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.
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!
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.
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.
KWZ Azure #3 is a very good blue--a rich, medium shade, without the strong purple or teal undertones of some bluee inks. Not blue-black, not a light blue, but somewhere in between. If you are looking for a classic blue, this one is a good choice. Note that the ink does have a relatively long dry time.
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.
Warsaw Dreaming is a wonderful black, it doesn't give you the hard black that you get from some inks but this is more of soft black. I've tested it in a number of pens and across many different papers and the results have always been good.
Thief's Red is currently my favourite red; like it's a nice medium red that's good for all occasions. It's more red than the Cherry and if you're used to the Herbin reds you will find this a stronger colour.
Grapefruit is a fantastic bright orange, it's a deep orange, in my opinion its a stronger colour than the Diamine orange but not as deep as the Cult Pens Deep Dark Orange. When it dries it leans towards orange/red with the emphasis on orange.
All the KWZ inks are excellent quality and value and at the prices charged you can afford to experiment; I would say if you want to try out colours you won't go wrong with KWZ.
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