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Standard - Blue Black
Wing Sung 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 Wing Sung
Wing Sung (永生) is a Shanghai pen maker whose predecessor was founded in the late 1940s and which was absorbed into state-owned pen factories before being re-established as Shanghai Wing Sung Co., Ltd. It was one of China's largest pen producers and is known today for very low-cost pens, several of which openly reinterpret Western designs, such as the 3008 piston demonstrator, the 601 aerometric and the 699 vacuum filler. Quality is generally regarded as high relative to the price, which ranges from a few dollars to around $40.
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.