Today I'm reviewing Diamine Denim
This is a saturated dark blue ink, and is a very good match for the material that it’s named after. It’s a dark denim colour. I wouldn’t call it blue-black, although in some pens it will look more like a blue-black ink.
It’s a darker blue than Diamine Midnight, but not as dark as Cult Pens Deep Dark Blue or Diamine 1864 Blue-Black.
It was a well behaved performer for me in two of my pens. It felt wetter and flowed better when I was using the Lamy M nib and the Parker 45 Cursive Italic nib.
As far as show through goes, I’ve listed the papers where I saw any show through at all. When these papers are scanned show through seems to be accentuated on the reverse. However, on all but the Field Notes paper, show through was really minimal and I would find it acceptable to write on the reverse sides of all of these papers.
- Flow Rate: Good. Much wetter in the Lamy Al-star with M nib.
- Lubrication: Good with both Parker and Lamy M nibs I used.
- Nib Dry-out: Not noticed.
- Start-up: Immediate.
- Saturation: Saturated.
- Shading Potential: Shading seen.
- Sheen: None seen.
- Show-Through:
- Apica Paper
- Midori Paper
- Rhodia Graph Paper
- Tomoe River 52gsm paper
- Tomoe River 68gsm paper
- Field Notes
- Hobonichi Techo
- Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Not seen.
- Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not seen, even after over 1 week in the pen
- Staining (pen): Not seen after several days - easy clean-up
- Staining (hands): Not seen - Easy clean-up
- Clogging: Not seen. Seems unlikely.
- Water resistance: Not sold as waterproof. Shows some water resistance. I left it soaking in during the time it took me to have a shower.
- Availability: Available from Diamine Inks web-site and many other outlets.
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