Photo of fountain pen ink swatches and chromatograms. The inks are: Robert Oster Choc Pudding, Vinta Jewel Green & Carol Red, and Diamine Herbert, Helen, & Becky.

Last #SwatchWednesday of the year with the last Cult Ink Subscription box (RIP). Sadly, half of this month were dupes.

I've also completed the Cult Iridescink set after getting an email asking for a swatch of Becky. Not sure why I hadn't picked these up […]

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Overhead photo of 6 ink swatches as well as chromatograms & paper towel faux-chromatography for 5 of them. The inks are: KWZ Old Gold, De Atramentis Solar Yellow, Robert Oster Bronze & Silver Dawn, Diamine Silver Fox, and Endless Molten Bronze.

For #SwatchWednesday today we have the penultimate Cult Ink Subscription box. Sadly, it will be coming to an end after the December box. I've really enjoyed these boxes, even when I end up with dupes—something that happened far less often than you'd think […]

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Fun. Please show it off on #swatchwednesday when you have a chance.

Sailor Shikiori Kamo-shika, another variable color ink. It seems to drift between dusky purple to brown depending on paper.

Here it is on Iroful and Col-o-ring.

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New inks to try from The Wet Pen.

Emerald City Blue looks matte in the swatch with a green sheen. The sheen shows up in writing just at the edges of lines. A nice rich blue that leans blurple.

Everettt Massacre #1 is a red looking like its name would suggest […]

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Swatch & chromatogram for Wearingeul - The Ugly Duckling

Swatch & chromatogram for Diamine × r/fountainpens - Lady Grey

Small #SwatchWednesday today. My (maybe) last ink purchases for the year—Cult ink sub boxes not included—are Wearingeul - The Ugly Duckling & Diamine × r/fountainpens - Lady Grey. I think I'm liking Lady Grey a little more as it's a tad more legible while […]

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Ink Dupes: Platinum Lavender Black and Private Reserve Arabian Rose I recently picked up a sample of Platinum Lavender Black, since I enjoyed the sample of Khaki Black I got a long time ago. When I swatched it, I thought perhaps it was a mislabeled sample of Cassis Black because it was kind of a bright magenta-red when wet. But

Ink Dupes: Platinum Lavender Black and Private Reserve Arabian Rose

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Photo of 2 ink bottles on a wooden surface, along with their swatches, paper towel pseudo-chromatography, and chromatograms. The makeup of each ink is very similar, just with differing base colours.

A wee #SwatchWednesday this week.

Now that my Inkvent has arrived (no spoilers!), I've decided to dig out my #Chromatography strips to get a more accurate idea of how they're made up compared to my usual paper towel pseudo-chromatography. You can see how […]

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Dip pen ink swatches on a wooder board: Robert Oster × Cult Pens Bantham Blue (plus chromatogram), Winsor & Newton Black Indian Ink (x2), Cobalt, Crimson, Sunshine Yellow, & Viridian.

Slightly different #SwatchWednesday with some dip pen inks. Got a bottle of Winsor & Newton Sunshine Yellow in a Cult pens box a few months ago, so I decided to do separate swatches for my dip inks, including a bunch of vintage bottles my mither gave me from […]

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The Wet Pen Gas Works Park and Krone Think Classic Sahara This week, I'm featuring The Wet Pen's Gas Works Park ink, and a pen I recently bought secondhand, primarily for its custom ground nib: the Krone Think Classic Sahara, with a "Big Bottom Girl" nib by Joshua Lax. It's a cursive italic on the regular side, and a fine nib

After hours post for Ink Swatch Wednesday:

The Wet Pen Gas Works Park and Krone Think Classic Sahara

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Ink swatches for: Iroshizuku Momiji, Troublemaker Autumn Rain Grey, J. Herbin Terre de Feu, ColorVerse Methuselah Tree & Methuselah Grove, Octopus Fluids × Fountainfeder Midsommar & Schietwetter 😂, plus the paper towel pseudo-chromatography

Ink swatches for Diamine Forever Ink Tiger Lily, Hyper Green, Butterscotch, Honey Pot, Cherry Red, Red Ochre, Blue Indigo, Amazonia, & Raven, plus the paper towel pseudo-chromatography

Some backlogged #SwatchWednesday today. First off the Sept Cult sub box with some nice Autumny colours, then I picked up samples for the Diamine Forever inks I didn't have yet, plus 2 Fountainfeder exclusives. All scans are up on my swatch site.

No October […]

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Ink Swatch Wednesday: Revisiting Diamine Inkvents (and a bonus) Last year I made a calendar grid for Diamine Inkvent swatches so that I could have them all visible on one page, in addition to having individual ink swatch "cards" for my library. I hadn't re-swatched the older Inkvents on this calendar grid...until today (well, yesterday and today, #pedantic

Posting just under the wire...

Ink Swatch Wednesday: Revisiting Diamine Inkvents (and a bonus)

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Swatch photo under natural light. No ink is visible, just an ink bottle stamping & a small round sticker on the bottom left corner that reads "404".

Photo of the same swatch under 365nm UVA light with a visible light filter. The swatch card fluoresces a mid blue, and the ink fluoresces in a bright, light sky blue. On the left there is the text "Banmi" over the ink bottle stamp willed with the fluorescing ink, then "Secrets in the Light" underneath. On the right is a large swatch of the ink with text in the middle that reads "404 Ink Not Found"

My original design for an "Ink Not Found" pun was to do a pencil rubbing to show the "404 - Ink Not Found" on the right, but I liked the UV ink idea more.

1/3 #SwatchWednesday When I realised I'd got into the 400-range of inks, I was compelled to make a "404 - Page Not Found" pun. My first thought was to use a blunt tool to impress "404 - Ink Not Found" onto a swatch and then do a pencil rubbing, but after some […]

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Underwater scene with line drawing studies of various flora and fauna, coloured in with fountain pen ink.

Underwater scene with line drawing studies of various flora and fauna, coloured in with fountain pen ink.

My contribution this week is the first two pages in my Dominant Industry Log of Atlantis, which now have all 16 colours from the Cult Pens "Fruity and Iridescink" collection of wee tiny bottles of their special edition Diamine inks.

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Scan of orange ink swatches on original Tomoe River cream, colour-corrected as close as possible

Scan of orange ink swatches on Rhodia dotgrid, colour-corrected as close as possible

Bonus #SwatchWednesday time! Diamine Forever Coral Blaze didn't quite hit the mark for me, as I was hoping for a more vibrant orange-red similar to Blaze Orange. So I thought I would try mixing my own! I started off mixing Magenta & Yellow at different ratios […]

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The 2 fountain pen-safe inks from the July box (Octopus Fluids Djinn & Manuscript Black Ice), plus Nahvalur Jade, Diamine Aqua Surf, & Diamine Handel, plus the paper towel pseudo-chromatography. Handel is taking RO Bantham Blue's spot in my swatches since it's not safe for fountain pens.

The July Cult box is the full set of Diamine "Wonder's of the World": Colosseum, Taj Mahal, Petra, Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, Christ the Redeemer, & the Great Wall of China, plus the paper towel pseudo-chromatography.

August Cult box: Diamine × Cult "Summer" Summer Sunset, Tom Hessin Highland Green, Wearingeul the Count of Monte Cristo, & Pennonia Atlanti-kék, plus the paper towel pseudo-chromatography. Not pictured are Diamine Grey Skies No More & Pennonia Jegmenta, as I already had those inks.

Left swatches are bottles I bought, right swatches are samples Paradoxmo sent me. Endless Alchemy Molten Bronze came with my Endelss Phantom Kickstarter, Diamine Registrar's Ink is my special #400, Diamine Forever Skyline, Hot Magenta, & Solar Yellow for mixing. Samples from Paradoxmo: Pilot (Thailand) Washable Red, Bungubox Eternal Sunset, Dominant Industry Earl Grey Tea, Krishna Jungle Volcano, & J. Herbin Bleu des Profondeurs, plus the paper towel pseudo-chromatography.

#SwatchWednesday today! It's been a while since I've posted these so I had a bit of a backlog. We have the Jun/Jul/Aug Cult sub boxes, some bottles I bought, & some samples I generously got from @paradoxmo 🧡 June was mostly calligraphy inks, so I plan on […]

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Ink Swatch Wednesday: Birmingham Pen Co Cold Snap II I wasn't trying to continually buy ink from Birmingham Pen Company, but their Cold Snap ink really caught my eye, because the swatch looked like a strange blue-brown chromoshading ink which reminded me of one of my favorite recent inks, Sailor Shikiori Yuki-Usagi. Ultimately, it didn't end up being as

Ink Swatch Wednesday: Birmingham Pen Co Cold Snap II

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An ink swatch book open at a page with a partially coloured in undersea scene on the right, and on the left four ink swatch cards, clockwise from top left Loving Lemon, Bored Banana, Gruntled Guava and Wistful Watermelon.

An ink swatch book open at a page with a partially coloured in undersea scene on the right, and on the left four ink swatch cards, clockwise from top left Bashful Blueberry, Disdainful Damson, Robert, and Livid Lime.

I had way too much fun over the weekend with the Diamine Cult Pens Fruity and Iridescink 12ml set and my Dominant Industries Log of Atlantis. Flash photography rather than natural light.

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Ink Swatch Wednesday: Birmingham Pen Co Weathered Papyrus I recently bought a couple inks from Birmingham Pen Company because of their latest release called Cold Snap. As an addition to that purchase, Weathered Papyrus of course caught my eye since it's a brown ink (😆). Initial bottles of Cold Snap ended up having an issue – the resulting ink was

Ink Swatch Wednesday: Birmingham Pen Co Weathered Papyrus

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Wearingeul ink swatch cards, sitting on an open ink archiving logbook with a line drawing of an undersea scene. One swatch is honey brown fountain pen ink, the other pink. On the swatch card there are looped lines that have been smeared after set intervals of time to show drying time. The drawing is partly coloured in. The sea area is blue, one piece of coral is brown, and another pink.

Two more colours used in the Dominant Industry Log of Atlantis. Van Dieman Ink "Leatherwood Honey", and Diamine "Sultry Strawberry" from the Cult Pens Fruity and Iridescink set of 16 12ml bottles.

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Wearingeul ink swatch card with swatch patch of blue fountain pen ink, sitting on an open ink archiving logbook with a line drawing of an undersea scene. The drawing is partly coloured in. The sea area is blue, and a sea urchin is brown. On the swatch card there are looped lines that have been smeared after set intervals of time to show drying time.

Did another Diamine Sapphire Blue swatch, and took a photo with it on top of the first page of Dominant Industry's A Log of Atlantis. The sea colour is DSB applied with cotton bud, paintbrush, and glass pen, with varying numbers of layers and water.
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Wearingeul 'Jaquere' fountain pen ink swatch card, with swatch of blue ink and two drying time samples, one for 5 seconds and one for 10. Swatched by laying down one layer, letting it dry, and then laying down another layer across part of the first.

Finally got myself some swatch cards today, Wearingeul 'Jaquere'. First up, the ink I use for testing a new pen, Diamine Sapphire Blue. I love this ink, both colour and the way it writes. Photo in artificial light, alas.

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Ink Swatch Wednesday: Birmingham Pen Co Megalodon I wanted to order a full bottle of Birmingham Pen Co's Lampshade ink, which I originally had a sample for and liked a lot. In the same order, I also ended up picking up Megalodon, an odd grayish brown color (yeah, yet another brown!), that I hadn't sampled before, and

Ink Swatch Wednesday: Birmingham Pen Co Megalodon

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Ink Swatch Wednesday: June's Currently Inked Pens I recently recorded my currently inked pens for the month on Kokuyo Business Paper, so I thought it'd be a good "show and tell" subject this week. It's not a scan this time (going low effort today on the pictures), so apologies if it's a bit difficult to distinguish some

Ink Swatch Wednesday: June's Currently Inked Pens

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Ink Swatch Wednesday: Sailor Shikiori Yuki-usagi A couple weeks ago I did a "drive-by" ink swatching for a few inks because I felt too tired to go through the whole write up and comparison treatment that I usually do. Since then, I put Sailor Shikiori Yuki-usagi in my TWSBI Swipe with a B architect so that

A bit more in-depth look at Sailor Yuki-usagi

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Ink Swatch Wednesday: Drive-By Swatching In the last few days I received two different ink orders that I later realized were for a blue and a brown ink in each. 😅 The first order was for the Inkdependence x Diamine collaboration of the "Don't Trust a Bivalve"/"Trust a Bivalve" inks, related to an in-joke from

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Cult Pens April Ink Sub Box swatches + paper towel faux-chromatography. Troublemaker Sea Glass, Pennonia × Cult Jégmenta, Private Reserve Sherwood Green, Diamine × Cult Lime Ice Lolly, Laban Hera Dark Green, & Robert Oster Green Lady

Cult Pens May Ink Sub Box swatches + paper towel faux-chromatography. Dominant Industry × Cult Dawn, ColorVerse Anti-Matter, Diamine Forever Passion Flower, Diamine Majestic Purple, Octopus Fluids Violet Parrot, Pennonia × Cult Árvácska

Ink swatches of Sailor Dipton Ripe Fig, Diamine Forever Ink Smoky Mauve, & Esterbrook × TheCoffeeMonsterzCo Forgotten Ice Coffee, along with their paper towel faux-chromatography & their ink bottles.

Long overdue #SwatchWednesday today! We've got swatches from the @cultpens Ink Subscription boxes from April (Green) & May (Purple), along with bottles of Diamine Forever Ink Smoky Mauve, Esterbrook × TheCoffeeMonsterzCo Forgotten Iced Coffee, & Sailor Dipton […]

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Ink Swatch Wednesday: Colorverse Arrokoth, featuring Pelikan M600 Art Glauco Cambon Because I am me, I couldn't stay away from highlighting another brown ink. 😆 Today it's Colorverse Arrokoth, a kind of chocolate-milky brown to my eyes. I got a cute little bottle of it from my fountain pen Secret Santa last December, thanks! Apparently this ink was part of a limited

Ink Swatch Wednesday: Colorverse Arrokoth, featuring Pelikan M600 Art Glauco Cambon

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Ink Swatch Wednesday: KWZ Gummiberry and TWSBI ECO Espresso Bronze Amazingly I didn't fill the TWSBI ECO Espresso Bronze as soon as I received it. I had plenty of pens already inked and didn't want to add another until I removed a pen from the batch. I forgot which one bowed out, but I finally filled the ECO recently with

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For Ink Swatch Wednesday: Troublemaker Tablea

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