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First Impressions:

I bought the ink and when it arrived I was very excited. I love Edgar Allan Poe and was psyched to have a bottle of ink with his face on it. But to be honest I frowned at the color. When I think of Poe green does not come to mind. I think the ink should have been a blood red or a dark purple or even a black. But they chose green and I got the bottle regardless...

 

Performance:

The ink is very lubricated, almost too much for my tastes. It is almost slippery, which is an odd feeling. The color is good it's a mid green that looks nice on paper. It doesn't shade as much as I'd like but the quick dry time and lack of any feathering more than makes up for it. It shows through on cheap paper but there only small spots of bleed through. All in all it is a nice well behaved ink.

 

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I like this ink but keep coming back to fact it doesn't fit Poe. What may happen is that this ink may get put into another bottle and I may put this ink into the Poe bottle...

 

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DeAtramentis makes nice inks but the colors for some of the historic figures are odd choices. Some of the scented ones are odd too, look at Plum.

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Thank you for this review. It's a nice colour, though I prefer the colour in the Goulet swab to the colour in your scan.

 

I'm always intrigued when people say that it's an odd name to go with the colour. Who would people suggest would be more suited to a green ink? Racking my brains, the only characters I could think of were the Wicked Witch of the West and Kermit the Frog...

It's quite nice out here in the sunshine...

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Thank you for this review. It's a nice colour, though I prefer the colour in the Goulet swab to the colour in your scan.

 

I'm always intrigued when people say that it's an odd name to go with the colour. Who would people suggest would be more suited to a green ink? Racking my brains, the only characters I could think of were the Wicked Witch of the West and Kermit the Frog...

 

It's odd the color changes slightly on the paper I used, it turns almost to a teal/green. I am not sure why though...

 

I am a big fan of Poe and just didn't think green suited him, it was too cheery... I think you could do green for Charles Darwin because of all the things he did with the natural world....

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Hmm.... I'm with you on the color choice. Of course Poe would be some shade of black --- blackest black or murky black or well, anything black. Maybe a violent blood red but NOT green.

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Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Have you seen our take on an Edgar Allan Poe themed ink :)

 

Here :)

 

Oh I like that it is very nice :puddle:

 

Yeah, I had a feeling you would like it.

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