Waterman Florida Blue

[icevic]

This is a perfect blue ink. It is always well behaved, a treat in just about any pen, safer than safe in vintage, never stains pens, and a beautiful mid blue that is very bright and readable on the page. Plus it has some shading depending on the pen/paper combination. Perfect for any situation.

 

I keep on buying blue inks thinking there will be one better but there isn't.

 

Don't be fooled because it is such a common ink with a common name. It is uncommonly good.

[amberleadavis]

I went on a blue buying binge - thankfully with samples. I can tell you that not all blues are the same. For example, the Blues Brothers are nothing like BSB ... oh wait, I can see the similarities now.

[bbodson]

I use half a dozen bottles a year. Well behaved, even on Moleskine paper and good general correspondence ink. I also use it as a test ink on restored pens, since it flows pretty well, and doesn't do any odd staining.

[JazzDoc]

I've gone through my share of Waterman's Florida Blue. Great.

 

Then I met Diamine's China Blue....love at first sight. And no ink behaves like Diamine, AFAIC.

[mhosea]

It's not my favorite blue ink, but I quite enjoy it in the right pens, which tends to be the wetter ones with consistent flow. It looks a lot more saturated when I use it than what the review above showed. For me it occupies a niche between Noodler's Blue and Montblanc Royal Blue. I use it mostly with vintage pens, not so much with modern pens.

[georges zaslavsky]

a highly versatile ink which works well in vintage and modern pens.

[torstar]

just cleaned out a long unused Balance II Amber, sure held a lot of red ink in it...

 

this pen has been the best for WM Florida/Serenity Blue recently, makes it come super-alive.