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October 29th, 2017, 10:28 AM
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Ink Review: Diamine Earl Grey
Today I’m reviewing a sample of the increasingly popular new ink from Diamine called Earl Grey
Inside the box lid is a label that says “This ink colour was chosen by the members of r/fountainpens, a wonderful Reddit community of fountain pen enthusuiasts.”*
It’s a grey ink that has some purple tones, but it doesn’t particularly lean towards the purple or blue edge of the colour spectrum. I found it a very nice, quite wet and well flowing ink.
It wrote with a smooth glide across the papers I used.
It has some very nice shading, and looks more saturated with broader nibs than with finer nibs.
It showed through on some of the papers I used - see below.
The comparison inks were swabbed with a cotton bud and their ink names were written with a glass dip pen.
- Start-up: Immediate.
- Flow Rate: Very good - wet
- Lubrication: Very good - smooth
- Nib Dry-out: Not noticed.
- Saturation: Reasonably saturated for a grey ink. Too saturated and they look black.
- Shading Potential: Very good; shading can easily be seen.
- Sheen: None noticed.
- Spread / Feathering: Not seen
- Show-Through:
- CiAK by inTempo
- Clairefontaine Matris
- Moleskine Clone
- Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not seen, even after over a week in the pen
- Staining (pen): Not seen - easy clean-up
- Staining (hands): Not seen - easy clean-up
- Clogging: Not seen. Seems unlikely.
- Water resistance: Has no water resistance.
- Availability: Available from Diamine Inks web-site and other outlets.
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Last edited by Chrissy; September 3rd, 2019 at 01:55 AM.
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