Diamine - Green/Black - Ink Review

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Hi all and welcome to Day 11 of Inkmas!

I pulled another Diamine ink out of the goodie bag today- a shade I had never heard of actually.

I wasn’t quite sure what to make of a color described as green/black, but hey I generally enjoy Diamine inks so I inked it op in my Lamy AL Star (medium nib) and started writing.

Let’s get to taking a closer look:

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Writing

This ink, like most Diamine inks, goes down on the wetter side. 

I experienced no flow problems, and it was generally well behaved. 

I also experienced no feathering- it was pretty much staying where you put it, even on my field notes notebook. I did experience a bit of feathering on office copy paper, but that’s typical of fountain pen ink on this type of paper. 

Dry Time

Since it is pretty firmly on the wet side of the spectrum, I was expecting a 45+ second dry time, and it came in just under that.

It was pretty dry at 30 seconds but fully dry at 40 seconds

Water Test

This ink isn’t waterproof but it also isn’t advertised to be.

Even after a good 3 minutes being soaked into the paper, the ink came up fairly easily when some water was dripped on it. You do get some cool, shaded green colors with the water drops, so if you use fountain pen inks for art you can for sure get some neat effects out of this color. 

Color

The picture of the writing sample simply doesn’t do this color justice. I was surprised at how green it was, given how dark it was in the sample vial.


A nice spectrum of color was present, from basically pure black to a deep forest green. 

I like inks that are sort of...incognito. They can be used in business scenarios without drawing too much attention, but you know the truth, and know that they’re secretly something so much more fun than a boring ol’ plain black ink.

This is for sure one of those inks- it’s deep and dark so it looks black at first glance, but if you pay attention there’s this really rich green that shines through. 

Verdict

I really love this ink- I was surprised since I don’t think I’ve really tried a green ink before. 

It wrote well and was well behaved, a level of consistency I’ve grown to expect from Diamine’s inks.

Okay, that’s all for this review. Thanks for reading, happy writing, and see you tomorrow for Day 12!