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Survivor Blue
Eversharp 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 Eversharp
Eversharp was founded in the United States in 1913 by Charles R. Keeran around his mechanical pencil, becoming Wahl-Eversharp after the Wahl company bought it in 1916 and one of America's leading pen makers through the 1940s. Parker absorbed the firm in 1957; the trademarks were revived in 2012 by Wahl-Eversharp Company, which reissued the Henry Dreyfuss-designed Skyline. Current production spans inexpensive Skyline pens at around $65–70 and the oversized ebonite Decoband with a 14K gold nib at around $1,195.
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.