From the J Herbin website:
"J. Herbin is the oldest name in pen inks in the world. M. Herbin created “The Jewel of Inks” in his shop on the Rue des Fosses Saint-Germain in Paris in 1700."
"Each bottle of 30 ml has an integrated pen rest. They are known as “D bottle pen inks. The “D” refers to the old French unit of measure “la Demi Courtine”.
* 30 beautiful colors!
* Non toxic and pH neutral
* Lightfast
* Water based
* Flows smoothly and is fast drying
* All natural dyes
When I first got this ink, I tested it with a Brause Steno (I think) calligraphy nib that had lots of flex. I used Clairefontaine off-white drawing paper and the color of this ink against that paper was spectacular. It had a vintage appeal that I thought was absolutely amazing.
I then loaded it into a Lamy Safari with a .5 Cursive Italic nib and tried it on 90g Clairefontaine paper in a Basics notebook. This paper is super smooth with any pen/ink combination but the Rouille D'Ancre ended up being a super thin/dry ink and on this particular paper, it wasn't a good combination. The ink wrote super dry and very light. This image is probably showing it a bit darker than it actually is. I realized that the color is exactly the same as certain brands of Band-Aid adhesive strips.
You can see the difference when I loaded it into the calligraphy pen which puts down a lot more ink on the paper. This ink does not have a lot of shading.
The Canteo paper is more absorbent than the Clairefontaine, so this ink writes what appears to be a little darker on this ivory paper, but it was still writing thin. I feel like you have to exert so much more effort (pen against paper) with a thin ink versus one that's free-flowing and/or "wet."
So in my opinion, this ink will probably best suit a wide fountain pen nib, or dip/calligraphy pen.
Herbin inks run $7.20 per 30ml bottle at The Ink Flow
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