This is a really unusual blue. Almost a green.
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Waterman Translucent F on Rhodia notepad
This is a really unusual blue. Almost a green.
Diamine-Steel-Blue-ink-review.jpg
Waterman Translucent F on Rhodia notepad
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A lovely review! It's a colour I hadn't really considered - up to now. Thanks a lot.
The Good Captain
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I'd call it teal. Thanks for the review.
I agree, it is more of a teal than a blue. But I find myself using it a lot lately!
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Murfie kindly sent me a generous sample bottle of this and it has become one of my favourite inks.
A nice substitute for the lamented Caribbean Sea
sinistral hypergraphica - a slurry of ink
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I think this is a very appropriate name for this ink. It's teal blue.
Diamine already has a teal and it's not like that. I think this is more baby blue, at least for the writing. For inkguy, I dunno what colour that could be.
Whoa. I was expecting more of a gunmetal grey-blue with a name like that.
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fountainpenkid (February 17th, 2014)
Thanks for sharing. Bogon showed me this ink after taunting me with the now elusive c d'a caribbean sea. I may have to buy this one before it too becomes extinct.
Steel?? Huh? It looks really cool! Anyone know how it compares to Soft Mint?
I like this blue, and prefer it to the other blue I bought from Diamine - Mediterranean Blue.
I've actually just realised this is the colour I wrote in my correspondence diary noting incoming and outgoing post. Maybe I should reply to one of the InCoWriMo letters in Steel Blue!
caribbean_skye (February 17th, 2014)
Lovely colour, very similar to J Herbin Blue Pervenche which i have only just discovered and absolutely adore but i may have to buy some of this and compare the two side by side.
Pervenche is much bluer without any green at all
You are very likely right, I can never see the green in turquoise, myself. Either way Pervenche is much bluer and less green than Steel Blue, which to me is more like a green that is very blue.
I think it's the green that i like so much in the diamine.
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