Robert Oster Black Violet Fountain Pen Ink — 50 mL
Robert Oster Black Violet Fountain Pen Ink — 50 mL
Robert Oster Black Violet lives close to the border between purple and black. It is dark enough for long-form writing, but the violet undertone keeps the page from feeling flat or ordinary.
Review testing shows medium-low shading and only a trace of reddish sheen, usually in heavier pooling rather than across ordinary lines. It is therefore better understood as a dark violet writing ink than as a showy sheen ink. On fountain-pen-friendly paper, broader and wetter nibs reveal more of the purple beneath the near-black surface.
Ink character
- Color: deep black-violet
- Shading: low to medium
- Sheen: very slight reddish sheen in pooled areas
- Shimmer: none
- Flow: moderate
- Water resistance: low
- Best suited to: everyday writing, notes, correspondence
Black Violet is useful when black feels too severe and bright purple feels too conspicuous: a quiet, serious ink with just enough color to reward a closer look.