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Feb 18, 2010 · The details: * Visconti Blue is a Medium Dark straight blue. It does not lean green or red or anything else. It's just blue. What sets it apart is the vibrancy of it. It jumps off the page at you, but not enough to be offensive. I see this is the perfect professional ink. * There is no bleeding or feathering.
Jun 15, 2023 · My goal is to get a variety of nib sizes and styles, as well as a mix of modern and vintage pens. Here are the pens I chose this week and some writing samples from each: The pens I used (L-R): Parker 51, Pilot Metropolitan, Jinhao 100, Lamy Studio, Platinum 3776.
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Aug 3, 2006 · I have lots of blue inks - and a number of pens. Visconti is the only ink that gives a good blue line with nearly every pen. No purple hues, no grey or green. It's a true blue. For me it's THE blue and I always come back to it.
Dec 17, 2016 · Visconti Blue is a rich and intense colour. Someone asked in Inky Thoughts about a colour close to International Klein Blue (I saw a painting of it in Centre Pompidou and it just captures your eyes). I think Visconti Blue is a good contender. Splash. Sample. Compare
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China in the 23rd Century BC onwards had created various forms of ink made with plants, minerals and even animal products and it is said that pine sap from trees which were between 50 and 100 years old were the preferred ingredients. The ink created was to be used on silks and early forms of paper predominantly applied with brush style pens. A deep...
Their neighbours to the south, India, utilised bones, tar and pitch to create ‘Masi’, an ink product dating back perhaps as far as the 4th century BC. In a similar manner to the Chinese, Indians were creating incredibly rich inks with an ash base, however, the inks primary purpose related more to the encapsulation of Buddhist and Jain writings whic...
Unlike the Ancient Chinese who treated and prepared their ink more like one would prepare watercolour paints, the Ancient Greeks went for a hardier approach. Similarly, the Romans were also creating Carbon Black based inks, Pliny the Elder (*takes a deep breath* author, naturalist, philosopher, naval & army commander, friend of emperor Vespasian an...
From the Middle Ages until the 19th Century in Europe, iron gall was the most frequently produced ink and so was known colloquially as ‘common ink’ (again, imaginative!). It was made in batches by hand until the 18th century when the industrial revolution allowed for production on a commercial scale. Iron gall ink is probably one of the most recogn...
Prior to iron gall inks popularity, the advent of mass printing in Europe, thanks to Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press in the 1440s, saw the development of a new kind of ink. The printing press saw a side step from the water-based inks which had been used in previous iterations of the printing press seen in Korea and China a century or two earlie...
Unlike contemporary inks which are well recorded, especially from the point of commercial production, ancient inks have for the most part remained slightly mysterious in terms of their recipe - even with some examples of formulae existing. Researchers, scientists and conservationists have been using technology and advanced methods that many a lay p...
Speaking of colours, ink is widely available in such a multitude of colours that I shant bore you by listing them! An ink's color comes from either a dye which is water soluble or a pigment which is insoluble (although pigment is often used as a general term across the board - just to add a level of confusion!). The dye eosin lends red ink its colo...
Apr 22, 2017 · Visconti Blue Ink is a wonderful vibrant true blue ink color. Although Visconti, an Italian pen company, only produces a limited number of ink colors, the inks they produce are top notch colors and do not vary or any deviate from the true color they represent. The Visconti Blue ink is no exception.
The fountain pen’s origins. Knowing how fountain pens evolved over time is an excellent way to truly understand and appreciate the impeccable workmanship and extreme functionality of Visconti pens.