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Royal Blue
Stilform 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 Stilform
Stilform is a German design studio founded in 2013 and based in Hamburg, run by Christoph Bohrer and Martin Wagner. It became known through Kickstarter campaigns for minimalist magnetic writing instruments, including the KOSMOS Ink fountain pen with a self-aligning magnetic cap, crowdfunded in 2019. The brand produces pens and pencils in aluminum, titanium, brass, and magnesium with a strict minimalist design language.
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.