Light Greens Compared

[shaylenwilliams]

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Sorry for the blurriness, but my cell phone did a better job of picking up these colors than my camera did, so there you have it!

Top to bottom we have:

J. Herbin Vert Pre

Rohrer and Klingner Alt-Goldgrun

Iroshizuku Chiku-rin

Diamine Light Green

Diamine Kelly Green

Diamine Meadow

 

My sincere and humble thanks to the FPN pals who generously donated the samples which made this comparison possible!!!

[brunico]

Cool! I've come to appreciate light yellowish greens for editing - and doodling leaves in margins...

 

Do you find the Chiku-rin and the light green so similar in real life (I have only the Diamine)?

 

I also have a sample of Diamine Jade Green, which is a similar colour to Vert pré, and the Sailor limited edition Waka-uguisu, which is a somewhere between Light Green and Alt-Goldgrün: in the middle for lightness/darkness and having more complex shading than Light Green without being as exuberant as Alt-Goldgrün.

 

I'm also wondering whether Meadow would be an efficient colour to add to Noodler's Blue-Black to make more of a dark teal.

[shaylenwilliams]

Chiku-rin and Light green DO look very similar, with the Light Green being just a touch more yellow. I haven't used the Light Green in a pen yet, so I cannot compare behavior characteristics.

[The Good Captain]

It's good to see these compared. I've never used greens (or any colours, really) that are very light as I find that as my eyes have aged (strangely, along with the rest of me) I need increased contrast between ink and paper. So, darker inks predominate my meagre range here.

Diamine Umber is the lightest I have but I must say that the colours you've shown here are pretty striking. Annotation or corrections would be the sort of use I could envisage.

[Laura N]

Great comparison, Shaylen.

 

For The Good Captain: I've used the Meadow, the Alt-Goldgrun, the Chiku-rin and (briefly) the Diamine Light Green, and I find them all very legible. The Meadow and the Alt-Goldgrun are darker, but even the two lighter greens are perfectly fine. And I have those 45-year-old eyes, which is even stranger in my case, since every birthday I remain 29. But the Chiku-rin and the Light Green have a brightness that makes them legible. They are also very cheery.

[vistafan]

Green is my favourite colour and I'm partial to light green inks with yellow undertones.

Thanks for such a great comparison; I have Kelly Green and it is one of my favourite inks. This comparison has confirmed I need to purchase R&K Alt-Goldgrun!

[The Good Captain]

Great comparison, Shaylen.

 

For The Good Captain: I've used the Meadow, the Alt-Goldgrun, the Chiku-rin and (briefly) the Diamine Light Green, and I find them all very legible. The Meadow and the Alt-Goldgrun are darker, but even the two lighter greens are perfectly fine. And I have those 45-year-old eyes, which is even stranger in my case, since every birthday I remain 29. But the Chiku-rin and the Light Green have a brightness that makes them legible. They are also very cheery.

 

Thank you for your suggestions. Our local pen and ink emporium has a Diamine swatch chart made up of actual pieces of paper coloured with the ink in question so I'll have a look at the greens when next in town.

[shaylenwilliams]

Glad I could be of service everyone!

[humblescribbler]

Glad I could be of service everyone!

 

I only own PR's Foam Green. My guess puts it between the Iroshizuku Chiku-rin and the Diamine light. Thoughts?

 

Thank you for the cross-brand chart! Saves someone like me $$.

[shaylenwilliams]

I've had Foam Green in the past, and it is much less yellow than Chiku-rin and Diamine Light Green. On top of that, I found Foam Green far too light to be legible/practical, whereas these two seem to be saturated enough to read.