Ink For Moleskine That's Not Blue Or Black

[amateriat]

 

[The worst paper for my drying purposes is Clairefontaine, a few times it was smudging weeks later...]

 

Eh? Never had this issue with Clairefontaine in most any format.

 

Alas, I can't give a solid recommendation either, as my limited experience with Moleskine has been all over the map, consistency-wise

 

 

- Barrett

[Muncle]

I'm a Moleskin user too, I like their weekly planner (week on left side, lined paper on the right side).

 

Looking through my planners, I've noticed that my Diamine inks seem to do really well on Moleskin. I've used Ancient Copper a lot, with no bleedthrough or feathering. Last year I've seen a lot of raw sienna, although I don't really like that colour. YMMV. Finally, Waterman's violet is also very good.

 

I tend to use fine-nibbed pens, with varying amounts of flow. Hope this helps!

[EvolvingK]

I'm particularly attracted to darker colours... something that you can use to write with that is easy on the eyes but also has a hint of colour. I'm interested by PR's ebony green and purple, has anyone tried those with any success? All other suggestions welcome!

 

I actually rather like Moleskines because of the narrowness of the rulings, so have used them quite a lot with my Lamy Safari EF and my Pilot Birdie EF. I have no bleed through and very little ghosting. I've used J Herbin, Noodler's, and De Atramentis, all sorts of colors, with no problems. However, when I tried to use my Konrad, just to see -- whoo boy. Too much ink coming out too fast, it was a big mess.

 

So I'd say you can use any color you like, just make sure your nib is either very fine or your ink is very dry.

[Pens Woods]

Montblanc Burgundy Red works well for me. It does not bleed and stands out against the ivory colored Moleskine paper.

[zokko]

As my usual P1JP diary from Letts is no longer made, I am thinking of using a pocket-size Moleskine. However, I would like to know if the paper in these is suitable for average fountain-pen ink. In my diaries, I use Parker or Waterman black and blue-black most of the time, in a 45-year-old Parker 45 with fine italic nib. This combination has been fine on Letts paper, so I am hopeful it would work on Moleskine paper as well. Any advice appreciated, thank-you.

[FountainPenCowgirl]

I had a mostly blank Moleskine when I got into fountain pens and got along with only a couple of bumps along the way. I'll offer up the names of inks I was using at the time. But with a bit more experience behind me (admittedly still far from 'expert'), I probably need to qualify with a description of the pens I was using. I suspect that had as much, if not more, to do with the outcome.

 

My first pens were Safaris, virtually all EF nibs; Pilot Preras, M nibs (that definitely were on the finer side), and a couple of Pilot Cavaliers, F nibs. I suspect that when I use my remaining stock of Moleskines (and, yes, I will, perhaps when I'm living on retirement income and funds are tight. But I won't waste them.), I'll be selecting my instruments carefully.

 

Inks I was using:

 

PR Burgundy Mist

Iroshizuku Asa-Gao

Diamine Chocolate Brown

PR Naples Blue

PR Tanzanite

Diamine Green-Black

DA Auburgine (which was great for the Moleskine in a Cavalier)

 

(Oops. A couple of blues in there. But lovely, dry-ish blues, at least for me.)

 

The only one I think might have created issues was the Tanzanite, and it might have been because I might have gotten my Pelikan toward the end of that journal.

 

I did it, but I soon learned why I can appreciate my new journal obsessions more -at least while using FPs. Moleskines offered no problem, at least for me, using other tools. I now have other first-choice preferences, but they served me well through my dissertation research (several chronicle the thought processes that simply had to be done via pen to paper).

Edited November 9, 2013 by FountainPenCowgirl

[sandy101]

Pelikan Turquoise 4001, Waterman Absolute Brown, J Herbin Violet Pensee, Waterman South Seas Blue (Turquoise) and J Herbin's Lierre sauvage (Ivy Green) work well. The Ivy Green takes a bit longer to dry (medium nib) but looks nice on the page - you'll need to keep the page slanted if writing left handed.

[akustyk]

In my experience, Moleskine paper varies from notebook to notebook. It's crazy! My small notebook has very good paper, tolerant of wet nibs. My "cassette tape" edition notebook has awful paper that requires extra-fine nibs and iron-gall inks to not feather and bleed through. Even then, only one side is usable.

 

In general, iron-gall inks are your best bet. Yes, you don't like blue-black, so Rohrer and Klingner Scabiosa (purple of sorts) is going to be awesome. I also found Noodler's Black to be very well behaved on Moleskine paper in my TWSBI Mini EF.

 

Finally, Namiki Blue (the "regular" Namiki, not Iroshizuku) also works very well on bad paper, including Moleskine.

 

Your choices are limited, unfortunately.

[dcwaites]

I just bought a nice little Modena notebook on special, and have gone through the same problem.

 

While I have decided in this instance to devote a fine-nibbed pen with Noodler's black, I have found that the Waterman inks (Florida/Serenity Blue, Green, Audacious Red) all behave well on ink-poor paper.

 

As well, all the pigmented inks seem to perform well, but you are very limited to the available colours, and I would not think they are amenable to mixing.

 

The diluted Noodler's dye inks also perform very well on poor papers, giving you a very wide range of colours.

[Sham69]

visconti red, waterman purple great colours

[bernardo]

Pelikan brown works great for me.