on saleSailor Ink Studio 464 - 20ml Bottled Ink

(Review based on use with Herbin dip pen and MF Sailor Pro Gear Slim)This ink's color hits the sweet spot for me; it's rich, vibrant, and saturated without looking dark/black where the ink pools/shades, and it's nice and legible from a distance or in finer pens. It's a great teal that looks gorgeous on Tomoe and still quite nice on cheap copy paper. I'd say it's on the wetter side, but not the wettest ink. I put it in my medium-fine Sailor Pro Gear and the weight of my writing looked nearly identical to my writing with my bold Sailor 1911, which was filled with Sailor Manyo Yamabuki which is a true average/medium flow ink (in my opinion). To give you an idea of just how wet it is�wet enough to change the 'weight' of your line strokes depending on the pen and paper you use, but not so wet that I was displeased. Because it's on the wetter side, there's not much shading to speak of; there's sometimes a bit of a halo effect on the letters, or sometimes the first stroke will be a bit darker, but it's pretty much negligible. Maybe if you paired it with a dryer-flowing pen with a bolder nib, it would average out, but I do think that for the most part this is a solid, saturated, what-you-see-is-what-you-get type of ink. And, again. Because it's wetter, on papers like Tomoe, it takes a little while to dry. On copy paper/more absorbent papers, dry time isn't an issue. I love this ink and I think I'll be hard-pressed to find a teal ink that suits my personal tastes better.

As with their pens, beautifully performing ink. Not a sheen or shimmer ink, as much as a saturated beautiful hue which performs well.

I was just coasting through the colors, looking at Caribbean colors, like the color of the sea in those lovely lagoons. This one looked the part and when I tried it in a Monteverde, it not only ran great... It looked as good as the picture. Sailor inks has this great idea... They give you little number stickers for your pen converter. I put this one's 464 on the Monteverde...will probably just stay there... This is a great color! Very relaxing. Only drawback is that this color is not a good idea on blue or light green paper (of course). Lovely to write with on white or parchment.