Sheaffer coastal blue

[catbert]

Here’s another ink I purchased because I like the bottle. Sheaffer's new line of inks moved production from Slovenia to China and revived an older tilt-well bottle design.

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New 30ml, old 50ml.

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Sketch combining the Inktober prompts 'terrain' and 'flag', inspired by Yazeh and Kaputnik.

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(The Sheaffer 5-30 used in the writing and drawing samples is my first attempt at re-saccing a pen. So far, so good.)

I don’t have any of Sheaffer’s previous range of Slovenian-made inks to compare. Based on online reviews, Sheaffer coastal blue leans greener than Sheaffer Skrip turquoise. To my eye, it falls somewhere between Lamy turquoise and Lamy turmaline. I would call it green.

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Swatches on Col-o-ring and Atoma paper.

Waterproofness: don’t count on it.
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I prefer black or blue-black ink for longer-form writing (easier on the eye) and use brighter, contrasting shades mainly for annotation, marking up, etc. Sheaffer coastal blue is dark enough to be legible for general writing but bright enough to stand out if used for annotation, which makes it quite versatile.