From the Archivist's shelf: true blacks and the deepest near-black inks we could find across our brands — Noodler's X-Feather and Halloween Chuckie Black, J. Herbin Perle Noire, Platinum Carbon Black, Anderillium's Common Loon Black and Colossal Squid Dark, Wearingeul's near-black Black Tulip, and Robert Oster's Black Violet. Each one sits at the darkest end of the shelf, whether pure black or just a shade shy of it.