Pilot Iroshizuku Fountain Pen Ink – 50 ml Bottle – Kon-peki Deep Azure Blue (Japan Import)

The 26 Pilot Iroshizuku inks are an insane – and yet supremely affordable – luxury that will bring you pleasure every time you use them.For me, the use of a fountain is a profoundly irrational and highly pleasing act. Except for very specific strokes in calligraphy, modern ball point pens and rollerballs provide a reliable, mess-free, waterproof writing experience that is perfectly functional and technically superior to a fountain pen.However, the most important parts of life have almost nothing to do with “technical superiority.”The goal of writing is “connection” and surely the act itself should be pleasurable. A fountain pen (I prefer the Pilot capless Fermo) gliding over a smooth paper is wonderfully self-indulgent and brings out the most irrational and creative side to you. If you are writing for business, the gray, blue, and black Iroshizuku inks all are suitable conservative and yet beautifully packaged and linked to an amazing tradition of writing in Japan. If you are note taking, idea journaling, or writing for pleasure, there are many inspiring colors in the Iroshizuku (“color drop”) line. In combination with an ink syringe, it is only a little effort to change out the colors of ink in one or three pens. This shade – Kon-Peki (“cerulean blue”) is a beautiful rich shade of blue.