Yazeh Ink Reviews

Jacques Herbin 1670 - Opal Nocturne (Night Opal)   Ink Review # 212   Originally posted on FPN: Nov 17, 2025   --- 🧾  Description Ink:  1670 - Opal Nocturne (Night Opal) Brand:  Jacques Herbin Country:  France Available:  50 ml bottle worldwide. Pens Used:  Pilot Kakuno EF,  Kaweco Sport (EF/F/M/B/BB/stub 1.9) Noodler’s Nibcreeper fitted with a vintage Waterman flex nib.   One of the newest 1670 inks with gold shimmer, is a blue-green-grey ink, nicely lubricated and excellent on copy paper. Dry time is fast on Rhodia.    Ink colour is very close to Vert de Gris; the only difference is shimmer and lubrication.    1670 inks are gold shimmer inks that celebrate the creation of Herbin company.  1798 inks are silver shimmer inks that honor the date when they started making inks.      ---   🧪  Chroma   --- ✍️  Writing Samples (scan) JEF stands for Japanese EF nib. Rhodia ...

  Journalize Starwave Meadow   Ink Review # 210   Originally posted on FPN:  Nov 05, 2025    ---   🧾  Description   Ink:  Journalize Starwave Meadow Available:  30ml bottles worldwide. Pens Used:  Pilot Kakuno EF, Kaweco Sport (EF/F/M/B/ BB/Stub 1.9) Kanwrite with a FPR Flex.   Journalize is a Hong Kong-based company. Inks are made in Hungary, boxed in France, and stamped in Hong Kong.    Ink is lovely sea-glass blue-green colour with gold shimmer.    Ink was atrocious with Pilot Kakuno, great with Kaweco Sport, and OK with Kanwrite flex.  The amount of shimmer in the feed is frightening. (Check photos)   There’s some shading. Dry times are relatively long on Rhodia. Colour is not suited for cream-coloured papers like Midori. It behaves decently on copy paper, though I cannot fathom why anyone would like to write on copy paper with shimmer ink.  ;)    ---   🧪  C...

Kuretake – Shimbashi-Iro   Ink Review #  114   Originally posted on FPN:  Feb 7, 2024   Ink:  Shimbashi-Iro Brand:   Kuretake Series: Meiji No Iro Country:  Japan Availability:  20 ml bottles. Pens Used:  Pilon F3A, Lamy Safari (EF, F, M, B, 1.1), Noodler’s Nib creaper semi flex Description I love Kuretake brush pens, and I was very excited to try this one. Many thanks to @Lithium466 for the sample. These inks were released to celebrate Kuretake’s 120th anniversary. According to Kuretake’s website, these six inks are “inspired by colors popular around the Meiji era of Japan (1868–1912), when Kuretake was founded.” “Shimbashi” is the name of a place in Tokyo. The bright bluish-green colour was popular among geisha in Shimbashi, as it was fashionable and trendy. In short, the ink is wet, with average lubrication, long dry times on Japanese paper, and average dry times on Rhodia. The ink is pricey for what it is. While the scans capture the...