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A bit of history Iron gall ink is a purple-black or brown-black ink made from iron salts and tannic acids from vegetable sources1 As a fountain pen enthusiast, it was pretty interesting to learn about the history and modern incarnations of this particular type of inks. Both Leonardo’s notebooks and Isaac Newton’s notebooks seemed to have contain writing primarily with iron gall inks, such as the following image from a Leonardo’s notebooks2....

I have always been a fan of fountain pens from my school days and throughout the university years. But recently I haven’t been writing all that much and consequently my fountain pen usage went down. However, discovering some really nice fountain pen inks recently rekindled my interest in fountain pen writing along with taking written notes. Since I liked these inks so much and given that I learnt about them only recently, I thought of writing a short blog post on how they look on paper and other fountain pen related things I tend to use or have used in the past....