Want to find a really dark black

[Penturner]

What's cheaper? Noodler's inks are among the cheapest inks I can think of.

 

Anyway, I've heard that Noodler's Heart of Darkness is the darkest black.

 

geez maybe he just sells noodler's at a higher cost than normal because he sells heaps of them, but thanks for the tip about the heart of darkness.. i have heard that from others as well.

 

Or maybe you have not done the comparison of price by dollars/ml or oz of ink...

If you you will find that Noodlers is a very economical ink...

I would also recommend Noodlers Borealis Black.... think black cat in a coal bin on a moonless night black... be careful opening the bottle as it will suck the light out of a room

[cpsantillan]

Herbin's Perle Noire or Aurora's black.

 

Mike

+1

[jorgerp1]

Herbin's Perle Noire or Aurora's black.

 

Mike

+1

++2 for Aurora.

[Namo]

What's cheaper? Noodler's inks are among the cheapest inks I can think of.

 

Anyway, I've heard that Noodler's Heart of Darkness is the darkest black.

 

geez maybe he just sells noodler's at a higher cost than normal because he sells heaps of them, but thanks for the tip about the heart of darkness.. i have heard that from others as well.

 

Or maybe you have not done the comparison of price by dollars/ml or oz of ink...

If you you will find that Noodlers is a very economical ink...

I would also recommend Noodlers Borealis Black.... think black cat in a coal bin on a moonless night black... be careful opening the bottle as it will suck the light out of a room

 

+1for Borealis

Edited January 8, 2010 by Namo

[Pippin60]

Noodler's inks are expensive per bottle, but the bottles are large, so it's still cheap per volume wherever I've seen it (with the exception of the 1oz bottles).

 

Another vote for Noodlers HOD, my other choices would be, and not necessarily in any order are; Aurora Black, and J.Herbin Perl Noire.

[anica]

noodlers heart of darkness is wonderfully black and smooth - ( and kind of sticky too from an artist's point of view- this is if you refill brush pens with it...). after this one, you wont waste money looking for a blacker black. i think that's the point everyone is making here.

[Zaarin]

+1for Borealis

 

+2 for Borealis Black - really really solid black (try letting it spread on a tissue - you'll see nothing but black there).

 

It's generally well-behaved - but I have known it flood the cap in a (more or less) fire-hose pen; admittedly that pen is less than ideal.

 

Edit: Borealis is also good for intense black if for whatever reason you don't want to use Noodler's Eternal/Bulletproof lines. Borealis is marketed as "water-resistant" - I haven't tested this myself. There may be some reviews that have tested it.

Edited January 8, 2010 by Zaarin

[santander02]

Another vote for Aurora

[jgrasty]

+1 for Noodler's Heart of Darkness. I finally got a chance today to compare it to Noodler's Black, and Heart of Darkness wins.

[hookem11]

Aurora black

[aget19]

i am currently using Noodler's HoD in my Pelikan M600 and it makes a beautiful, juicy, smooth black (dense black) line.

 

There is a broad nib in the pen.

 

i love it

[jorgerp1]

Noodler's offers some of the darkest, densest blacks and has a loyal following here, but I am more ambivalent towards Noodler's as I find nib creep an annoying side effect of many Noodler's inks.

 

For the budget minded like me Pelikan makes a decent brilliant black (I have access to the ridiculously cheap larger 250 ml/8.4 oz and 1000 ml/33.8 oz bottles), but Pelikan ink flow is on the dry side and may not suit all pens. Aurora offers another dense, dark black ink and flow is said to be excellent.

 

+1

[jgrasty]

I've three black inks. Blackest (is that a word?) is Noodler's Heart of Darkness, followed closely by Noodler's Black, followed by Levenger Raven Black. I also have Sailor Kiwaguro Nano Carbon Black in a cartridge, but the only pen I have that fits this cartridge is a Sailor Recruit, which has an extremely fine nib that makes it impossible to judge whether it is darker than the ones above.

[Aelfrida]

Pelikan Fount India is very dark and hasn't harmed any of my pens. It seems almost matte.

[djpyle]

I have regular old Quink, as well as Noodler's HoD, Black, and Old Manhattan. The HoD is definitely the darkest of them all, and in my opinion it's the overall best. On very cheap paper, however, the regular Noodler's Black does have less feathering. And it's still plenty dark. Very close to HoD.