Inkebara Sand — Ink Review #228

 Inkebara - Sand

 

Ink Review # 228

 

Originally posted on FPN: Feb 14, 2026

 

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🧾 Description

 

Ink: Sand

Brand: Inkebara

Country: Czech Republic

Available: 60 ml bottles.

Pens Used: Pilot Kakuno EF, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ stub 1.1), Jinhao 450 fude nib. 

 

Inkebera is Czech company. 

 

Sand is a legible tan with lovely shading. It’s sold as a dual shader. I didn’t notice any of it, until I hit it with water. 

 

 Like most colours in this hue, it lacks lubrication and is unpleasant with F nibs and below. It has a watery like quality and was unpleasant with the fude nib. 

 

I believe it’s best suited for absorbent papers.  

 

I had mishap with my sample, so I ran out of the ink with the flex nib, though in retrospect I’m glad I did.

 

This ink needs a soft and ideally wide nib to make it work. 

 

This ink needs a soft and ideally wide nib to make it work. But when it works the colour is luminous. :) 

 

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🧪 Chroma

 

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✍️ Writing Samples (photos only)

 

I took only LED and daylight photos. 

 

Quotes: 

Translations from the original Czech are provided for reference only. They are unofficial and may differ slightly from published translations.

 

Rhodia 

“In the fight between yourself and the world, side with the world.”

— Franz Kafka, Czech writer

 

Iroful

 “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

— Milan Kundera, Czech novelist

 


Midori 

 “Too much noise makes silence visible.”

— Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer


 

Tomoe River 

Note: This is the 68 gsm paper, not the thinner 52 gsm version commonly referenced in reviews.

 “From a certain point onward there is no turning back.”

— Franz Kafka, Czech writer 

Hammermill 20 lb copy paper

 “A true human being never loses the capacity to see things as fragile and temporary.”

— Karel Čapek, Czech writer

Closeup

 


 

 🔍 Comparison

 

Col-O-ring. Scans are approximative. 

 


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 💧 Water Test

 


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 🎨 Artwork

 

Sahara

Miniature with fountain pen ink. 

Inkebera Sand, Jacques Herbin Rue de la Verrerie, Talens Mixed Sketchbook.  

 

Purple rose for a blue lady

A nod to Valentine's day. 

 

Hongdian 1851 blade nib. 

Jacques Herbin Iris Sagesse, Inkebara Sand, Talens Mixed Media Sketchbook. 

 

 

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- What I Liked: Trying a different brand, chroma. 

- What I Did Not Like: Watery ink, lack of lubrication. 

- Writing Experience: unpleasant in general.  

 

 🧷 Ink Characteristics

 

- Shading: Yes. 

- Ghosting: Faint with a very wet pen.  

- Bleed Through: Same as above. 

- Flow Rate: Dryish. 

- Lubrication: yuck.

- Nib Dry-out: Did not notice. 

- Start-up: No problems. 

- Saturation: Not saturated. 

- Sheen: Only with a very wet pen

- Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Did not notice.

- Nib Creep / Crud: Did not notice.

- Staining (Pen): No. 

- Clogging: No.

- Cleaning: Easy

- Water Resistance:  None. 

 

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  💬 Closing

 

Like most tans this ink is very deficient in lubrication. For art work it was fun to use, as it captures well the golden sand of the Sahara. 

 

No fountain pens were hurt in preparing this review. ;)

 

Please don’t hesitate to share your experience, writing samples, or any other comments — the more the merrier. :) 

 

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