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Here's a light, cool grey from J. Herbin. I like it much more than the only other real grey I've tried (Noodler's Lexington Gray).

 

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http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/q712/FiveCatKnittery/JHerbinGrisNuage3.jpg

 

On a side note, my reviews are going to look a little different for a while. The new computer is too new for my old scanner, so all new reviews (most of which are already written) will be photographed using sunlight and a custom white balance to better represent the true color of the inks. I'll also be going back and re-photographing some old reviews with inaccurate scans.

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I'm a fan of grey inks, generally, and this one is well-behaved and a very pretty shade--but it's just too light to use for regular writing. I'm glad I tried a sample rather than a whole bottle.

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It looks a lot like Kiri-Same to me, do you have any of that around?

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Gris Nuage is quite light - I like it for that quality, but can definitely understand that it would make the ink impractical for, well, many practical uses.

 

Kiri Same is a bit too red for me. Here's a link to my review of it http://pentulant.blogspot.com/2012/09/ink-review-pilot-iroshizuku-kiri-same.html

 

Here's a link to another blog post with several grays next to each other. http://pentulant.blogspot.com/2013/02/ink-review-montblanc-albert-einstein.html

 

Love the grays.

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It looks a lot like Kiri-Same to me, do you have any of that around?

 

Kiri-same is darker and warmer in tone. Gris Nuage is bluer and much lighter.

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It looks a lot like Kiri-Same to me, do you have any of that around?

 

Kiri-same is darker and warmer in tone. Gris Nuage is bluer and much lighter.

 

Wooooooo.... that has peaked my interest. THanks for the reply!!

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I tried my gris nuage with a TWSBI Diamond 580 (medium nib), and I love the way the ink dries in various shades depending on how much ink was laid on the page.

 

However the ink behaved really really badly with the TWSBI, there were constant hard starts and rail-roading, even though I've used apache sunset on my TWSBI with no issue.

 

I then tried the ink with the Lamy Safari (bold nib) and after a little tweaking with the nib (the ink just wasn't coming out) the ink came out with no issue. But I find the ink to be very watery, I am in constant fear that the ink in my words would lose surface tension and just merge into a blob.

 

Now, I was using a sample from Goulet Pens, which I've not had any issues with before, but I don't know whether that may have given me a different experience to everyone else.

 

Let me emphasize that I LOVE the colour of the ink, I just can't use it with my pens.

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Great review :) Not a grey ink man myself but have a bottle of MB Oyster that I may give a go having seen the possibilities.

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