Jacques Herbin 1670 Ink Bottle – Caroube de Chypre
$45
$76.95
This colour is an amazing warm brown with a reddish-terracotta tint, great shading (and a golden shimmer), and if you’re using something like Clairefontaine or Tomoe River paper you have the added surprise of a gorgeous highly visible green sheen. It didn’t like the Moleskine (but then most ink doesn’t), but performed beautifully with everything else I tried it on, and was even useable on standard copy paper with a fine/medium nib. I initially tried the ink in sample form, and was so impressed with it that I immediately had to order a full bottle. I don’t even normally like brown inks, but Caroube de Chypre didn’t care.
J. Herbin