There is certainly a part of me that wishes Diamine would just make one or two lovely blue inks and call it a day. The part of me that wishes that is the part that is connected to my dwindling bank account. (Actually, dwindled, not dwindling.) The rest of me is very glad of so […]
What’s this? Another dark blue Diamine ink? Why yes it is. And it’s a good one too. Not so much in the way of shading as some others but a good solid blue-black.
Sometimes in late Spring you wake up and step outside and it’s damp underfoot and the air is cool but you can feel on your face that it’s going to be a beautiful warm day. On those days the sky is the same colour as this ink. Writing with this ink is like writing with […]
I think it’s hard to instil much character in a dark blue-black ink but Diamine have managed it with Twilight. It’s a beautiful colour with lots of shading. Lamy pur 47, 1.1mm italic nib, Monsieur notebook, terrible handwriting.
Continuing in my quest to own and review every blue ink that Diamine do (27, not including the two in the sadly out-of-my-price-range Music Set and not including inks like Teal which are somewhere between blue and green), here is Kensington Blue. Kensington Blue is lovely lovely lovely. It’s a kind of matt blue, I […]