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1920 - Kobalt
Barock is one of the 713 brands in Inktend's built-in ink catalog.
Paper & pairing
Blues and navies are the most broadly "safe" fountain pen colors — legible, professional, and unlikely to raise eyebrows in an office. 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 Barock
Barock is a historic German ink brand from Dresden whose roots go back to 1826, when August Leonhardi developed the first alizarin ink in his ink factory, patented in 1855. After World War II the East German company VEB Bürochemie Dresden produced Barock inks for the whole GDR. Following the brand's 2011 bankruptcy it was revived by Octopus Fluids, which continues to make Barock fountain pen inks in Saxony.
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.