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Blue
Kanwrite 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 Kanwrite
Kanwrite is the pen brand of Kanpur Writers, a family firm from Kanpur founded by Laxmi Shankar Awasthi, whose website dates production to 1976. It is India's largest fountain pen nib manufacturer, producing tens of thousands of units a day and a wide range of steel, flex and 14k gold nibs supplied to other pen makers, alongside its own pens such as the Heritage and Desire.
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.