yosano ( 1878 – 1942) translated by Sam Hamill & K...

De Atramentis — Document White   Ink Review #  117   Originally posted on FPN:  Mar 6, 2024   Ink:  Document White Series: Document Type: Pigment ink Brand:  De Atramentis Country:  Germany Availability:  45 ml bottles. Pens Used:  Pilot Kakuno EF, Lamy Safari (EF, F, M, B) Description To my knowledge, there are two white inks by De Atramentis, Document and Artist, Noodler’s Whiteness of the Whale (though technically speaking, it’s not a white ink from what I understand), and Octopus Write & Draw Polar White Bear. This is an unusual ink, somehow with a Maalox texture, like liquid chalk or whitewash; take your pick. 😛 It’s disconcerting when you see it in a fountain pen. It shows off all the muck in the feed and how dirty your converter truly is. Here is a photo of a stained no-name Chinese piston-filler. I tested it on two types of paper: one a no-name notebook bought from Amazon (a not-so-black, absorbent paper), and the other a ...