BRIL ROYAL BLUE

I have stocked up lot of inks, especially inks like Chelpark, Camlin, Bril and Sulekha. All these are region specific like Chelpark is easily available in North India and Bril’s availability is limited to Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, and Sulekha only available in Kolkatta that too few colors against 11 colors listed on webpage and lastly Camlin is available pan India.

The review is about the Bril Royal Blue Ink, which happens to be my first ink review.

And before I go further I would really like to thank Visvamitra and Lgsoltek, whose ink reviews I personally like a lot and is the inspiration for the ink review.

Also I would like to add that i got the inks as a gift from one of my friend and fountain pen enthusiast, Rakshit Pai.

Bril inks are one of the most used and admired inks in India. Bril has been in existence since 1964 and are based out of Bangalore.

Bril Royal Blue

Bril Royal Blue is one of the most used inks in India after Camlin Blue and it is priced at Rs. 15 (US $ 0.25).

INK SPLASH

Bril Royal Blue – Ink Splash on Bilt Matrix -70 gsm

Bril Royal Blue – Ink Splash on Century Copy Paper – 70 gsm

Drop on Paper Napkin

Bril Royal Blue – Ink Drop on Paper Napkin

Color Match

Bril Royal Blue – Color Match

Writing Samples

Bril Royal Blue – Writing Sample on Bilt Matrix (70 gsm) using 3 pens of varying nibs widths

Bril Royal Blue – Writing Sample on Camlin School Notebook using 3 pens of varying nibs widths

Bril Royal Blue – Writing Sample on Century Copy Paper (70 gsm) using 3 pens of varying nibs widths

Ink Swabs

Bril Royal Blue – Ink Swab Sample on Bilt Matrix (70 gsm) – 3 swabs, 2 swabs and 1 swab from Left to Right

Bril Royal Blue – Ink Swab Sample on Camlin School Notebook – 3 swabs, 2 swabs and 1 swab from Left to Right

Bril Royal Blue – Ink Swab Sample on Century Copy Paper (70 gsm) – 3 swabs, 2 swabs and 1 swab from Left to Right

Waterproof Test

Bril Royal Blue – Waterproof test

Blow up Writing Sample

Bril Royal Blue – Blown up Writing Sample

Conclusion:

I like the shade of blue this Bril offers. Also it is dirt cheap and yes it is somewhat not washed out by water. It definitely gives many expensive inks run for its money.

To add to all this i have been using this ink in lot of my expensive pens and never faced any problem even in demonstrators leaving no stain marks.

MUST BUY even if the price is not considered.