Inkebara - Sand

[yazeh]

Inkebara - Sand

 

Ink Review # 228

 

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🧾 Description

 

Inkebera is Czech company. 

 

Sand is a legible tan with lovely shading. It’s sold as a dual shader. I didn’t notice any of it, until I hit it with water. 

 

 Like most colours in this hue, it lacks lubrication and is unpleasant with F nibs and below. It has a watery like quality and was unpleasant with the fude nib. 

 

I believe it’s best suited for absorbent papers.  

 

I had mishap with my sample, so I ran out of the ink with the flex nib, though in retrospect I’m glad I did.

 

This ink needs a soft and ideally wide nib to make it work. But when it works the colour is luminous.

 

 

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🧪 Chroma

 

 

 

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✍️ Writing Samples (photos only)

I took only LED and daylight photos. 

 

Quotes: 

Translations from the original Czech are provided for reference only. They are unofficial and may differ slightly from published translations.

“In the fight between yourself and the world, side with the world.”
— Franz Kafka, Czech writer

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
— Milan Kundera, Czech novelist

“Too much noise makes silence visible.”
— Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer

“From a certain point onward there is no turning back.”
— Franz Kafka, Czech writer

“A true human being never loses the capacity to see things as fragile and temporary.”
— Karel Čapek, Czech writer

 

Rhodia 

 

 

 

Iroful

 

 

 

Midori 

 

 

 

Tomoe River 

Note: This is the 68 gsm paper, not the thinner 52 gsm version commonly referenced in reviews.

 

 

 

Hammermill 20 lb copy paper

 

 

 

Closeup

 

 

 

 🔍 Comparison

Col-O-ring. Scans are approximative. 

 

 

 

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 💧 Water Test

 

 

 

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 🎨 Artwork

Sahara

Miniature with fountain pen ink. 

Inkebera Sand, Jacques Herbin Rue de la Verrerie, Talens Mixed Sketchbook. 

 

 

 

Purple rose for a blue lady

Anod to Valentine's day.

 

Hongdian 1851 blade nib.

Jacques Herbin Iris Sagesse, Inkebara Sand, Talens Mixed Media Sketchbook.

 

 

 

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- Pens Used: Pilot Kakuno EF, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ stub 1.1), Jinhao 450 fude nib. 

- What I Liked: Trying a different brand, chroma. 

- What I Did Not Like: Watery ink, lack of lubrication. 

- Writing Experience: unpleasant in general.  

 

 🧷 Ink Characteristics

- Shading: Yes. 

- Ghosting: Faint with a very wet pen.  

- Bleed Through: Same as above. 

- Flow Rate: Dryish. 

- Lubrication: yuck.

- Nib Dry-out: Did not notice. 

- Start-up: No problems. 

- Saturation: Not saturated. 

- Sheen: Only with a very wet pen

- Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Did not notice.

- Nib Creep / Crud: Did not notice.

- Staining (Pen): No. 

- Clogging: No.

- Cleaning: Easy

- Water Resistance:  None. 

 

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 🛒 Availability

 

- Available in 60 ml bottles. 

https://inkebara.com/#wheretobuy

 

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 💬 Closing

Like most tans, this ink is very deficient in lubrication. For art work it was fun to use, as it captures well the golden sand of the Sahara. 

 

No fountain pens were hurt in preparing this review.

 

Please don’t hesitate to share your experience, writing samples, or any other comments — the more the merrier.  

 

[Sailor Kenshin]

Yes, @yazeh, it does just look sandy when applied with pen, but oh that chroma!  And artwork!   Probably does best with a brush?
 

Love these Unobtainium reviews, many thanks.  👏🏻 😻 🖋

[yazeh]

49 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Yes, @yazeh, it does just look sandy when applied with pen, but oh that chroma!

Earth has the same chroma. It is slightly darker and available.  

49 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

 And artwork!   Probably does best with a brush?
 

The first work was done with fountain pen and water-brush. The second was done with water brush only.  

49 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Love these Unobtainium reviews, many thanks.  👏🏻 😻 🖋

Welcome! 

[inkstainedruth]

This one I think I can pass on.  I don't do enough drawing these days to make it worth it, and unless this is in a really broad/web nib it appears to be a little on the pale side for writing.  But thanks as usual for the comprehensive review and fun artwork.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

20 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

This one I think I can pass on.

And it's out of stock for now.  

20 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

 I don't do enough drawing these days to make it worth it, and unless this is in a really broad/web nib it appears to be a little on the pale side for writing.

It is legible but on the pale side. Earth is the darker version of this ink. I have a sample of this one.

 

20 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

 But thanks as usual for the comprehensive review and fun artwork.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Welcome!

 

[LizEF]

Thanks, @yazeh!  Great selection of quotes, there.  Apparently I prefer Earth to Sand (which is fine - sand gets everywhere, like glitter  ).  But mostly, I prefer your drawings.  The first totally puts me in the Sahara (a feat first accomplished by various novels read in my teens), and the second is just plain adorable.   I hope you and your two sweethearts have a wonderful Valentine's Day.

[yazeh]

5 hours ago, LizEF said:

Thanks, @yazeh!

5 hours ago, LizEF said:

  Great selection of quotes, there.  Apparently I prefer Earth to Sand (which is fine - sand gets everywhere, like glitter  ). 

looking forward to testing Earth, Houston.  

5 hours ago, LizEF said:

But mostly, I prefer your drawings. 

Thanks!

 

5 hours ago, LizEF said:

The first totally puts me in the Sahara (a feat first accomplished by various novels read in my teens),

The power of imagination and books. An art that is sadly overtaken by Social Media.

 

5 hours ago, LizEF said:

and the second is just plain adorable.  

Thanks!

5 hours ago, LizEF said:

I hope you and your two sweethearts have a wonderful Valentine's Day.

We will. I hope you and your boys enjoyed the day. I'm sure they fought to get hugs. 😺