Robert Oster Chocolate

December 28, 2016

There was a big splashdown earlier this year with the Robert Oster Signature inks from Australia. Both Vanness and Anderson Pens carry the inks and Goulet Pens has the inks listed, but all out of stock, so they may well be waiting on their shipment to arrive. A number of people tried them and seemed to like them. Certainly it's a great boon for fountain pen users in Australia and Middle Earth (NZ) to have inks made right there in-country rather than expensively shipping them from the far corners of the world.

One of the inks I received from an inky friend is RO Chocolate. You'd think a color with that name would be some kind of brown, but this is a kind of deep red. The dry times are fairly reasonable. Decent wetness, but wetter pens and nibs might be preferred depending on the look that you want. So if you like deep reds, this might be an ink for you, the shading is pleasant.