

I've listed all my inks and all my pens in their respective pages.


I'll finish off, bellow, with some 4x4 closer photos of each of the swatches. Kingdom Note Dorcus hopei binodulosus is a sinner with it's green sheen and so is Kyo-no-oto Nureba-iro but they don't fit the "black" black category at all. Herbin Pearl Noire did a much better job than I expected though maybe a prejudged them too harshly. Montblanc Permanent Black, Lamy Black, and J. Noodler's Black and Eel Black were rather disappointing, and Dark Matter wasn't as Dark as I expected. It's also a fairly neutral grey colour with not much bias towards red, green or blue. This seems to be backed up by how the average colour of Polar Black is the only ink to drop into the 20s. If I was to pick a winner (of blackest black) from my eyes, for both papers, it would be, very surprisingly, Noodler's Polar Black.
