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It seems Levenger is family company that offers a wide variety of products. Levenger designs many of its products, with approximately 75% of its product line being proprietary. The company describes itself as a champion of Slow Tech. Levenger CEO and co-founder Steve Leveen has aligned the company with the Conscious Capitalism movement. To that end, the company has created an initiative called Partnering for Good, which pays product-based royalties to nonprofit institutions whose missions are connected to reading or learning.


Among other things the company offers a line of fountain pen iks.



  1. Amethyst
  2. Blazing Sunset
  3. Blue Bahama
  4. Cardinal Red
  5. Claret
  6. Cobalt Blue
  7. Cocoa
  8. Empyrean
  9. Forest Green
  10. Gemstone Green
  11. Greystoke
  12. Pinkly
  13. Pomegrenate
  14. Raven Black
  15. Regal
  16. Shiraz
  17. Skies of Blue
  18. Smokey (discontinued)
  19. True Teal


Levenger's Amethyst is impressive, strongly saturated and quite vivid purple. I enjoy this ink but it has some shortcomings - it's difficult to clean and may cause bleedthrough on some papers..



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Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport, B




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Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Classic Sport, B



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Oxford, Kaweco Classic Sport, B




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That's a pretty color. Which is bad -- my table of inks I want to buy (and who has them for sale) is really, really long....

Thanks for the review. And not....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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