With a heavy lean into violet, Diamine Imperial Blue is far from a standard blue ink. Excluding special editions as well as shimmering and sheening inks, and drawing an arbitrary line between blue, turquoise, teal and mint, Diamine has about twenty shades of blue available, some of which can be Read More …
Whilst the Eco and Diamond 580 lines are both piston fillers, this demonstrator uses a vacuum-based filling system. Its body is longer and, in places, thicker than its cousins’, and while the section is clear, it feels rubberised and provides a more secure grip than both the Eco and those Read More …
Of the several pink options Diamine provides, Hope Pink might just be the most vibrant and hot. Especially in wetter and broader nibs, this ink is highly saturated and flows perfectly. A tiny bit of shading—depending on the nib and paper used—gives it a playful air that doesn’t jump out Read More …
Unlike the 4001 line, Pelikan’s Edelstein inks are premium products. This specific ink retails for about € 12.- for 50 ml of ink, a per-millilitre price of € 0.24. Its qualities in both colour and shading are comparable to Diamine’s more affordable Blaze Orange, but Mandarin is on the drier Read More …
Not only is Pineider an Italian company; it also managed to snatch designer Dante Del Vecchio from Visconti, their fellow Italian competitor, in 2016. Dante’s design is very much apparent in the Pineider Avatar UR, which looks quite similar—albeit longer and thinner—to Visconti’s Rembrandt, most notably the shiny, textured centre-band Read More …
