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 …
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 …
Perfectly in line with the subdued, pastel nature of the pen I use it in, Robert Oster’s Cherry Blossom presents itself in a subdued, unassuming, muted manner. Larger areas of swabs and writing with wetter nibs can certainly produce a more saturated result, whereas my fine Eco nib preserves the Read More …
The pens, inks and notebooks of Faber-Castell’s “Graf von Faber-Castell” line are premium products. This Olive Green ink is the most expensive in my collection, setting me back € 29.- for 75 ml of ink, a per-millilitre price of € 0.39. In exchange, I received a gorgeous desaturated ink with Read More …
Pelikan’s 4001 range can be considered a bread-and-butter range of saturated inks in classic colours. The turquoise variant is very saturated with slight shading depending on the nib and paper used. In very wet pens and on sheen-prone paper, it can develop a slight violet sheen. In the x450’s medium Read More …
