pens, inks, stores, companies and about the pleasure of owning a fine penColours: Blue, Black, Night Blue, Turquoise, Sienna
Although the square bottles were smart good looking ink bottle but the bottles were next to useless in terms of fill up a pen. There is style and there is function. The best is when the two meet. The newer square ink bottle is a good design and is available holding green, turquoise blue, dark blue, black, royal blue and red inks.
I have used the blue ink, and found it to be a "general, medium blue". Flow was good and there was a reasonable dry time. That seems to be generally consistent with comments I have seen from others. I saw the blue bottle heart-shaped bottle in Paris and just had to have it. It is virtually impossible to get the ink in Vancouver. So I was less conscious of the price, and it is the price that I hear the most concerning comments.
The Dupont ink went from these stunning flat bottles that were basically useless in terms of getting a nib submerged in the ink. Dupont now produces a more useful, and also very attractive, square glass bottle that has enough height to make filling a fountain pen easier.
Yet another of the innovative design for a ink bottle, but again, not effective when trying to get the nib of a pen full submerged in the ink.