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Poor Man's Sapphire
Straits Pen 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 Straits Pen
Straits Pen is a Singapore-based fountain pen retailer, distributor, and nib service known throughout the Asian and US pen show circuit. It distributes brands such as Tomoe River paper, Noodler's Ink, and Fine Writing International, and produces its own humorously named house line, Honest Inks, which debuted at the San Francisco Pen Show in 2018.
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.