Yazeh Ink Reviews

  Diamine Grey   Ink Review # 209   Originally posted on FPN:  Oct 30, 2025   ---   🧾  Description   Ink:  Diamine Grey Available:  30/80 ml bottles. Pens Used:  Pilot Elite EF,  Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ Stub 1.1), Karas Vertex with FPnib flex and ebonite feed.   It’s a pure pencil grey, with below average lubrication, like most greys.  I thought flow was wet, but the ebonite feed of the Karas was ink starved.  Dry times are off. I think the higher ones were done when the feed was saturated.    If there’s shading, I don’t see it. The show-through and bleed-through are only with the very wet ebonite feed. ---   🧪  Chroma   ---   ✍️  Writing Samples (scan)   JEF stands for Japanese EF nib. Rhodia  / Iroful   Midori  /Tomoe River 68gsm   Hammermill 20lb    📸  Photo   Rhodia/ Iroful   Midori / Tomoe River 68 gsm   Hammermill...

Tintenlabor – Echinacea   Ink Review # 208   Originally posted on FPN:  Oct 20, 2025    ---   🧾  Description   Ink:  Tintenlabor – Echinacea Available:  30/50 ml bottles, directly from Tintenlabor. Pens Used:  Pilot Kakuno EF, Kaweco Sport (EF/F/M/B/ Stub 1.9) , Ahab with FPR Super-flex.   Tintenlabor is a Swiss ink company specializing in Iron Gall inks. What differentiates this brand is that it discloses the iron content. The samples were sent to me by the Ink-Meister, David.    The inks have been streamlined and now comprise a few new colours.  Echinacea has a 4 g/L iron content. The highest iron content is 6 g/L (Goldrausch) and lowest is 1 g/L (alpstein).    Ink writes as a hot pink and oxidizes to dark burgundy or black (ebonite feed/flex). In the latter combo it’ll bleed through copy paper. However, for those of us who doodle, the same combo is fantastic for creating black lines. :)   You c...

J Herbin Gris Nuage   Ink Review # 207   Originally posted on FPN: Oct 12, 2025    ---   🧾  Description   Ink:  Gris Nuage Brand:  Jacques Herbin Country:  France Available:  10/30 ml bottles and small international ink cartridges. Pens Used:  Pilot Elite EF,  Lamy (EF/F/M/B), Jinhao 450 fude, Karas Vertex with FPNIBs extra wet ebonite feed.   Gris Nuage (Grey Cloud) is a very legible delicious light grey, with below average lubrication, wet and minimal shading. It’s most handsome on white paper.    I enjoyed it most with Pilot Elite EF gold nib, and Karas Vertex with a full flex FPNibs with ebonite feed. With Lamy Safari it depended on nib size and paper. With fude nib it was scratchy.    It can have a faint reddish halo on Iroful.    If you want an expressive grey this can be an OK choice. For drawing, I found it too pale. I prefer darker greys, so I can create different values.  ...