Quick Comparison of 6 Noodler's + Diamine Majestic Blue (+Watertest)

February 14, 2010

(Disclaimer: It's only a "Comparison of 5 Noodler's". I forgot that one color was in two pens )

A quick comparison of all the inks that are currently in my pens.

Diamine Majestic Blue: A very lovely dark blue/black with red reflections when dry. Easily my favorite dark blue.

Noodler's Midway Blue: More a "blue" turquoise than a "turquoise" blue.

Nooderl's Legal Lapis: A very dark green/black combination. I like the old fashioned look you get with it.

Noodler's Prussian Blue: Again, a turquoise blue, but more leaning into blue when compared to Midway Blue.

Noodler's Heart of Darkness: It's completely black, nothing more to say here

Noodler's Baystate Blue: After all the anticipation i had after reading up on this one, i was kind of underwhelmed. It's darker than expected with a purple undertone which gets even more obvious after being "watertested".

For the watertest:

It was only a few seconds under a running tap. Majestic Blue and Clairefontaine Velouté is a bad combination, on standard paper Majestic Blue doesn't fade as bad as this (of course even then it's far from being water resistant).

Midway Blue though performs like this on cheap paper as well.

For the Bulletproof Inks: Legal Lapis, Prussian Blue and HoD essentially look as before. There's only very little ink being washed out at first, after that it stays the same even when being drowned for a long time.

Although again, on cheaper paper the ink looked even better after being washed. It just seems the ink can't bond as good with the slick Velouté paper (maybe that's common knowledge around here, but hey, i'm a bloody newbie )

Baystate Blue on the other hand bleeds like hell at first, which simply might be a combination of a wet writer and the Clairefontaine Paper. But since i won't let it anywhere near the Safaris or the M605, i can't test this "thesis" right now, and so i can't use BSB as a true waterproof ink.

Hope this helps someone who's looking for the same colors out there

Edited February 14, 2010 by maschuu