Best Tattoo Ink 2025

Tattoo inks are the most essential component in tattooing, but with such a wide variety of brands and colours to choose from, just which ink is the best?

We’re going to run through the best tattoo inks that are available to order from Killer Ink Tattoo in 2025 to help find the perfect hues for you!

• WORLD FAMOUS LIMITLESS
• KURO SUMI IMPERIAL
• DYNAMIC COLOR COMPANY
• INTENZE INK
• ETERNAL INK
• PANTHERA INK
• CARBON BLACK TATTOO INK
• RADIANT COLORS
• VIKING INK BY DYNAMIC
• KWADRON INX

What Are the Best Tattoo Inks in 2025?

When it comes down to finding the ideal tattoo ink, it all comes down to your specific tattooing style, how you work and your overall preferences.

While most tattoo ink manufacturers offer both black and colour inks, some brands specialise in one or the other, so it’s helpful to know which are which if you specialise in styles such as blackwork or colour realism.

If you need more information regarding our huge line-up of tattoo inks, make sure to contact us today and our team will help find the best inks for you!

World Famous Limitless

World Famous Limitless is the newest tattoo ink range from the renowned US manufacturer that complies with the latest Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation & Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulations in the EU.

As World Famous Ink is a global manufacturer, the new EU REACH regulations provided an opportunity for the brand to create a new tattoo ink line that not only meets, but exceeds regulatory standards, resulting in an updated, world market-compliant product.

Introducing Limitless, the new EU REACH-compliant tattoo ink range from World Famous Ink that has been created by artists for artists. The World Famous Limitless line-up contains durable, versatile tattoo inks with research-driven formulations that fly into the skin with ease.

As with the original World Famous Ink colours, all Limitless tattoo inks are vegan-friendly, cruelty-free and made in the USA.

Kuro Sumi Imperial

Kuro Sumi began 2022 with the introduction of its new EU REACH-compliant tattoo ink range, Imperial, and went from strength to strength ever since!

Originally formulated in Japan, Kuro Sumi Imperial is fully-compliant with the latest EU REACH regulations, ensuring only the best raw materials and manufacturing processes were used in the creation of this tattoo ink range.

The result of Kuro Sumi's efforts is a flawless, vibrant tattoo ink that is perfect for a variety of styles and goes into the skin quick and easy.

Dynamic Color Company

Dynamic Color Company has been specialising in high-quality tattoo ink since 1990 and is best known for the quality of its flagship product Dynamic Black Ink.

Following the introduction of the EU REACH regulations, Dynamic sprung into action to create a line-up of black tattoo inks that would be available to European artists without comprising on quality, and the brand has done just that. Dynamic Union Black is a new twist on an old classic: an ultra rich and smooth black tattoo ink with the same consistency and high quality as Dynamic's original black ink. Dynamic Color Co. also partnered with world-renowned tattoo artist Joaquin Ganga to bring you its first artist collaborative ink, Dynamic Ganga Black - perfect for all types of black and grey work that when used as wash will produce smooth gradients that are custom-tailored to Ganga's hyper-realism style.

In 2024 Dynamic released Dynamic BLKOUT, their blackest black ink ever – and it’s also EU REACH-compliant!

Intenze Ink

Developed by the legendary artist Mario Barth and manufactured in the USA, Intenze Ink is the producer of some of the best tattoo inks around.

All tattoo inks from Intenze are manufactured in an ISO 9001:2015-certified facility and are sterilised through a gamma radiation process. Each and very colour in the Intenze Ink range is also vegan-friendly and cruelty-free.

But don’t just take our word for it, as many of our good friends and sponsored artists are using Intenze Ink for their incredible work, such as David Giersch, Igor Mitrenga, and Dongkyu Lee – aka Q Tattoo.

Following the introduction of the EU REACH regulations, the team behind Intenze Ink took it up themselves to create a fully-compliant product of a high standard. The result was Intenze Ink Gen-Z, a wide and colourful range of high-quality, REACH-compliant tattoo ink that are ideal for a variety of styles and techniques for European artists and beyond.

Eternal Ink

Developed by tattoo artist Terry Welker from Michigan, USA with over 30 years’ experience in the industry, Eternal Ink has now become one of the best and most popular tattoo ink producers in the world.

Many of the best tattoo artists around the globe are using Eternal Ink colours to this day, including our own sponsored artists Khan Tattoo, Caterina Molin, and Matt Daniels (Stickypop).

On our Killer Ink online store, you can also find Eternal Ink's EU REACH-compliant range of tattoo ink! The entire Apex collection can be used throughout Europe, and contains a very good spread of both vibrant and muted colours.

Panthera Ink

Manufactured in Italy, Panthera Ink is one of the most popular tattoo inks among artists who specialise in black and grey work, thanks to its excellent tattoo inks at exceptional prices!

Panthera Ink’s XXX Tribal Black is a super dark black ink that is suitable for all work that requires opaque filling, such as tribal tattoos. Once healed, it will stay as black as the day you put it in the skin!

We stock Liner black ink from Panthera that has the ideal consistency for outlining, as well as the Sumy Shader, which is available in Light or Dark and is great for shading.

Over the years, Panthera Ink has collaborated with master tattoo artists Ralf Nonnweiler and Matteo Pasqualin on some must-have inks and sets.

The Smooth tattoo ink set from world-renowned tattooist Ralf Nonnweiler contains two tattoo inks: one for ‘Blending’ and the other for the ‘Finish’, which are both the final steps from the light Sumy Shader.

REACH regulations allowed Panthera to update some of its most popular inks, including the Ralf Nonnweiler Smooth Set and various individual black lining, light and dark shading, and tribal inks. Panthera Ink also released a new generation black tattoo ink named Black Gold: an adaptable black that is perfect for lining, shading and filling and contains no isopropyl alcohol or carcinogens, making it preservative-free.

Carbon Black Tattoo Ink

Carbon Black Tattoo Ink creates high-quality black and grey inks that are fully compliant with the latest EU REACH regulations. Each and every tattoo ink from Carbon Black has been created via high-tech processing procedures with top quality ingredients for maximum lightfastness and pigment stability in the skin.

Last year, Carbon Black updated and streamlined its REACH-compliant range, with the line-up now comprising seven essential black and grey shades. The updated Carbon Black tattoo ink range consists of five shading inks (Sumi 01-05), plus a lining black (Liner 06) and a bold one for filling (Filler 07).

Radiant Colors

Hailing from California, USA, Radiant Colors has dedicated itself to making tattoo inks in bright and long-lasting colours that are easy to apply. All tattoo inks from Radiant Colors are sterilised and contain pure, uncut, homogenised pigment.

Radiant Colors has worked with top artists to produce their bold tattoo inks, including creating signature sets with Angelo Nicolella, Carlox Angarita, Laky, and Luis Bonilla.

You can also check out Radiant Evolved, the latest tattoo ink line from the manufacturer that was designed to be fully-compliant with EU REACH regulations. Designed for European artists in mind, the Radiant Evolved range features meticulously crafted, vibrant tattoo inks, plus a five-bottle black tattoo ink set created in collaboration with dark surrealism artist Victor Portugal.

Viking Ink By Dynamic

Viking by Dynamic creates premium-quality tattoo ink, with a diverse range of vibrant colours that are fully compliant with the latest EU REACH regulations.

This versatile collection of tattoo inks and mixers enables artists to craft custom colours for various tattooing purposes, whether it's for outlining, shading, or intricate fine detail work.

Ensuring utmost safety for artists, Viking by Dynamic tattoo ink comes with several safety features, including clear PET bottles, a Dynamic-branded heat seal, and a textured hologram security label with an anti-counterfeit coating.

Rest assured, all REACH-compliant tattoo inks from Viking by Dynamic are vegan-friendly, cruelty-free, and thoughtfully packaged in sustainable materials. Elevate your tattoo artistry with these top-notch, environmentally-conscious tattoo inks.

KWADRON INX

From the manufacturers of the epic KWADRON needles comes a new tattoo ink made with advanced technology!

KWADRON utilises a Sonic Diffusion Pigments™ technology which helps to create a deep, intense black ink that’s perfect for blackwork and blackout tattoos - according to the brand, this is the market’s blackest black ink!

Perfect for high contrast and fully saturate filling, lining and shading, KWADRON INX is made in Poland and available in an EU REACH-compliant formulation!