KWZ Standard Ink - Ink Bottles (40 colors)

Author: François Dumoulin

Review Title: Old Gold van KWZ

• Review Add on: 25-09-2026
• Average Rating: (5)

Als beginnende vulpen- en inktverzamelaar is het een uitdaging de goeie inkt te vinden om kleuren als geel/abrikoos/goud/messing uit mijn pen te laten vloeien. Bij Appelboom kon ik goed en snel terecht voor het befaamde Old Gold van KWZ.

Author: Dirk Zils

Review Title: KWZ Azure #4

• Review Add on: 02-05-2025
• Average Rating: (5)

And another blue or so you think. But as it is mostly with KWZ - it is a little bit different. A blue with shadows, flowing smoothly. Only thing missing is a special scent. Although…there is something sharp and fresh.

Author: Dirk

Review Title: KWZ Honey

• Review Add on: 02-05-2025
• Average Rating: (5)

Using KWZ together with Pilot and Diamine most of the time, Honey is still one of the five best inks I have.
The color tone, the richness and especially the comforting smell make it stand out. It is great to use and its shadowing is just beautiful.

Author: Arnout

Review Title: KWZ Honey

• Review Add on: 03-02-2025
• Average Rating: (5)

I kocht KWZ Honey. Wat een fantastische kleur. Goudbruin, je denkt inderdaad meteen aan honing. De shading is geweldig, waardoor het een hele warme kleur wordt die soms bijna licht lijkt te geven. De inkt schrijft ook heel prettig. Ik ben er erg blij mee.

Author: Anoniem

Review Title: KWZ Honey. Hele fijne inkt

• Review Add on: 09-09-2024
• Average Rating: (5)

Ik heb KWZ Honey besteld voor mijn amberkleurige pilot custom 823. Wat een mooie kleur inkt. De inkt ruikt vanille achtig, wat ik wel lekker vind ruiken. KWZ Honey is een absolute aanrader!

Author: anthonyvdb97

• Review Add on: 06-03-2024
• Average Rating: (5)

After a decade I went back to writing with fountain pens again, in the past I've always used the stock Parker Quink cartridges in my Parker contact but as I've picked up a couple other pens I really needed a couple of bottles of ink. After some research I found that KWZ is a good value for money, I went for standard ink in Honey saturation. I love the inks flows on the paper and how the saturation of the honey ink looks. Filling a pen from the bottle is also easy enough for me. I have to use the ink in my Platinum pens still but in JinHao 100 and Penbbs 494 the ink worked great. Definitely a brand I'll buy again from. (Not to forget the stunning services provided by Appelboom).

Author: Dennis Wang

• Review Add on: 30-11-2023
• Average Rating: (4)

I recent ordered the kwz honey ink and received a courtesy email from the company that it was not in stock but they have put the order in and very thoughtfully sent me an email to informed me and asked whether I would like to have alternate color or not.

Author: Charles

Review Title: Het groene goud

• Review Add on: 22-07-2022
• Average Rating: (4)

Leuke speelse kleur inkt die je in het dagelijks gebruik ook kunt gebruiken. Het goud is vrij subtiel aanwezig. De groene kleur is geen standaard groen, maar een beetje grijs wat meer neigt naar de groene kleur. Al met al een leuke inkt.

Author: annemieke

Review Title: Perfect

• Review Add on: 04-07-2022
• Average Rating: (5)

Recent heb ik 2 KWZ standaard kleuren toegevoegd aan mijn assortiment. De KWZ inkten zijn super van structuur en kleurstelling. Daarbij is de flow uit elk van mijn pennen heel erg goed. Terwijl mijn Mont Blanc een drogere flow heeft, wordt ook deze vulpen beter door KWZ inkt. Mijn nieuwe Onoto Scholar Rosso heeft dezelfde kleur als de KWZ grapefruit en ook hierbij is de inkt perfect voor de nib.

Author: T.L. Wright-Brickhouse

Review Title: Honey

• Review Add on: 03-05-2022
• Average Rating: (5)

Absolutely pleased. The smell is perfect and so is the color. The ink is very well behaved. I didn't expect to like it this much. I purchased another color of KWZ ink many moons ago and the bottle came cracked (didn't discover until much later) and it was always sooooo messy filling my pens. I thought it was the ink and never purchased another bottle until now. I must say I am not disappointed and will be adding many more colors of this brand to my collection.

Author: Annemieke

Review Title: Perfect

• Review Add on: 28-02-2022
• Average Rating: (5)

I believe KWZ inks are one of the best. I like the design: a big bottle with a large opening which makes it easy to refill my pen.
KWZ is also a "wet" ink. It write perfect in all my pen's from Mont Blanc to Onoto to Montegrappa. I have now several colors and I want to collect all of them. At this moment my favourites are: Thiefs Red and Cappuccino.

Author: Leo

• Review Add on: 09-08-2021
• Average Rating: (5)

Very wet flow that can keep up with flex nibs. And smells good too!

Author: Aneel

• Review Add on: 07-05-2021
• Average Rating: (5)

Seeing Old Gold in a review years back I instantly took a liking to it. I feel it it to be more of a dark mustard; the expensive kind of mustard. It shades really well, and will look great with a springy to flex nib. It has become one of my favorite inks.

Author: Kochi

Review Title: Bright, fresh, menthol green.

• Review Add on: 17-03-2021
• Average Rating: (4)

Bright and refreshing ink, similar to Marine. I like the color very much.

Author: Giel

Review Title: beautiful purple Gummiberry

• Review Add on: 01-02-2021
• Average Rating: (5)

A beautiful purple ink with a sweet name: Gummiberry.
Flows nicely in my TWSBI Eco (F). A joy to look at too in the transparent pen.

Author: Friedrich

Review Title: Really nice, rich blue.

• Review Add on: 14-01-2021
• Average Rating: (5)

This is a nice ink. KWZ has a lot of blues and this is a good one--it's rich, a little turquoise, looks really good on the page.

Author: Katja Engelkamp

Review Title: KWZ Turquoise

• Review Add on: 09-01-2021
• Average Rating: (5)

See my other review for general compliments about KWZ inks.
I was looking for a real good turquoise for 2 years. Most of the turquoise inks happen to be too light and too shady (or too much outline) for my taste. I ‘needed’ a more saturated turquoise that wasn’t too blue or too green and this is the one! Very happy that I found it!

Author: Katja Engelkamp

Review Title: KWZ Green Gold #2

• Review Add on: 09-01-2021
• Average Rating: (5)

I am a huge fan of KWZ inks. Online the vibrant colors, the absolute great bottles (every nib fits in), however I managed to knock one over once, the viscosity / flow is absolutely fantastic and I’m one of those that love the typical smell of the inks.

This color is spot on. I looked for ‘the perfect green’ for my Scribo Feel Verde Prato for 1,5 year and this is it. The color is a great match and the shading is beautiful. I’m very happy with this ink.

Author: Jill Bonneau

Review Title: Love KWZ Ink!

• Review Add on: 05-01-2021
• Average Rating: (5)

I purchased several bottles of KWZ and have loved every one. Grapefruit is my absolute favorite with Grey Plum coming in a close second. The flow is good no matter which pen I ink up with it from one of my vintage Parkers to a Montegrappa. I will be adding more to my collection of inks soon.

Author: Clement. L

Review Title: KWZ has nothing to envy to renowned ink brands

• Review Add on: 03-08-2020
• Average Rating: (4)

I own now around 10 different bottles of KWZ's inks (such as Honey, Walk over the Vistula and grapefruit but never tried their IG series) and I have to admit that for a small scale production "Domowej roboty" their inks are certainly no slouch !

Very saturated, most of them have a nice shading and overall they're well behaved inks. The price is very fair given the 60 ml quantity. The opening on these bottles are large enough so that any pen of any size can be dipped in.

As for the vanilla smell, some inks are smellier than others, but you really need to put your nose over the page to smell it on the paper, and it tends to disappear few days after the ink has dried.
Don't shy away from these inks because of their humdrum labeling, they're really worth the money.

Author: Fabio Gasperoni

• Review Add on: 08-02-2017
• Average Rating: (5)

KWZ (Maroon #2) is a very well behaved ink and has beautiful colour to it (and a weird odour, though not pungent nor displeasing). It looks somehow like dried blood (but in a good way!). I started using it on a Kaweco Sport BB steel nib, which are said to be slightly dry, and it complements it perfectly being a wet ink in my opinion. Although being a red(dish) colour, it is dark enough to be used as a daily ink, as an alternative to brown/chestnut colours.
The shading is somewhat like Sailor Jentle ink (Oku-Yama), which is a more reddish color.