What is it about interesting blue fountain pen inks that makes me keep buying similar shades over and over again? By all reasonable measures, I don’t need Robert Oster Cities of America Miami, but what about my stationery life is reasonable? Give me this ink!
Right from the initial inking of Miami, I was wowed. This teal ink was created to mimic the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Miami Beach, and while I can’t say I have in-person experience with the color of the water there, pictures tell me that it is stunning - like this ink.
Miami falls squarely into the teal category for me. It’s equal parts blue and green, and the right shades of each to make this ink stand out on the page. I’ve tested it on many papers, and it hasn’t failed to show off its shading, and has behaved perfectly.
One of the reasons I might be enamored with this ink is how perfectly it matches the pen I chose to ink it up in. I ordered the Pilot Custom 74 in Teal for a future review at the same time I ordered this ink, with no intention that it would be used this way. Teal ink looks great in any pen, but once I did an initial swab of Miami and saw how close the Pilot acrylic was, well, that was an easy choice.
And the right one, too. I’ll fully review the Custom 74 in the coming weeks, but the 14k Medium nib in this model shows off this ink exquisitely. Have I fawned enough yet?
All sub-categories of Robert Oster Miami land in the medium range: Medium flow, medium shading, medium dry time. It is not waterproof.
Price-wise, all Robert Oster inks provide some of the best bang-for-buck on the market. $18 for a 50 ml bottle is more than reasonable.
There are currently seven inks in the Cities of America series. I was trying to be good and only ordered two, one of which has already been given away, and the other of which is not going to be leaving my arsenal for quite some time. The only questions left to answer is how many more inks will be in this series, and how many more will I purchase?
(I purchased this product at a discount from Vanness Pens for review purposes.)
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