To me this is a greenish black, but it’s definitely one of these “office appropriate” fountain pen inks. Mid-saturation and a mid- kind of feeling to the hue itself, which produces a “soft black” look.

Today we have a stunner!! Just such a great, solid, bold, smooth, wet ink!

Green-gold isn’t my favorite color, so I’m not terribly objective on this one, but for a color family I don’t care for, it’s certainly a well-behaved, nicely delicate-looking ink. I guess it just reminds me of macrame and old afghans knit by grandmothers. And that’s not a bad thing, I just don’t necessarily look for…

Moving on to a new company today and for the next thirteen days: Rohrer and Klingner. They’ve been making ink in Leipzig since 1892, so presumably they know a thing or two. They make ink for all sorts of purposes (and you should always make sure you ink is suitable for your pen, because not…