PR Foam Green

[Neecerie]

I got a bottle of Foam Green last night to go in my new Monteverde Jeweleria green pen.

 

It's nice ink, seems to flow well but not flood the paper. For such a light colour, it does at least have shading with the medium nib that I was using.

 

I will use it in spring mostly, atlhough it does match the pen. I might also add a drop or two of something a bit more blue-ish to make it a bit more 'seafoamy' to my sense of vision.

[Armchop]

:meow:

er, yuk!

Thanks for the review though, Neecerie!

Armchop

[Judybug]

Thanks, Neecerie. This really is a nice spring green. Makes me think of new spring foliage rather than "sea foam." I've learned the hard way [buying ink I end up not using] that I'm just not happy with very light colored ink for writing letters or taking notes. However, they are nice sometimes for a greeting on a handmade greeting card.

 

Judybug

[Neecerie]

Am still using it in the pen, and the ink colour really seems to vary with the paper as it dries.

 

It's anywhere from that spring green you saw, to indeed a slightly more seafoam colour.

 

Not sorry I picked it up at all. I will probably use it more in spring then in the autumn, but I can totally see writing snails with it around easter!

 

 

I will try to get more scans of it on different paper, since in this case it -really- looks different on different paper.

[DilettanteG]

Thanks for the sample Neecerie. It's a bit yellow for my tastes, but it does scream Easter egg green.

 

Let us know how your custom mix turns out.

[AndrewW]

I just got a bottle of Foam Green yesterday. I have to say that it isn't a colour that I would normally have bought, but I was looking for a match for a sample of 1940s Sheaffer Green that didn't involve my constantly diluting Diamine Blue Steel. A pastel shade was clearly called for. Foam Green is, in fact, a much truer green than the vintage Sheaffer, but I'm still glad I bought it. Someone, somewhere, described it as an "ice cream" green, and I can see what they mean. Think of a small amount of true medium green mixed into a tub of thick white cream. On my monitor, the scan above is pretty close on the colour, but it doesn't quite capture that creamy quality. Foam Green is quite a pale ink, but still very legible. The nearest comparison is probably JH Vert Pre, but that has more yellow tones and lacks the "creamy" quality. Unusually for a PR ink (IMHO), it seems to give pretty good shading. I'm very pleased with it, and expect to use it quite a lot.