Darkest Ink

[Randal6393]

Recently, my daughter sent me a bottle of Fabris Guiliana from Venice. A dip pen ink, it beats all the other inks I have by quite a bit. Lovely ink, not sure when I can get more.

 

Enjoy,

[LeonW]

Recently, my daughter sent me a bottle of Fabris Guiliana from Venice. A dip pen ink, it beats all the other inks I have by quite a bit. Lovely ink, not sure when I can get more.

 

Enjoy,

Write a letter to your daughter, she knows where to get more, QED.

[Miz Black Crow]

The darkest blacks I've ever run across are Noodler's Old Manhattan (FPH exclusive) and Organics Studio Charles Darwin. But both have a tendency towards spread, and I had problems with Charles Darwin with bleedthrough, even with a fine hooded nib (which is too bad because it also dried super fast).

Me? I need black ink on occasion, but it doesn't have to be "everything sucked into a black hole so not even light can get out" black. So I like Noodler's Heart of Darkness if I need waterproofness (which Old Manhattan is not -- although it is water resistant); and Quink Black and Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black for most of the rest of the time.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

That's peculiar. My OMBB is black as the night, terrible as the demon, and completely waterproof. Curse you Nathan and your batch-to-batch variation! (I do not have enough experience with blacks to claim that OMBB is the BLACKEST ink in the darkest hole of existence, as I only own the one; however, it is quite a good ink. Too bad black doesn't really excite me...)

[Masque]

OMBB should be waterproof once dry. I have never seen a variation that wasn't. Ruth, are you certain?

[NathanGrimaud]

Has anybody used Diamine Onyx enough to make a comment?

I have, it is a nice black. However if you're using it in a pen with a nib finer than an M, you will most likely be disappointed. Not the blackest of blacks but i would say that it is up there with the darker ones. I quite like it, but if i want a true no light reflecting black-hole type of black i'd go for something different. Hope this helps!

[tonybelding]

 

I don't think I can image a wetter ink than Noodler's Black. My bottle makes every nib I own ~1/2 size wider and smears like crazy.

 

 

That's weird. I've always found Noodler's Black to be somewhat drier than the typical Noodler's, and it makes all my pens write a bit finer. I've never noticed any particular smearing problem with it, unless a pen was starting to get dried out.

 

Now if you want to talk about wet-wet-wet ink. . . Noodler's Legal Lapis.