Purple Reign Monteverde Bottled Ink(30ml) Fountain Pen Ink

Flows well, like all Monteverde inks. Good value, too. Unfortunately does not look blueish at all, guess the review I read was misleading.

Monteverde Olivine is a nice green with great shading. I am a green fan anyway but this is a really great one.

I got three different inks: Documental Blue, Jade Noir, and Ocean Noir.

Documental Blue is a nice bright blue. I wrote some piece of extemporaneous poetry with a glass pen then, once the ink dried, immersed the paper in a sink of water. With plain water it didn't budge. A little dish detergent made the ink bleed, but it didn't obliterate what I had written. Full marks.

Ocean Noir is the same deep dark blue shade seen at the zenith during a winter sunset, when there is no humidity to add the whitish cast so often present. This is a distinguished, sedate blue, well suited for professional usage, yet limiting it to those uses would be to miss out on the magnificent glide a pen inked with this elixir exhibits. Again, full marks.

Jade Noir reminds me of the bosky light found under the trees. Its green and black components blend and mix and make one think Smaug may be lurking in the shadows where the light doesn't quite reach. And the ink is also eminently suited for more professional or scholastic endeavors as well. Once again, full marks.

I thought enough of the Jade Noir and Ocean Noir that I got the 90 mL bottles too, and the Doc Blue is on the list for the next time I get ink.

Bought to replace a sample vial because it's a lovely color. Dedicated to inking up a Pilot Cavalier with Medium nib.

I got the Midnight Black, excellent, deep color for writing.

This ink is amazing to use as a drawing ink. It has rich depth of color, but can also be blotted and lifted off for tonal variation during sketching. Accepts "bleed in" from outliners or layered inks.

I got the Monteverde Topaz such a lovely orange color.

I love Monteverde inks but this colour was a bit of a disappointment. A bit grey blue and not too much pop or brightness that I was hoping for. I will probably give it away as it is quality ink but not the blue I wanted. I have to order all online so sometimes I get it wrong but it is only personal taste as there is nothing wrong with this ink at all. My favourite Monteverde ink is California Teal so I am a happy Monteverde customer.

I love the colors — smooth flow.

Ruby is a bright, pretty red color with a slight hue toward a reddish-orange when dried, purple reign is a light (almost on the neon side) purple - Monteverde inks have seemed a bit on the drier side than most of the other inks I've tried, but seem to perform great in flex pens. Smaller bottles have proven easier to store. Larger bottles are pretty but are much larger and the shape of them requires a bit more space when storing them (which matters for me).