J Herbin Bleu Calanque — Ink Review #194
J Herbin Bleu Calanque Ink Review # 194 Originally posted on FPN: Jul 17, 2025 --- 🧾 Description Ink: Bleu Calanque Brand: Jacques Herbin Country: France Available: 10 ml and 30 ml bottles and cartridges in most stationery stores and online. Pens Used: Pilot F3A EF, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/stub 1.1), Osmiroid Copperplate. This ink is a happy turquoise, great for summertime, when one’s soul yearns for the sea. It is wet, well lubricated, and a pleasure to use. There’s some shading and a faint sheen on Iroful. It’s not suitable for copy paper. It ghosts and bleeds through like a bad horror movie. :) This ink, along with Bleu des Profondeurs , is one of the more recent additions to J. Herbin’s classic fountain pen ink lineup. It’s a gorgeous, well-behaved turquoise with excellent flow and generous lubrication — wetter and smoother than most Herbin inks. The ink is named after the Calanques, a ser...