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Berlin Brown
Backpack is one of the 713 brands in Inktend's built-in ink catalog.
Paper & pairing
Browns tend to photograph and scan a little darker than they look in person — worth testing before using one for anything that will be digitized. This ink will behave predictably on most fountain-pen-friendly paper. Cheap, highly absorbent paper (standard copier paper) will dull any ink's saturation and can cause feathering or bleed-through with wetter nibs.
About Backpack
Backpack is a small American ink maker whose fountain pen inks are made by hand in Colorado. Designed for portability, its eight city-named colours — from Moscow Red to Reykjavik Black — come in leak-resistant 20 ml plastic transport vials and use a simplified four-component formula.
Storing and using the bottle
Bottled fountain pen ink has an effectively long shelf life when kept capped and out of direct sunlight — most inks remain usable for years. The main risk isn't the ink spoiling, it's a pen sitting inked and unused for weeks: that's what causes clogs, not the ink's age.
Frequently asked questions
Similar shades By colour distance
Color shown is a close digital approximation of a typical swatch, not a calibrated color match.