Ink Review: Diamine Calligraphy Passion Germany Exclusive

[Chrissy]

Today I'm reviewing Diamine Calligraphy Passion ink.

Diamine Calligraphy Passion is a Diamine Exclusive ink made specially for sale in Germany. I’ve seen it for sale on “Fountainfeder”, “Papier & Stift” and Seitz-Kreuznach websites as well as on Amazon.

This is a non-saturated, yellow leaning, bright neon green ink. It shades between green and yellow. Although it’s called Calligraphy Passion, it is a dye-based, fountain pen ink. Not a calligraphy only ink and not a shimmer ink.
It’s an unusual light, bright, green colour. Maybe it is popular with artists for it’s colour-wash properties.
It’s very similar to J.Herbin Apple scented ink and Diamine Jade Green ink.
It easily washes off of my hands with cold water and bar soap and it easily flushes out of my converters and pens just using water.
It didn’t suffer from any hard starts or non-starts when I put the uncapped pen down to do swab tests, dry times and water resistance.
It dried very quickly on all of the papers I used it on and once dry it didn’t smudge or smear.
I found it flowed much wetter, and looked more green in the Lamy pen with B nib that I used

There was hardly any showthrough and no bleedthrough on any of the papers I wrote on, and I could still have written on the reverse of all them with no problem.

• Flow Rate: Good. Felt wetter with broader nibs.
• Lubrication: Good.
• Nib Dry-out: Not noticed.
• Start-up: Immediate.
• Saturation: Unsaturated ink.
• Shading Potential: Shades between almost yellow and grassy green
• Show-Through: None
• Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Not seen.
• Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not seen.
• Staining (pen): Not seen after several days in the pen - easy clean-up with water.
• Staining (hands): Easy clean-up with bar soap.
• Clogging: Not seen. Seems unlikely.
• Water resistance: Not sold as waterproof but has some water resistance.
• Availability: Exclusive to Germany and available from: Fountainfeder, Papier & Stift,
  Seitz-Kreuznach and Amazon.

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