Daily Doodle - Maidenhair Fern

Ink used: Tono&Lims Leprechaun

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Small flower doodles from my journal today.

Ink is Sailor Mizutama Kohiru.
Pen is F-C Model 03M

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Since I got a Stainless Steel Vector and moved my FI nib to it, I put a medium italic nib in the Vector I was using. As this is a fairly wide nib it seemed like a good chance to try out Van Dieman's Natura Dualis Nightfall.

Me likey! It's one of the few chromashading inks I've had actually work like it should, but that may be the nib more than the ink. It's a tad on the pale side like most of these, but still very readable.

I'll have to swatch this one soon!

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Daily Doodle - Western Red Cedar branch

Ink used: Birmingham Dart Frog
Pen used: River City CrazyFibre

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okay so what are good fountain pens to get? would ideally want something that gives some line variation, but anything nice and affordable will be considered.
also would like ink recommendations both for fountain and dip pens.

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Daily Doodle - St.Patricks' day style

Ink is Amarillo Stationery Urng Kicks. Pen F-C model 31 Olivae.

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I know it's snowing again today but this still seems a wee bit premature. I like the box art, though.

https://www.stiloestile.com/en/inks/sets/colorverse-2026-colorvent-calendar

Including a swatch sheet is interesting.

Preorders that won't ship for ~200 days feel like a risk these days, but it would definitely help them to get a better idea of how many to manufacture.

I need to make a better effort to use more of my 2024 set before pondering this one more seriously.

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Wordsworth and Black Royal Blue and Racing Green Inks

Time for a tale of two inks, this time feature Wordsworth and Black Racing Green and Royal Blue.

So, let’s start with something important: neither of these inks are accurately represented in their packaging. The Royal Blue box hints that there is more purple tones in it than the swab shows. But the shocking one is the Racing Green, it not only looks nothing like the representation on the box, but it isn’t even close to a “racing green” (aka Rally Green). The box actually does look like “Racing Green”.

And, I didn’t include them, but the labels on the bottle are just as bad.

Honestly, Racing Green is so bad, I just flushed it out of my pen, and loaded it with Aurora Borealis instead.

The Royal Blue, despite the misrepresentation, is a pretty nice blue. It’s a bit more saturated than the TWSBI Blue, and less purple than the Diamine Majestic Blue. I think it makes for a good alternative to the Oxford Blue which is my standard.

Testing Fountain Pen Inks

Question: has anyone done extensive testing on any fountain pen inks?

I don’t mean the standard Mountain of Ink style, sample card, writing sample, etc. visual comparisons. (I’d like to call this subjective measurement, but chromatographic measurements aren’t subjective if done in a controlled manner.)

I am thinking more objective testing: viscosity, density, flow rate @ a given line width, etc.

I was thinking about this type of testing tonight, and it seems to me that there are a lot of factors that would need to be controlled: temperature, air pressure / barometric pressure, nib consistency, friction (aka heat), etc. Given what I was thinking this could be an interesting experiment, if someone wanted to undertake controlling all the variables, and implementing the controls necessary for consistent results.