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With some inquiring, I found out that this is a Philippine-market-exclusive ink. Just like Dark Olive was before being integrated into the whole line. A bit unfortunate too since, although I can get them easily, the local pen users aren't really the ink-reviewing sort of people that could catapult these into popularity or even to just get a single photo comparing it with other blues.

Looks a bit like Blue Velvet, no? The person who posted the photo says it's more saturated than Oxford Blue.

You can find it in everythingcalligraphy.com or pengrafik.com (no affiliation) but I'm not sure how international shipping will cost.

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Diamine Warm Brown and Spring Green are renamed inks and are part of the standard Diamine range. I mentioned them on here when they were renamed. Diamine Cool Green is also in the standard range on the Diamine web-site.

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Cool Green, Spring Green and Warm Brown are all Diamine renamings of Diamine inks which already existed. See the index of ink reviews. Those three new names were added two or three months ago.

Lapiz Blue is new. Looks good to me.

 

Mike

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We don't know for sure if they have done that, but I bet all manufacturers do it.

 

I don't believe that every single Sailor ink branded as either a Sailor ink or a store exclusive ink is entirely individual rather than one ink being rebranded under a different name. How big is the factory? It would take up all of Japan just to house them all. :D

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With some inquiring, I found out that this is a Philippine-market-exclusive ink. Just like Dark Olive was before being integrated into the whole line. A bit unfortunate too since, although I can get them easily, the local pen users aren't really the ink-reviewing sort of people that could catapult these into popularity or even to just get a single photo comparing it with other blues.

 

Looks a bit like Blue Velvet, no? The person who posted the photo says it's more saturated than Oxford Blue.

 

You can find it in everythingcalligraphy.com or pengrafik.com (no affiliation) but I'm not sure how international shipping will cost.

 

You are absolutely correct. Diamine Lapiz Blue is a bespoke colour for the Philippine market and Dark Olive is also an exclusive colour that hasn't been integrated into the Diamine standard range.

 

Lapiz Blue looks quite a bit darker than Blue Velvet.

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