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Drawing Ink - Cobalt Blue
Holbein is one of the 713 brands in Inktend's built-in ink catalog.
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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 Holbein
Holbein is a Japanese fine art materials manufacturer headquartered in Osaka, with over a century of history and incorporated as Holbein Works in 1946. Named after the Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger, it produces professional oil, acrylic and watercolour paints, drawing inks, coloured pencils and pastels.
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.