on saleLAMY ruby - Ink Sample

Lamy crystal family is solid ink

I absolutely love this ink! It is more of a 'strawberry' red than the name implies, but I think the product photos match the color pretty well. I have only ever used one other fountain pen ink and am fairly new to the community, so I don't have much to compare it with, but this ink is pretty great. I'm a lefty so when I was looking for a new ink one of the things I was focused on is dry time. This ink has roughly a 15 second dry time, which took a bit of adjusting since my other ink has a 5-8 second dry time. It only took me a few minutes to get adjusted to though, so not much of problem. The other thing I care a lot about with ink is how it handles the paper I use. I tend to burn through notebooks pretty fast, so I buy cheap notebooks. Cheap notebooks means low quality paper. Lamy Ruby didn't bleed or ghost horribly. This ink checked all the boxes for me! And I will defiantly be recommending it and Goulet Pens :)

This is not the deep red that the word ruby invokes. It's a little pale, almost heading towards pink. The shading is nice but otherwise I find little to recommend this.