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Everyday Tea in Colour: Japanese Tea Set - 02 Karigane
Before Breakfast is one of the 713 brands in Inktend's built-in ink catalog.
Paper & pairing
Warm tones (oranges, yellows, ambers) show strong contrast between light and dark areas of each stroke, which is part of why they're popular with broader nibs. 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 Before Breakfast
Before Breakfast is a design-led stationery studio and shop in Clerkenwell, London, founded in 2014 by a graphic designer who started with a single Risograph machine. It creates considered notebooks, pads, desk objects and writing tools from sustainable materials, and runs a studio shop alongside its product line.
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.