Diamine Inkvent Calendar Day 4

(Susan M. Pigott is a fountain pen collector, pen and paperholic, photographer, and professor. You can find more from Susan on her blog Scribalishess.)

It’s December 4th and today’s ink is one of my favorites. It’s called Polar Glow and the name suits it perfectly.

Polar Glow is a dark blue ink with purple/magenta sheen.

The blue is highly saturated and the sheen simply glows in sunshine.

On Rhodia paper, the ink’s sheen is hardly noticeable. In fact, the color looks much more like a straightforward blue. You can see a bit of the sheen in the swab and in the medium and broad writing examples.

Polar Glow is a superb color, especially if you love inks with sheen. The color almost exactly matches the blue of the Inkvent Calendar (at least on Rhodia paper), but when you write with flex or broad nibs or do swabs, the purple/magenta sheen glows like the reflection of the Milky Way on icy northern waters.

(Cult Pens provided the Diamine Inkvent Calendar to Pen Addict free of charge for review purposes.)

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar Day 3

(Susan M. Pigott is a fountain pen collector, pen and paperholic, photographer, and professor. You can find more from Susan on her blog Scribalishess.)

On the third day of Advent Diamine gave to me a tiny bottle of shimmering ink.

Snow Storm is a light gray shimmer ink with silver particles. It definitely reminds me of gray December skies, though snow storms in Abilene, Texas, are rare.

Snow Storm offers some lovely shading (in a flex nib) in addition to the shimmer, which is more noticeable in the ink droplets on the Col-o-ring Card.

The ink looks rather washed out on Rhodia paper, so this is a color you’ll want to use in flex or broad nibs for writing. For art, it will work well as a wash.

I wish Diamine had made Snow Storm a much darker gray so that the shimmer would be more obvious. A darker gray would’ve made this ink more useful for writing as well.

(Cult Pens provided the Diamine Inkvent Calendar to Pen Addict free of charge for review purposes.)

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Diamine Inkvent Calendar Day 2

(Susan M. Pigott is a fountain pen collector, pen and paperholic, photographer, and professor. You can find more from Susan on her blog Scribalishess.)

Happy day two of Advent! We’re opening the second door of the Diamine Inkvent Calendar to reveal the next bespoke color: Candy Cane.

Candy Cane is a standard ink color (no shimmer or sheen) that very much mimics the pink/red color of the stripes in candy canes.

The close-up photos below demonstrate that this color has little shading and no sheen.

On Rhodia paper, the ink definitely leans towards pink and is fairly light in finer nibs.

Candy Cane is a cheery red reminiscent of Santa’s rosy cheeks, but it’s fairly light. You might want to use it as an accent color or, for writing, in broader nibs. It will also work well as a wash.

(Cult Pens provided the Diamine Inkvent Calendar to Pen Addict free of charge for review purposes.)

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