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Flow: Easy, smoth, moderate flow. Ideal.

Lubrication: Moderate or slightly more.

Shading: A surprising amount on Clairefontaine considering how pale it is, but it does shade, absolutely, but only on good paper. No such luck, or rather, harder to get on Staples bagasse and/or cheaper.

Saturation: Not saturated, but readable.

Sheen: Again, a surprising amount, considering its saturation.

Feathering: See below…

Ghosting/Bleeding: Not really. You need to lay down a rather heavy line to get any ghosting, but when you do it, it MAY bleed.

Smearing: None, even in the areas of heavy flexion.

Dry times: About 15 seconds for a moderately wet Japanese XF line.

 

Observations: As far as lubrication goes, it's great and slick on good smooth paper, but I can feel a noticeable difference on cheaper stuff. DRY TIMES: It's not a miracle worker, and able to dry quickly in widely flexed lined on ink resistant paper, but it's very good in that regard. FEATHERING: Only on the cheapest copy paper under flexion (a terrible idea anyway). See Staples bagasse attachment. Honestly, my first impression of this ink was made before I wrote with it the first time; I looked at the pale, yellow orange liquid in the sample vial and thought, I'd never be able to use it because it would be too hard to see, well, I was mostly wrong. In my preferred type of nib fine or XF, this is unusably light. In anything broader or wetter, it's workable. In a flex pen, it's refined and delicate.

 

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wow-beautiful ink and wonderful writing! you have quite a deft touch!

 

thanks for sharing

 

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You make me want this ink to make my chicken scratch look prettier :P

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I'm drooling. What a lovely combination of ink and script.

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Thank you for the review. I am not at all keen on the ink, but your stunning handwriting just took my breath away! I LOVE 'olde worlde' handwriting so very much.

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Gorgeous writing and great review. Thank you so much for letting us see!


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I am particularly keen on Apricot ink for its color, shading and sheen :wub: I only wish I could find a way to make it a daily work horse instead of bringing it out for special purposes only.

 

Sailor Apricot, Pilot Iroshizuku Fuyu-gaki and Noodler's Habanero are the only ones so far in this color range that appeal to me.

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Thank you very much everybody! I have to be in the right frame of mind to write like that, and I was lucky to wake up in a "zen" enough mood to pull something like that off.

 

Oh, and if you're interested in the pen I used to write that, please, have a look at one of these:

 

Purpleheart and Cedar Desiderata flex fountain pen seconds are available at 33% off.

Thank you for the review. I am not at all keen on the ink, but your stunning handwriting just took my breath away! I LOVE 'olde worlde' handwriting so very much.

 

 

Gorgeous writing and great review. Thank you so much for letting us see!

 

 

Lovely ink and penmanship, too!

 

 

You have amazing penmanship.

 

 

Beautiful! :wub:

 

 

You make me want this ink to make my chicken scratch look prettier :P

 

 

Oh my God, you have such a beautiful writing! I studied some calligraphy, but a different type. Makes me want to look into Spencerian... ;)

 

 

wow-beautiful ink and wonderful writing! you have quite a deft touch!

 

thanks for sharing

 

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I'm drooling. What a lovely combination of ink and script.

www.DesiderataPens.com
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Thank you very much everybody! I have to be in the right frame of mind to write like that, and I was lucky to wake up in a "zen" enough mood to pull something like that off.

 

Oh, and if you're interested in the pen I used to write that, please, have a look at one of these:

 

Purpleheart and Cedar Desiderata flex fountain pen seconds are available at 33% off.

I'm intrigued by this pen.

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