![]() ![]() Dill your waterproof post was interesting as your posts frequently are. That, to me, is pretty irrelevant when I'm geeking out on the characteristics, performance and nuances of this fountain pen ink or that. In the meantime, I’d love to hear from the FPN crowd for any experiences anyone has had with this ink, good, bad, or indifferent. I will report back here when my bottle arrives and post of few sketches with Platinum Carbon Black and Pelikan Fount India. This is a permanent black ink at almost half the cost of Platinum Carbon Black and DeAtramentis Document Black. Why isn’t there more discussion of this ink? Pelikan has a well-earned reputation for producing reasonably trouble-free fountain pen friendly inks. It’s permanent and, at least in my neck of the world, as inexpensive as regular Pilot Black or Pelikan Black at around $11.00 a bottle. On paper this seems like a no-brainer good deal. But only just today stumbled across this Pelikan Font India ink in random net browsing. So I use other inks for practice, mostly Pilot Black or Pelikan Black. which to me, as a fledgling sketcher who is still just filling pages with practice lines, is too much to pay for a practice ink. It’ s a great ink and one I’ll continue to buy and use for sketches I intend to last, but it still costs close to $20. In my watercolor tests it held solid and did not bleed. In my experience Platinum Carbon Black deserves its reputation and popularity it’s just a darn good, smooth-flowing and genuinely waterproof ink (of course I know, as a nano ink, the pens into which it is put must be flushed regularly). I’ve already decided I won’t buy another bottle of the Sailor, it’s overpriced, and in my waterproofing tests it bled somewhat when watercolor was applied over it. I have both Platinum Carbon Black and Sailor Kiwa-Guru. I just ordered a bottle and looking forward to testing it out. ![]() Is this ink so terrible that no one here bothers to use it or even talk about it? I like being a maverick in general and if the only reason this ink doesn’t get much “ink” here is that for whatever reason it doesn’t have as much cachet as the hot inks Platinum Carbon Black, Sailor Kiwa-Guru or DeAtramentis Document Black, that’s silly. I was not compensated for this review and everything here is my own honest opinion. There are no affiliate links.I’m a fledgling pen & ink sketcher. Maybe I’ve missed it, but I google searched for reviews of this ink on the FPN (this way: “pelikan fount India ink fpn” ) and the most recent review which came up was from back in 2012. Please let me know which inks you'd like to review next via the comments, Twitter, Instagram, or contact me directly.įor blog updated you can follow Twitter, subscribe via email, or like my Facebook page. I've listed all my inks and all my pens in their respective pages. I'll finish off, bellow, with some 4x4 closer photos of each of the swatches. ![]() Kingdom Note Dorcus hopei binodulosus is a sinner with it's green sheen and so is Kyo-no-oto Nureba-iro but they don't fit the "black" black category at all. Herbin Pearl Noire did a much better job than I expected though maybe a prejudged them too harshly. ![]() Montblanc Permanent Black, Lamy Black, and J. Noodler's Black and Eel Black were rather disappointing, and Dark Matter wasn't as Dark as I expected. It's also a fairly neutral grey colour with not much bias towards red, green or blue. This seems to be backed up by how the average colour of Polar Black is the only ink to drop into the 20s. If I was to pick a winner (of blackest black) from my eyes, for both papers, it would be, very surprisingly, Noodler's Polar Black. ![]()
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