Herbin Jacques 1798 Anniversary Ink

This fountain pen ink, Kyanite du Nepal, is magnificent. It prints as a light blue/medium turquoise with a slight silver shimmer. The color is just beautiful. Ive been using it on paper that is a little light so there has been some ghosting, but with a heavier weight it will be perfect. Im sticking with J. Herbin inks from now on!

Nice color .

Amazon made it a bit hard to take a good picture, but the ink is sheening like crazy. I used tomoe river paper of course, I dont think Id waste this nice ink on any other paper. But it is beautiful, like the night sky. The packaging was a bit worrisome, but it got to me in 1 piece, so I cant complain much about that. Fantastic ink. I put it in my TWSBI Eco since those things are just great with murderous inks.

its what an entire page written with this ink looks like.

Lets cut to what you want to know. This is an absolutely beautiful Pure Blue. The silver flakes dont show up that much to me but they will stop up and extra fine nib so use caution. I would/will purchase again.

Nothing I like better than this ink

Love this ink the sparkle really shows

The color is absolutely gorgeous. It’s my favorite blue.

Waiting to see if more special series ink is on its way to be sold

J. Herbin (and Jacques Herbin) makes fantastic fountain pen inks and this one does not disappoint! The color on this one is incredible and the silver sparkles really stay in suspension for a long time. You do need to rock the bottle before filling your pen, and rock your pen a bit if its been lying unused, but once thats done youre good to go, unlike some other shimmering inks where you need to continually agitate the pen. I tried a sample of this (bought elsewhere) before investing in the bottle. Yes, its far more expensive than many inks, but wow, its lovely. Get a sample first if youre not sure, but if youre a fan of blue and silver and some shading and sheen as well, I think youll love this one.