• Reviews around shade (4.60 of 5)

    Pilot Iroshizuku Bottled Fountain Pen Ink, Take-Sumi, Bamboo Charcoal, Black (69224)

    • smooth as silk; nice shade of red; cool-looking bottle
    • It has excellent shading characteristics when used on Clairfontaine and Rhodia papers with a wide nib (bold or stub)
    • I’ve always been drawn to brown & rusty colours, as well as particular shades of orange
    • Gorgeous shading.
    • I enjoy having an ink which I can tell apart from pretty much any other generic.-Writes well: The ink's viscosity creates a nice variable shading effect when you are writing
    • Love the ink - lovely shading and wonderful colors
    • fantastic shade of blue, the pigment and flow are consistent
    • It dries to a beautiful color and has gorgeous shading.
    • This is my favorite blue shade in the Iroshizuku line
    • The shading is insane
    • I love the color and shading of this ink.
    • In my Pilot Custom 74 this ink flow beautifully an has some of the best shading I've seen.
    • Kon Peki is a great shade of blue which flows well
    • Coupled with a calligraphy pen or a wide nib, you'll see nice shading as well, not so much with a fine nib, but it is there if you look close.
    • Nice wet ink and nice shading.
    • Amazon, please don't combine reviews of different products on the same page!This is a gorgeous medium blue ink that flows fairly "wet" in most pens and has nice shading.
    • Thankfully, I struck my preferred shade of blue on my second purchase
    • I also ordered the Kiri-Same, which has excellent shading and is perfect for sketching
    • The Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki ink is a lovely shade of blue and turquoise and in the right fountain pen, will give you shades of both colors
    • Letters will have lighter & darker shades throughout their body, yielding neat patterns.-I haven't really experienced a lot of drying within the nib
    • This ink has wonderful shading qualities and very little feathering
    • While the pinkish-orange shade may not be quite as versatile a colour for everyday writing (vs
    • I'd never liked ink cartridges and wanted a distinctive shade of blue.
    • Really nice shading
    • A gorgeous teal with fantastic shading.
    • I am not sure if I ordered the Ama-Iro from this seller but it is a beautiful shade of blue that is fun to play with.
    • It flows well and offers excellent shading.
    • The shading is beautiful, and the ink is so nice and smooth
    • Beautiful shade, I absolutely love it.
    • It's purple shade is nice as well
    • I wanted something with good shading (i.e. variation in the darkness of blue depending on the strokes and number of passes), and something a bit different from the classic dark blue ink (like Lamy's navy blue)
    • It works great, especially in a medium or broader nib, the shading is truly amazing.
    • It works great, especially in a medium or broader nib, the shading is truly amazing.
    • You get some really cool shading even with a fine nib
    • Excellent flow, nice shading, and I've never had any trouble with cleaning it out of a pen
    • A wonderfully consistent and well behaved ink which provides very nice shading and does not bleed or feather
    • It dries to a beautiful rich shade, makes me think of a clematis flower
    • The blue is a really nice shade, and is very readable
    • This is a beautiful shade and the quality is as good as every with this brand of ink.
    • Thankfully, I struck my preferred shade of blue on my second purchase
    • I absolutely love the shade of ink
    • , I really love this gorgeous shade./Another fine addition to my ever-growing collection of Iroshizuku’s premier inks
    • This ink also lends itself to good shading, going from dark blue to lighter blue.
    • It turns out to be a lovely shade of blue
    • This is a beautiful shade of pink ink
    • Inspired by architect Renzo Piano's concept ink sketches in a blue-green ink, we went hunting for the perfect shade ... as an architect and an artist, we are totally enchanted with using this forest green ink in our Mont Blanc fountain pen as well as in our Lamy all aluminum fountain pen w/ a medium nib ...
    • This shade, while vibrant, also posseses a “delicate” quality so prevalent in the colours indigenous to Japan
    • I don't have another that even comes close to how much I love this shade of blue
    • In my pen it is a translucent dark shade when light penetrates the ink, a very fetching effect that can't be captured well without seeing it in person
    • I’ve always been drawn to brown & rusty colours, as well as particular shades of orange
    • It has exquisite shading, and it is a very gentle grey.
    • The Cerulean Blue is a super shade to write in..
    • The blue is just an amazing bright, well shading color
    • The blue is just an amazing bright, well shading color
    • This is a beautiful shade of blue purple, I have many inks from Iroshizuku
    • Kon-peki has nice shading, a pleasant color, and it's a perfect match for my blue Pilot Vanishing Point pen--which happens to come from the same company
    • Nice shade of blue and bottle is classy
    • It is a great shade of teal
    • This is a very nice shade of green.
    • As for the ink itself, the Tsuki-yo variant offers excellent shading, smoothness and colour
    • The ink changes color as it dries, which is a real treat to watch as you write, and the final result is lively and well-shaded.
    • The color is beautiful (Scotch Grey) and displays lovely shading with a fine to medium nib
    • Great shading, great flow, works well in all my fountain pens.
    • Great shading, great flow, works well in all my fountain pens.
    • Now take that wonderful dark blue teal and throw in AMAZING shading potential as well as a generous amount of sheen with a wet pen, on the right paper, in the right light and you have what is one of the most amazing inks I have ever written with.
    • Great shading and color.
    • As for the ink it is very fine but the reason I chose to give it 4 stars is because I think the color of the label on the bottle is a brighter shade of green than the actual ink, which sort of threw me off
    • The shading on this ink is actually what I love best about it
    • so I adjusted it slightly to get it a bit wetter for this ink because I wanted good shading and to help the feed keep up with my signature
    • Beautiful ink, lovely color shading and well behaved
    • It was a wonderful shade of blue, exactly as represented by the color selection provided by the vendor, and it came in a lovely solid glass container versus a plastic knock-off in the name of cost conservation in production.
    • The color is a gorgeous shade of grey, and can be compared most closely to that of a pencil
    • the shading on these inks is absolutely gorgeous.
    • The blue is a lovely shade, and with the right paper you will really enjoy it.
    • Beautiful shade of blue and is a great performer in my Pilot Metropolitan.
    • Color has some nice shading for a black ink while still remaining dark
    • A beautiful and full bodied ink, excellent color, shading and saturation in every
    • It is a great shade of pink-orange
    • Not much shading (again, very dark), but it's smooth and gorgeous and very rich looking.
    • The shading of it is very dynamic and will adapt to whatever paper you are using at the time.
    • If you like shades of green then you'll like this.
    • The shade of this ink is beautiful and it flows through every pen I have used it in perfectly
    • Would recommend to: Those who want a change from black and want a less vibrant shade of blue
    • The ink writes well and is a lovely shade of blue
    • It's almost a neon-glow orange, and it dries as vivid as it comes out of the pen.
    • I use it with an adapter in a couple of Parker pens - Duofold International and a Sonnet, as well as in a Cross Fountain pen
    • It's probably not dark enough for most business use, but the color itself is so beautiful both in the bottle and on paper, as well as in the pen if you're using a demonstrator, that it just makes me stop writing from time to time and stare at it dreamily
    • I use this ink for notes to myself and friends, as well as for making notes in my reading material.
    • Very useable even for work, as well as for casual journaling.2
    • Inspired by architect Renzo Piano's concept ink sketches in a blue-green ink, we went hunting for the perfect shade ... as an architect and an artist, we are totally enchanted with using this forest green ink in our Mont Blanc fountain pen as well as in our Lamy all aluminum fountain pen w/ a medium nib ...