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Orchid
Gate City Pen & Ink Co. is one of the 713 brands in Inktend's built-in ink catalog.
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Paper & pairing
Purples sit at the boundary of professional and playful, one of the more personality-forward choices that still reads clearly on the page. 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 Gate City Pen & Ink Co.
Gate City Pen and Ink Company is a small fountain pen and ink business from Nashua, New Hampshire, registered in 2010 by noted nib specialist Richard Binder. It produced vintage-inspired handmade pens such as the New Postal Pen and Bellmont, along with a small line of fountain pen inks, and has since changed ownership.
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.