Ink Review #1466: Kobe 03 Kyu-kyoryuchi Sepia

Kobe 03 Kyu-kyoryuchi Sepia aka The Old City Sepia is from Kobe’s standard collection and is available in 50 ml bottles. You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

The color:

Kyu-kyoryuchi Sepia is a deep chocolate brown.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink has some black sheen but only a little shading.

Writing samples:

Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.

Dry time: 30 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: Low

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: low shading, low black sheen, and no shimmer.

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was feathering and bleeding in all nib sizes.

Comparison Swabs:

Sepia is more saturated than Tono & Lims Coffee: Emerald Mountain. Click here to see the Kobe inks together, and click here to see the brown inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Lamy Al-star Bronze with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink had a wet flow.

Overall, I liked this ink. It flows well and is a nice dark color, perfect for the fall and winter seasons, as well as being office appropriate.

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