Herbin Bleu Nuit

[girlieg33k]

I started a new rotation of pens this week. While I was inking pens, I decided to handwrite a few mini-reviews on each ink, with swab samples. To save time, I scanned everything, so colors may vary depending on your monitor. I'm limited to posting 600pix wide images here, but click on the image or the link below it to view the full-size scanned image. The full-sized image may give a better, sharper representation of each ink color.

 

http://girlieg33k.googlepages.com/herbin-bleu-nuit_600pix.jpg

Click here to view full-size scanned image

Edited October 9, 2007 by girlieg33k

[Readymade]

When I was using this ink, when wet it had a purple tint, which disappeared as the ink dried into a deep, greyish blue. Did that happen to you too?

[dwmatteson]

Thanks for the very nice sample and review. I have a bottle of Blue Nuit I bought to put into my Pelikan Niagara Falls. I think the colors should complement nicely. Now I just need to make some room in my rotation....

 

Don

Edited October 4, 2007 by dwmatteson

[acolythe]

Could you repost the scan please. It seems to be gone

Barry

[Neill78]

When I was using this ink, when wet it had a purple tint, which disappeared as the ink dried into a deep, greyish blue. Did that happen to you too?

 

This happens to me too. I was surprised at how purple the ink was (not disappointed, though), but when I turned the page back it had totally changed. Watching it dry is kind of like watching twilight fade.

 

Neill

[kiff7]

I found it changed colour quite a lot as it dried too - from almost a mauve to a grey blue, or a blue-black.

 

 

When I was using this ink, when wet it had a purple tint, which disappeared as the ink dried into a deep, greyish blue. Did that happen to you too?

 

[calliej]

oooh I like this colour - thanks for the review..........

[prasinos]

I like this color too. When I first used it, it seemed too "washed out". But with time I started to feel that it has some "strange quality" in it.

It looks more vibrant than, say, Noodler's inks, and somehow more "pure".

It also dries to a nice classic blue-black color (more blue than black).

Edited September 8, 2008 by prasinos

[macthemaths]

I like your Bleu Nuit much better than mine. I wonder if this is a pen/paper/scanner/monitor variation or whether JH have reformulated this colour?

[GeeTee]

I like your Bleu Nuit much better than mine. I wonder if this is a pen/paper/scanner/monitor variation or whether JH have reformulated this colour?

 

Same here. I have a bottle Blue nuit since last friday and it looks like a watered down version of the colour in this review. It also has a weirs sweet smell.

 

 

[tcheuchter]

It also dries to a nice classic blue-black color (more blue than black).

Bought a bottle at Laywine's in Toronto after girlieg33k's review. Bottle is now almost a year old....not quite but close. It dries a nice blue-black-blue.....more blue than black.....like the quote says. I like the ink.

Edited September 9, 2008 by tcheuchter

[futhark]

My bottle of Bleu Nuit goes on the paper as a medium lavender and stays that way. I always wondered if the bottle had been mislabeled. Nevertheless, it has great shading and I like to use it occasionally. At least one ink vendor on the net has a color swatch on his/her site that shows that purplish tint instead of the blue that is in the very nice review here.

[Strang]

My Bleu Nuit also tends more to lavender and purplish blue-black than to the blue in this scan (on my monitor anyway).

[Gran]

Thanks much for the review. I have found the following two links helpful to use in conjunction with reviews, when trying to decide upon another ink.

 

 

http://www.rmimaging.com/projects/inks/inks.html This lists the hue and chroma values of inks, and their light value.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...2/CIExy1931.svg This is a color chart with hue values. Another FPNer posted it recently. I think it's a nifty chart!

 

 

This ink is listed as being a bit more in the lavendar and purplish, so am guessing what I see on my monitor is too blue.

Edited March 9, 2009 by Gran