Test the waters. Ink the verdict.

Because 50 ml is a lot to regret.

Fountain pen ink samples, decanted from premium bottles into 1, 2 or 4 ml vials. Two millilitres is two or three pen fills: enough to live with a colour for a fortnight and decide whether it's love, or just good lighting. Buy one, or three or more with 5% off each, shipped across India.

Start swatchingFind your colour

Fall for the colour, not the marketing.

Every swatch here is the maker's own photograph, borrowed until ours are dry. When each one has been written out with the same nib, on the same paper, under the same light, these get replaced. Your screen will still lie to you. We would rather not join in.

12 of 107 inks

  1. 54th Massachusetts038Blue-black · Noodler's · Bulletproof

    On request

  2. Ajisai092Violet · Pilot · Iroshizuku

    Sample size
    ₹199

  3. Ama-iro094Blue-black · Pilot · Iroshizuku

    Sample size
    ₹199

  4. Amazonia002Green · Diamine · Forever Pigment

    Sample size
    ₹199

  5. American Aristocracy047Violet · Noodler's

    On request

  6. Apache Sunset048Orange · Noodler's

    Sample size
    ₹199

  7. 005 Apple Blossom024Red · Dominant Industry · Pearl

    Sample size
    ₹299

  8. Aqua Surf001Green · Diamine · Forever Pigment

    Sample size
    ₹199

  9. Arctic Blue018Blue-black · Diamine · Shimmer

    Sample size
    ₹199

  10. 4354 Arista Shadow of Neem058Green · KWZ · Standard

    Sample size
    ₹199

  11. Asa-gao096Blue-black · Pilot · Iroshizuku

    Sample size
    ₹199

  12. 4106 Azure #4050Blue-black · KWZ · Standard

    Sample size
    ₹199
See all 107 inks

95 more on the catalogue page, each with a page of its own.

Because your pen deserves options.

Six drawers of fountain pen ink. Start with the one you keep coming back to, then take a sample from either side of it.

First you sample. Then you obsess.

  1. A shelf of bottled inks in graded colours.

    Pick your colours

    Work down the swatch book and add whatever you are curious about. Three or more, any mix of sizes, and 5% comes off every one. We don't judge.

  2. A fountain pen nib with a drop of ink falling from it.

    Fill your pen, and again

    Pick the vial: 1 ml is one pen fill, 2 ml is two or three, 4 ml is about five — a fortnight of ordinary writing. Same ink either way, three ways to be wrong cheaply.

  3. A hand writing on paper with a dip pen.

    See what sticks

    Love it, and you know which bottle to buy. Hate it, and you just saved two thousand rupees and the shelf space.

A sampler pack for your commitment issues.

Take a whole range in one go: one vial of every ink in the line, 5% under the single prices. Or pick your own from the swatch book, in any mix of sizes.

See all 12 bundles

Delivery is free from ₹1,500 of ink.

From the ink-stained journal

Notes from the decanting bench, on how ink behaves once it leaves the bottle.

Things people ask

How much writing is in one of these?
Count it in pen fills. A 4 ml is about five fills of a standard converter, or a fortnight of ordinary note-taking. A 2 ml is two or three fills, which is long enough to know. A 1 ml is one fill: a colour you want to see on your own paper, in your own pen, before you decide anything at all.
What exactly am I getting in this tiny vial?
A labelled cryo vial: screw-cap plastic, not glass. Nothing else comes with it; write on whatever paper you already use.
Can I trust the pictures?
As much as you can trust a screen to show you colour, which is why we sell samples.
Why stop at one?
Because one sample answers one question. A pack of three settles an argument inside a single drawer; a pack of six tells you which drawer you actually live in. Buy three or more and 5% comes off every vial.
Can you send tiny bottles of ink to my house?
Across India, yes. Delivery is free from ₹1,500 of ink and ₹99 below that, and because every vial is decanted after you order, a parcel usually leaves us in two to three working days.
Anything odd about the shimmer inks?
They carry suspended particles, so give the vial a shake before you fill and use a broader nib with a wetter flow. In an extra-fine or a fine, the particles can clog the feed and choke the ink.
So where's the big bottle?
Not here, not yet. We're here for the bit before the bottle. When you find the one, you will know exactly what to go and buy.