J. Herbin Fountain Pen Ink - 30 ml Bottled - Gris Nuage

I use a fine tip pilot metropolitan, and the ink comes out about as dark as pencil lead. It's a runny ink, though, and creates a wider line than a dry ink would. It doesn't write on cheap paper very well. Still, it's a nice, soft gray with a very slight hint of lavender. It flows quickly, so you go through it faster than drier inks.

It can be reluctant to come out but seems to have a watery clumping effect. It didn't go down smoothly, looks blotchy. Is more of a light grey than little to no bluish tint. I was hoping for a bluish grey, that's not what this is.

I like the permanence of this 'Gris Nisage' gray ink by J.Herbin - but deducted 1 star because of the purple tint.To make this ink into a gray that I like I created this color recipe: I mixed 6 drops of J.Herbin 'Amber de... B' (yellow-ish ink) with 3 eye-dropper fulls of the 'Gris'.Success! I now have the waterproof grey ink color I want.I'm using both grey colors in 2 Jinhao 922 fountain pens I bought in the same order. A match made in heaven!There was barely enough packaging to keep everything from breaking - but they survived the shipping process.

I purchased this ink because of two factors: one, because I loved the color I saw in several swatches of this product, and two, because I liked my experience with a sample of another ink by J. Herbin. Naturally, I was disappointed when my first attempt at using the ink with a Platinum Preppy 03 nib resulted in borderline invisible text, since all the swatches I’d seen were perfectly legible.However, as I proceeded to use the ink to take notes, I realized something: the smaller your handwriting is, the better and darker this ink becomes. All of the gorgeous color variation I’d seen in reviews of this color suddenly appeared once I reduced the size of my handwriting.I think you can achieve a similar effect if you write or draw much more slowly. However, for note-taking purposes, I prefer a smaller text size for better speed!

Such a beautiful color.. of all the reds that are out there, this one is really a brilliant color, very vibrant and bold. As with all the colors by J Herbin, I recently purchased this ink to use with my fountain pens, and it goes wonderfully with my Pelikan M600 Pink special edition fountain pen. Once you buy a bottle of J herbin ink, you want to add a few more colors to your collection. My other favorites that I own are : vert pre (superb green, mix it with some blue and see the teal you create), bleu pervenche, (medium blue, not too light nor too dark) violette pensee, (you gotta have a violet), rose tendresse (on sale at the goulet pen company when I bought it, very sweet pink) and the best is cyclamen (this is a must have!).

I bought this ink wanting a sketching ink for a fine fountain pen, but it's a bit too light, and doesn't shade quite as well as I'd read in reviews, I love J. Herbin... but I'm having a hard time finding a use for this ink. My first less-than-stellar experience with the company in 15 years, so don't let it sway you from the line... others might find it more useful than I did, which is why I've given it 4 stars. It's great ink, just like all of J.H.'s products, but I just don't know what you'd do with a gray this light... maybe good for artists that use 2 fountain pens, for shading?

I love Herbin inks and this one does not disappoint. The ink color does have a bit of a lavender cast in certain light. I find it pleasant. There are many ways to create gray and this is one of them!

I have used this ink before which is the nicest light gray for writing with nibs.I'm a calligrapher and J.Herbin inks are excellent but I lost this color and needed it ASAP.The 5 starts go also to the seller because I was in a rush and the ink arrived pretty fast (2 days as expected).I will buy from this seller again.Thankssss

Good enough and as fountain pen ink unexceptionable, but something seems to have gone awry in translation: this tint isn't burgundy, at least to my eye. It's on the violet side of red. Rouge bourgogne is available in bottles but not, it appears, in cartridges. There's the rub.

Good product that does exactly what is expected.

Very happy with these cartridges for my new pen.

great colours

Chi ama le stilo ha sempre voglia di provare nuovi inchiostri, ed è bello che la Herbin proponga cartucce standard con così ampia varietà di colori, che permettono prove agili e serene. Oltretutto i bussolotti in alluminio sono deliziosi.Però con l'acquisto di altre tonalità mi erano arrivate confezioni danneggiate.Fortunatamente, invece, con questo e con un altro presi assieme le confezioni sono impeccabili.Descrivere a parole un'inchiostro non è semplice; posso dire che sui miei schermi la tonalità riportata in foto corrisponde abbastanza bene ma non ne rende la bellezza.Dal vivo, sul tappo della confezione il colore è un grigio tendente all'azzurro avio, mentre sul disegno dell'etichetta ha sfumature violacee.In realtà le sfumature avio per me sono totalmente assenti, e l'inchiostro lo definirei un grigio antracite con una dominante viola, che risulta ben evidente alla luce solare, un po' meno alla luce alogena.Il colore è saturo, profondo, ma sono presenti sfumature di tonalità molto gradevoli.È un colore particolare, ma non stanca, e la pagina scritta risulta piacevolmente leggera e leggibile. Trovo che si abbini molto bene ai rossi con dominante viola, o con i verdi intensi e brillanti.È fluido, scorre abbastanza bene, si asciuga sufficientemente veloce. Su carta da fotocopie 80gr di buona qualità non spiuma e non trapassa, risultando quasi invisibile sul retro.In definitiva per me è un inchiostro intrigante che varrà la pena acquistare in calamaio.