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Dominant Industry

Lungo

Browns#4E3628

Painterly Korean inks inspired by landscapes and famous artworks, split between a numbered Standard series and a shimmering Pearl series.

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Specs

Color familyBrowns
Approx. hex#4E3628
SheenNot typically noted

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.

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About Dominant Industry

Dominant Industry is a small ink maker based in Paju, South Korea. The brand describes its mission as bottling the efforts of painters, creating lifelike landscape- and artwork-inspired colors using reflective and transparent pigments that play with natural light. Its catalog is organized into a numbered Standard series and a shimmering Pearl series, alongside scented, Mirror and calligraphy inks.

South Korea Founded 2019
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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

What color family is Lungo?
Lungo falls into Inktend's browns family based on its typical swatch color.
Does Lungo have sheen?
Lungo is not typically noted for sheen. If you want that effect, browse similarly colored inks tagged with sheen in the ink library.
How should I store a bottle of Lungo?
Years, easily, as long as it stays capped and out of direct sunlight. The thing that actually shortens an ink's usable life is sitting unused inside a pen, not sitting on a shelf.
What paper works best with Lungo?
It behaves predictably on most fountain-pen-friendly paper. Stick to something reasonably absorbent-resistant, since cheap copier paper dulls saturation and can feather.

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Color shown is a close digital approximation of a typical swatch, not a calibrated color match.