Misfill, Looking Back, Moving Forward Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

— 2020 in Inky Review Part 1: Personal Trends and Collection (Looped Square)

— 2021 Yearly Goals (New Year’s Resolutions) and Theme (Writing at Large)

— Year Roundup: My Favorite Products Of 2020 (The Pencilcase Blog)

— Fountain Pen Quest Year-end Roundup (Fountain Pen Quest)

— My Ink Collection: 1266 Bottles and 61 Litres of Ink (2021) (Macchiato Man)

— My fountain pen drawings in 2020 (Inkcredible Colours)

— Looking ahead to 2021 (UK fountain pens)

— 2020 Cheers and Tears (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— The Twins v2.0 // Pilot Kakuno Fountain Pen (Weirdoforest Pens)

— Greatest of All Time 2020 (SBREBrown)

— 2021 Planner Set Up. (The Finer Point)

— Biella Index Cards (pencil talk)

— Mitsubishi WACOM Hi Uni Digital Stylus Review (Good e-Reader)

— Ralph Steadman’s guided tour through six decades of irrepressible art (New Statesman)

— Best Pens & Inks of 2020 (Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

— 2020: Some of my fountain pen highlights. (Fountain pen blog)

— The Year in Walking, Ridgeline 2020 (Ridgeline)

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Ugmonk Analog Cards Giveaway Winners

Note cards are a great way to track your day and organize your thoughts, and the new Ugmonk Analog System Note Cards are set up to help with exactly that. I had three sets of cards to give away, and the winners are:

Congrats! I’ve sent an email to each of you to collect your shipping address.

Scribo Verde Mediterraneo Ink: A Review

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

Scribo ink arrives in a gorgeous, cloth-covered box. The box is substantial because the ink bottle is made of thick glass. Filled with ink it weighs a whopping 441 grams/15.5 ounces.

Verde Mediterraneo is a deep teal green with shading and a good amount of red/burgundy sheen. On my Col-o-dex card, you can see the various shades of the ink in the swab, the shading properties in the writing and swirl, and the sheen in the splats.

I tested the ink on white Rhodia dot-grid paper. It writes smoothly and demonstrates shading in all nib sizes. Although the ink dried super fast, it didn't seem dry when I wrote with it. In fact, it flowed quite nicely and is well saturated. It isn't waterproof.

Chromatography reveals a bit of pale yellow and ochre, turquoise and blue.

On MD Cotton Paper with my Handwritmic ruling pen you can see shading and sheen, especially where the ink pooled.

For a lengthier writing test, I used an MD Notebook Journal and my TWSBI Prussian Blue fitted with a Mark Bacas Predator nib. The ink was wet and flowed well. You can even see a bit of the red sheen.

I also drew a design modeled after a pattern by @mgemart_ on Instagram. This was done in my Galen Leather Tomoe River Journal. Again, the ink worked well on the paper, although you can see a difference between the left and right sides. The left side is more saturated (presumably because I had just inked the pen). The right side was completed the following day and is much lighter.

Scribo Verde Mediterraneo is an excellent dark teal ink. It reminds me most of Sailor Yama Dori, but the Scribo ink is much greener.

You can purchase this ink from Goldspot Pens ($39.00 for 90ml), although it is currently sold out. I would suggest trying a sample first just to make sure you like the color, since $39.00 is quite an investment. I suspect that price is partly due to the fancy glass bottle, which, by the way, is stackable with other Scribo bottles. I'm not sure how helpful that feature is (at least for saving space) since the bottles themselves are so massive.

(Goldspot provided this product at no charge to The Pen Addict for review purposes.)