Akkerman #9 New Eastern Indigo Avenue

[white_lotus]

Akkerman inks are available through Vanness. This is a muted blue. Tested on Mohawk via Linen and Hammermill 28lb inkjet papers. Usually I use Sailor inks, so it's probably not fair to try other inks as they often don't measure up in the same way. That doesn't mean this ink is bad or anything like that, it's quite decent. Just it's not a Sailor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[visvamitra]

Quite nice.

[amberleadavis]

WhiteLotus, great review. I think the problem is that this ink is really dry compared to the Sailor inks. It just doesn't flow the same way. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!

[GardenWeasel]

I think maybe Akkerman inks are a great excuse to get a wet writing nib.

[amberleadavis]

Good idea.

[attika89]

I can agree that it's not a wet flowing ink, but I really like it! It can shade really nicely with the right nib.

[white_lotus]

Thanks attika89 for your additional comments. That's good to know. I know there are some wonderful reviews of this ink. So it needs the right pen.

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review.

This is one of the inks I got last year in the FPN Akkermann group buy. It's an interesting shade of blue-grey. The longer I'm on here and the more I read reviews and try inks, the more I get swept off my feet by inks that have some subtlety to the color, and Akkermann #9 does that. Maybe it's because so much of the artwork/graphic design work I've done over the past few years has to be in a very limited palette (read Crayola Classic Colors markers), and while those colors are perfect for that sort of work, sometimes it's nice to branch out into more "grownup" colors. So I find myself reaching for blue-greys and blue-blacks, greens that lean yellow, purples that have depth to them (whether blue or red leaning) and greys that aren't "flat". Even the black inks I like the best aren't necessarily the "blackest" blacks: Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black seems to have a brown undertone; the bottle of vintage Quink Microfilm Black seems to have a blue one; and Iroshihzuku Take-sumi seems to have an almost tactile quality to it.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[white_lotus]

Thanks Ruth for your very perceptive comments.

[FPgal]

This is a helpful review and the ink seems quite nice as well. Sometimes I'm not too excited by this shade of blue but in reality this ink might be a really useful everyday ink. I wonder if the bottle suggested more excitement, as I remember seeing the bottle on the Vanness site and thinking I'd really love one, but was unsure about the ink.

[Pira]

Thank-you for a current review on this ink. I was lucky enough to recieve a bottle this spring and was happy with the colour, but then I'm partial to indigo and don't need it to be any fancier than a pair of well worn jeans. I agree though, this is a dry ink so nib accordingly. Here is my tree on the subject:

 

InkTest Tree: Akkerman ~ #9 Laan van Nieuw Oos-Indigo by Pira Urosevic, on Flickr

Edited August 13, 2015 by Pira

[white_lotus]

Very nice!

[JohnNicholas]

I like it!