J Herbin Diabolo Menthe — Ink Review #193
J Herbin Diabolo Menthe Ink Review # 193 Originally posted on FPN: Jul 12, 2025 --- 🧾 Description Ink: Diabolo Menthe Brand: Jacques Herbin Country: France Available: 10/30 ml bottles and cartridges. Pens Used: Pilot F3A EF semi-flex, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ Stub 1.1) Diabolo Menthe is one of the Herbin summery inks. The colour captures the nostalgia of a bygone French era of bistro life. It's a bright turquoise on the green spectrum to my eyes. You can check what you really see here: This ink is drier than Bleu Calanque; the colour is too fluorescent for my taste. One needs a wet pen to saturate the colour. Fun note on the etymology of diabolo: "The word diabolo was first used in 1906 to describe a juggling toy with a spinning hourglass shape, its name derived from Latin diabolus (“one who throws across”). This playful term was later adopted in the 1920s to name non-alcoholic café dri...