Best Black Ink?

[SeeksAdvice]

Never tried Aurora.

I am a fan of carbon blacks. Waterproof, fadeproof. Only time you can't use them is when the thing you are writing on is highly likely to get smeared. For those instances, I have X-Feather and Old Manhattan Blackest Black. For use with people who are paranoid about working with permanent black inks, I have Noodler's Borealis Black.

 

Only black I have that I'm not really fond of is Take-Sumi, which seems to have been changed since I sampled it.

Somehow I doubt that Aurora Black, or even Noodler's blacks, will survive on the page as long as carbon blacks such as Kiwa-Guro and Carbon Black will.

[Nibwitz]

My favorite black is Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black. Because it's not completely black; not everyone likes the blackest of blacks. Aurora is very black and very wet/smooth but feathers on lesser quality paper. Pelikan is 'better behaved' and because it's just a little bit less dark black it's friendlier to the eyes when reading the text you've written.

[Fabienne]

Noodler's Black.