on salePilot Iroshizuku Fuyu-syogun - 50ml Bottled Ink

This is a lovely color and has become my go to for every day use.

Great ink, a little more bluish gray than silver gray. Darker than silver. Great color and ink though.

I bought this ink expecting a graphite gray, which I like very much. But, on a whim, I didn't ink one of the XF, F-nib pens I usually use, but rather a medium cursive italic. And what I got wasn't graphite, but a stunning blue-grey. I've checked reviews on other sites, and what I've found is that when swabbed or dripped onto paper, this ink has much more blue than it does when laid down with a medium or finer nib. When laid down with a cursive italic on my usual Clairefontaine paper, this ink has a chilly, austere, serious look to it. I use it at work all the time. I have only about 30 bottles of ink in my office, but of those 30, I use this one and Akkerman Delft Blue about 90 percent of the time. I use it only in a couple of pens with italic nibs because it doesn't show up as well with a fine nib, so those pens have become my de facto favorite pens. No matter. I love this ink.

A very pretty ink- it flows well, and dries quickly. It's probably my second favorite ink. No more smears in my bullet journal!

This ink flows very smoothly and evenly in my Lamy LX (extra fine nib). The color is as I expected thanks to the swatches shown on the product page.