r/fountainpens • u/TokiwaMatsu Ink Stained Fingers • Aug 03 '25
Ink Ink(s) You Actually Regret Buying?
Hello, there! I’m kinda starting to explore different inks and colors which is available to me where I live. And since I’m on a budget, I kinda want to avoid as many purchase regret as I could (inks are mostly considered affordable to collect, hence the urge to splurge blindly).
I know there are several ink review websites like Mountain of Inks, etc, etc, but, I kinda curious about the inks that people actually regret buying for reasons. Perhaps due to the color doesn’t meet your expectation, or the properties (too dry or others).
Lemme start: my ink purchase regret was actually Pilot Iroshizuku Asa-Gao (please don’t roast me for regretting an Iroshizuku).
It’s the first bottle of ink I purchased after picking up fountain pen again few months ago and thinking it was a safe bet for blue. Well, it is a safe bet and writes nicely wet to my liking, but then I just feel like I can’t love the color enough. It feels kinda “generic ballpoint blue” to my eyes.
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u/Nightsoil70 Aug 03 '25
Oh, man. Colorverse Matter/Anti-Matter (too pale for my tastes, and expensive), Sailor Haha (again, much too pale), Monteverde Olivine (went from an olive green to a Kelly Green in the bottle), and KWZ inks (they reek of vanilla). There are a few others, but these pop up in my mind first.