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Favorite blackest black ink? (lemm.ee)

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I own a rainbow of beautiful colors, mostly from Diamine, but what I really miss a a truly black ink for formal days. I have a big bottle of Parker Quink Black, but I almost never use it as it's actually a middle-to-dark-gray ink even with my flowiest pens.

So what are your favorite, deeply saturated black inks?

Bonus points if it's (very) affordable and easily available in Europe (so no noodlers).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Waterman’s is not very saturated, it’s more on the reddish side, and it isn’t that cheap. Perle Noire doesn’t have any issues I know of with even vulcanized rubber pens (though I wouldn’t keep them inked for months with any modern formulation), so the “safety” is pretty good…

Pelikan is indeed brown tints that are saturated enough to look kind of black on most papers.