Pack of three
When "blue" isn't specific enough
Three close cousins from the same drawer. Because sometimes the difference between perfect and almost is one tiny vial.
₹249₹83 a sampleIndicative
Pick 3A little ink before you take the plunge.
Fountain pen ink samples, decanted from premium bottles into 2 ml vials. Enough to fill your pen twice, live with a colour for a week, and decide whether it's love, or just good lighting. Packs of three, six and twelve, shipped across India.
More colours. Fewer regrets.
A single ink sample is ₹95. In a pack of three, six or twelve they cost less, and being wrong about one of them stops mattering.
Pack of six
One from every drawer
For when you came looking for blue and somehow left emotionally attached to violet.
₹449₹75 a sampleIndicative
Pick 6Lowest per sample
Pack of twelve
The whole inky shebang
Every ink in the book. Because narrowing it down was clearly never going to happen.
₹799₹67 a sampleIndicative
Pick 12
Choose your rabbit hole
Six drawers of fountain pen ink. Start with the one you keep coming back to, then take a sample from either side of it.
Blue-black
Shop nowThe gateway ink
Green
Shop nowFor people who say they don't like green, then buy three
Red
Shop nowFor notes that need to make a point
Orange
Shop nowSubtle in the bottle. Absolutely not on the page
Violet
Shop nowFor the drama
Grey
Shop nowBlack's quieter, more interesting cousin
Before your screen lies to you
Every fountain pen ink here is swatched with the same nib, on the same paper, under the same light. Because if we are going to obsess over colour, we might as well do it properly.
- 001
Harbour Teal
Splits, personality-wise. A pale wash at the top of the stroke, near-black where it gathers.
- Shading
- 3 of 3
- Dry time
- 22s dry
- Flow
- wet flow
- Sheen
- faint copper in the pools
- 002
Foxglove
Looks innocent. Warmer on cream, cooler on white, and beautifully well behaved in a fine nib.
- Shading
- 2 of 3
- Dry time
- 14s dry
- Flow
- moderate flow
- Sheen
- no sheen
- 003
Bruise Violet
A little dramatic. Slow to dry, but the sheen turns up wherever the ink has puddled.
- Shading
- 3 of 3
- Dry time
- 31s dry
- Flow
- wet flow
- Sheen
- gold at the stroke ends
- 004
Marigold Bleed
Not here to whisper. Too pale for daily notes, exact for margins and corrections.
- Shading
- 2 of 3
- Dry time
- 11s dry
- Flow
- dry flow
- Sheen
- no sheen
- 005
Slate Ink
Does the boring things brilliantly. Flat, legible and perfectly happy on cheap paper.
- Shading
- 1 of 3
- Dry time
- 16s dry
- Flow
- moderate flow
- Sheen
- no sheen
- 006
Wisteria Wash
One ink, two personalities. Barely there in a fine nib, a different colour entirely in a broad.
- Shading
- 3 of 3
- Dry time
- 26s dry
- Flow
- wet flow
- Sheen
- no sheen
- 007
Sea Fog
Trust us, it's green. Looks grey until it dries, which is another reason a photograph cannot do this job.
- Shading
- 2 of 3
- Dry time
- 19s dry
- Flow
- moderate flow
- Sheen
- no sheen
- 008
Oxblood
Black in bad lighting. Red when it matters. Dark enough for the desk, dramatic by a window.
- Shading
- 2 of 3
- Dry time
- 24s dry
- Flow
- wet flow
- Sheen
- green at high saturation
- 009
Graphite Wash
Pencil energy, ink commitment. Shades like nothing else in the grey drawer.
- Shading
- 3 of 3
- Dry time
- 13s dry
- Flow
- dry flow
- Sheen
- no sheen
- 010
Midnight Bottle
Three colours in a trench coat. Blue in the bottle, near-black on the page, red where it gathers.
- Shading
- 2 of 3
- Dry time
- 21s dry
- Flow
- moderate flow
- Sheen
- red at the pools
First you sample. Then you obsess.
Pick your colours
Three, six or twelve. Work down the swatch book, add whatever you are curious about, and watch the per-sample price fall as the pack grows. We don't judge.
Fill your pen, twice
Each ink sample is 2 ml in a labelled vial, with a pipette and a card of the same 100 gsm sheet we swatch on. Enough to live with a colour, not just look at it.
See what sticks
Love it? Buy the bottle. Don't? Excellent. You just saved yourself two thousand rupees and the shelf space.
Your little ink problem
Nothing but potential. Add a few from the swatch book. A pack of six is the cheapest way to be wrong about five of them.
- Empty
₹0singles are ₹95Prices are still drying. Nothing here is final.
Tiny vials, big journey. Packed flat in a padded envelope and posted across India. Rates and delivery times are still drying. Nothing here is set.
From the ink-stained journal
Notes from the decanting bench. These three are placeholders until the first posts are written.
Same ink, different paper. What sorcery is this?
6 min read
Your ink has shading. It just doesn't know it yet.
4 min read
How much writing can you squeeze out of 2 ml?
3 min read
Things people ask
- Okay, but how much writing is 2 ml?
- Two fills of a standard converter, or about a week of ordinary note-taking. Enough to stop guessing.
- What exactly am I getting in this tiny vial?
- A labelled glass vial with a pipette, plus a card of the same 100 gsm sheet every swatch was written on, so your test and ours are comparable.
- Can I trust the pictures?
- As much as you can trust a screen to show you colour. Which is exactly why we sell samples.
- Why stop at one?
- Because one sample answers one question. A pack of three settles an argument inside a single drawer; a pack of six tells you which drawer you actually live in. The per-sample price drops as the pack grows, which is rather the point.
- Can you send tiny bottles of ink to my house?
- Across India, yes. Rates and delivery times are not confirmed yet, so nothing on this page should be read as a promise about either.
- So where's the big bottle?
- Not here. Not yet. We're here for the bit before the bottle. When you find the one, you will know exactly what to go and buy.
Get the good inkling
New colours, restocks, and the occasional thing worth writing home about. Nothing noisy, and nothing sold on.
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