J Herbin Bottled Ink(30ml) Fountain Pen Ink

Rouge Grenat is a beautiful red color, but dries a bit darker on high quality paper. Vert De Gris is a pretty, muted green, almost teal color. All of the Herbin inks are well-behaved in all of my pens.

gorgeous color!

The Bleu calanque is a beautiful blue/turquoise. Matches the Platinum Procyon turquoise pen perfectly! Really enjoy this ink, that pen and shopping at Pen Chalet!!!

Rouille d’ancre Nearest colour I could find to rose gold. Looks good.

Such a beautiful minty color! If you have a Leuchtturm in the "emerald" color it is a bit like that. To me it is turquoise and minty. It is well saturated and I have found that it flows very nicely for long writing and note taking. It is not a super wet ink which I prefer for long sessions (it smudges less).

I purchased the Perle Noir color, but I also have the Lierre Sauvage and the Vert Empire.

Perle Noire is an excellent, deep black. It’s slightly thick, which makes it good for calligraphy and flexing. I had read that it would be great on absorbent paper, but it is not. It’s a good ink for dip pens.

Lierre Sauvage is an excellent Irish green. It is nearly everything MontBlanc Irish Green is, with a little less shading, and a little less tendency to bleed on absorbent paper. It’s a truly great color.

Vert Empire is a dusty green, with some grey to it. On some papers, it looks good. On others it looks under saturated and hard to read. It’s pretty inconsistent. I would not recommend.

These bottles are poorly designed. You basically cannot use a piston or vac filler in these bottles, and when the ink gets below half, you won’t be able to fill. The neck is pretty good sized, though. You are going to want an ink syringe when using this bottle.

I bought Bouton D'Or (Gold Button, in French) to serve as a highlighter ink, and it works fine for that use. It is such a happy color!

I'm not sure I would write a long letter with the stuff, as it's very light, though.

All of J. Herbin's inks are well behaved and a good value.

Beautiful ink. Great service!

When I knew NOTHING about fountain pens or inks, I found my first bottle of J. Herbin ink in a stationery store and bought it because I liked the purple color. It was a great accidental discovery. Long story short--I needed a new bottle so this time around I bought Encre Violette Pensee with full knowledge of its quality.

This my first bottle of J. Herbin. Really lovely colour of Bleu Pervenche. Good dark colour of turquoise and a nice change. Appears to be very good quality and flows really well. Nibs and paper make a difference but I try and use good fountain pen paper and medium nips of steel mostly in mid range priced pens.