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Charlie’s Private Label - Viva La Violet
River City Pen Company 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 River City Pen Company
River City Pen Company is a small workshop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, run by maker Richard, producing handmade fountain pens one at a time. Its models, such as the Westwood, Shadyside, and Morningside, are named after Pittsburgh neighborhoods and take interchangeable Jowo and Bock nibs.
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.