on saleJacques Herbin Rouge Grenat - 30ml Bottled Ink

This is a very intersting ink. I have been using it in a few of my pens for some months now and it is rapidly becoming one of my favorites. Try it, you may like it. This is a saturated tone of red ink yet with some shading. It's not the kind of color that screams off the page yet it stands out well enought for editing printed draft text. This ink is quite "respectable" and a serious choice for general writing.

I should have ordered a sample first, because this ink did not look as red as I expected it would when I wrote with it. It appears to me to be a very brown-red on several kinds of paper. My shopping experience with Goulet Pens is always great. But I'm not a fan of this particular ink color. Other than its color, it does seen to perform well. So there's that ;-)

It's a non-Shading, non-Shimmering ink, so if that's what you want this ink probably isn't for you. But if you want a nice mono-shade ink that has deep saturation, goes down nice and wet, if you love to see ink glisten while it is being laid down, then this pen should given serious consideration.J. Herbin Rouge Grenat has been accused of accumulating crud on the nib. I experienced a lot of Nib Creep on my Pilot Metropolitan <1.0> but absolutely none in my Faber-Castell Loom , so it depends on the pen. The ink colour does not match the sample displayed here at GouletPens, which isn't unexpected considering that different pens with their different feeds and nibs will likely produce different shades of the same ink on different papers when displayed on non-Calibrated computer monitors. Rouge Grenat has a Brown overcast to the base colour; it's isn't really a Brown, but neither is it a Red, or Wine colour, either. I really like the shade. There's minimal Shading but nothing excessive, nor objectionable. The finer the nib the less chance of seeing any Shading at all, but even withand <1.1> nibs the shading is Conservative, making it a good ink, say, for the Workplace and/or Executive. Since it is a wet ink that takes a little longer than usual to dry you will need to be careful not to smear it; but that goes for most inks, no? I did not experience any feathering, nor Bleed-through on Rhodia, ClaireFontaine and Leuchtturm papers, although a whole page will probably show Ghosting. J. Herbin Rouge Grenat quickly became a favourite ink of mine and I will probably re-order when the time comes. What I do not like about this ink is the bottle. It is very squat and the pen holder is not very convenient, the typical fat, or normal sized, pen will roll off the indentation; it is therefore of limited utility. The 20mm bottle mouth opening should accommodate most pens. But, because the bottle is squat you will probably need to directly fill from the Converter or use a syringe to fill the converter or cartridge.

Nice color! I've never written with red ink before. I got some assistance from the lovely folks at Goulet, some suggestions given what I said I wanted. This comes out a kind of orangey red, ever so slightly in the direction of brown, on Tomoe River paper. It's subtle, and I've been happy to write several pages at a go with it. (I was kind of expecting that red would be too much, but in fact this is a really nice color to write with.)

I can see this as the perfect balance between a formal and a very cool vibrant red