Naples Blue fulfills a need I've had for some time. While I love Noodler's Navajo Turquoise and (even more so) Waterman South Seas Blue, these colors are too bright and whimsical for use in business. Naples Blue retains some of that turquoise spirit and vividness, but it's dark enough for business use. Best of all, it has superb shading, particularly for a saturated PR color.

Good work, Private Reserve - you've done it again.

I'm a big fan of Naples Blue as well. For a while it was displaced by Noodler's Navy in my stable, but I've come back around to the slightly lighter and greener color. It's a bit cheerier, while still being subdued enough for just about anything. I still enjoy the Navy, but never again will Naples Blue be thrown by the wayside!

I have Naples blues in a couple of pens and I love it. My 3 favorite blues are J.Herbin Blue Mystosis, Naples Blue and PR Midnight Blue. An also ran is Baystate blue. Its blue is fantastic but I don't trust it in most of my pens.

Naples Blue is one of my new standard inks to keep on hand. I don't find it easy enough to read to be my primary everyday ink; but for contrast, it's gorgeous. It's hard not to imagine being by the ocean (even here in the armpit of Missouri) when I see it coming out of my pen.

I agree an excellent colour, been in my rotation for a while now, currently in my PFM

Agree with the comments above! I find Naples has a greater shade range than other blues.

l-o-v-e it!!! i got it in my P45 and reform 1745. but i think it shades the best out of my Laban Kaiser B nib.

I need to get some! It's been on my wishlist for a while.

Naples Blue is my favorite quasi-turquoise ink other than Waterman South Sea Blue--it is just enough darker to read with high contrast and be dignified. I find that when I have Naples in 1 or more pens in home rotation, I don't miss the South Sea Blue in my office Phileas when working at home.

I recently gave bottled Naples Blue with a Hero 360 to a colleague. It looked quite a bit darker in her writing than Naples Blue cartridges do in mine (medium Iridium Point Germany nib on a turned pen by Neil Lavy). Maybe the darker shade is an effect of the wet/bold 360 line and maybe the bottled ink is more concentrated than the cartridges? Any thoughts?

Another property that I just noticed tonight is the lubricating capacity of Naples Blue. I changed a pen that was previously filled with Naples Blue over to MB Racing Green and noticed a marked increase in the feedback from the nib. It actually made the writing experience a bit more pleasant for me, because the nib was ridiculously smooth with Naples Blue - I couldn't tell what was going on down at the business end! Now I know which ink to go to for helping out a rough writer!

Me too. It is an unbelievable ink. Great color, brilliant shading and excellent lubrication. What more could one want? It is now my main ink - it dislodged old manhattan black from its throne.

I love it, WONDERFUL tonal range, great shading, great color, great slickness. Only problem is that its SLOOOW drying

Since my previous post in this thread, I put a Naples Blue cartridge in my Taccia Staccato Jasper Red, which previously had a Tanzanite cartridge, without washing the nib/section first. I wanted to see what the mixed color would look like and also how the nib would behave with a PR different than Tanzanite.

After sitting for a week unused on the desk, the Taccia started immediately this weekend without a preliminary water dip. This is a first for this pen. The ink started out close to Tanzanite, evolved through a series of Prussian blue and dark teal shades, and wrote pure Naples blue within half a page. These 2 PR inks between them have durably improved the tactile performance of a pen that started life just a bit dry. 3 cheers!

And THAT is why I gave away my only bottle of this beautiful ink. As a leftie, I just couldn't take the smearing.