Yazeh Ink Reviews

  Jacques Herbin Orange Indien   Ink Review # 243   Originally posted on FPN: Apr 30, 2026   --- 🧾  Description   Ink:  Orange Indien (Indian Orange) Brand:  Jacques Herbin Country:  France Availability:  10 ml, 30ml, 100 ml bottles; Cartridges.    Pens Used:  Pilot Kakuno EF, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ stub 1.1), Vintage Sailor flex.      As of this date all Les Perles des Encres, J Herbin inks are marketed as Jacques Herbin.    This is a bright reddish orange, with subtle shading. It doesn’t like copy paper and will bleed through it, but it has very decent water resistance. Dry times can be from short to long depending on the wetness of the pen, nib size and paper.   Cleaning was surprisingly easy.    Overall, I was happily surprised by the ink’s decent behaviour and colour, even though orange ain’t my colour.    ---   🧪  Chroma   ---   ✍️  Writing Sa...

  Pelikan Edelstein Apricot Achat   Ink Review # 221   Originally posted on FPN: Jan 07, 2026 --- 🧾   Description Ink:  Pelikan Apricot Achat Available:  50 ml bottled. Pens Used:  Pilot Kakuno F3A, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ Stub 1.1) , Kanwrite Desire with a FPR Ultra-flex nib. Pelikan Edelstein Apricot Achat is the ink of the year 2025. Achat is the German word for Agate. I’m a bit confused by the naming, mixing English and German, as in French it translates into  Apricot Buying ; to each its own.    Many thanks @lithium for the sample.  It’s a wet bright orange ink, lacking in the lubrication department. It has subtle shading. It ghosted and bled through on copy paper and with a wet flex nib on Iroful and a bit on Rhodia.  Despite a lovely name, I find the colour harsh and slightly fluorescent. But then I don’t like orange inks much.  As the scans were off, I took photos only.  As a writing ink it’s legible. I would say thi...

  Octopus Write & Draw – Orange Bunny   Ink Review # 214   Originally posted on FPN: Nov 24, 2025   ---   🧾  Description Ink:  Write & Draw – Orange Bunny Brand:  Octopus Country:  Germany Available:  10/50 ml bottles all over the world. 10 ml bottles are not readily available. Pens Used:  Pilot Kakuno EF, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ stub 1.1) , Kanwrite Desire with FPR Ultraflex nib.   One of three oranges from the Write and Draw series, waterproof and lightfast. According to the Octopus website these inks were developed with Kaweco and Diplomat pens.  Ink is a bright-ish orange (depending on the paper), with some shading and short dry times. Ink has below-average to average lubrication depending on the nib size. There is ghosting and bleed-through on copy paper.  If you let the ink dry in your pen, you’ll regret it. For cleaning, one would need both cleaning solution and a pen jacuzzi. This is a close-up of the fe...