Kaweco Has News Ink Colors Out On The Market...

[niksch]

Have anyone here tried them. Eggplant sounds interesting.

[MsRedpen]

 

I think last two new ink colours from Kaweco were Orange and Grey.

 

Eggplant sounds more like the good old Summer Purple / Auberigne as some vendors call the same ink interchangeably.

 

If I am right that Eggplant = Auberigne = Summer purple:

 

It is an ink I like a lot, and it's permanently refilled in Kaweco Sport Burgundy.

 

On the performance I found it to be just slightly on the dry side (still less than some other Kaweco inks i.e. Caramel Brown/Sepia), with good flow.

 

It is leaning more to the red side of burgundy colour than on the blue - what would the name Auberigne (Eggplant) suggest.

 

EDT: Sample above written with standard Kaweco F nib, on very thin 60g office paper (quite absorbent)

Edited May 23, 2018 by MsRedpen

[ENewton]

I like Summer Purple. I have found it to be well behaved and to shade even in a fine nib.

 

In my experience, it doesn't lean very red. I would not call it burgundy.