Comparison of shading between three Noodler's orange inks

[Mongo]

These were written with a 1.0mm italic dip pen. The paper is HP Premium Choice Laser paper, 32#.

 

The colors are as closely matched between the paper and my monitor as they can be. <Insert language about all of the things that can go wrong with color matching here.>

 

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv16/dmoeller60/Operation%20Overlord%20Orange/ThreeNoodlersOranges.jpg

 

The easiest way to see how the inks differ in shading is to look at the number "0" at the end of the lines of numbers. You can see how light Apache Sunset gets, and how Habanero remains red throughout.

 

Be well.

-- Dave

[Lloyd]

Excellent comparison!

[PenTieRun]

Oh, very nice. Wonder how cayenne would look in the comparison?

[Dave Johannsen]

Thank you, Dave. THis is really nice to see. It's interesting that, when seen against OOO and AS, the Habanero looks almost red. I think that OOO will be on my shortlist at the DC Show this weekend (that and the Burma Road Brown). Again, thank you for taking the time to provide such nice reviews and for the comparison.

 

 

Dave

[Peter from Sherwood Park]

Thank you for this post!

[KiriBean]

The more I see it compared to other oranges, the more I love Apache Sunset.

 

Thanks for the great comparison.

 

-Kiri.

[Inka]

I have the Habanero ink here and mine looks far more orange with some red highlights/shading, nowhere near as red as yours looks.

In fact, my Habanero looks much closer to your scan of Operation Overlord Orange when I've used the Habanero ink.

My Habanero ink looks close to Apache Sunset does too but with more shading of darker orange/reds when I use it.

Thanks for the review/comparisons; nice work!

 

[Ghost Plane]

This is one of the most useful reviews in ages as it covers 3 inks I've contemplated.

 

One question - Apache Sunset is seriously dry and draggy in my pens. How are the other for flow/wetness in comparison?

[Mongo]

I just pulled out the page that I photographed for this, and the colors on the page match the colors on my profiled monitor. The Habanero is definitely red when written with the 1.0mm dip pen. (The orange shows up most clearly at the right of the "o" in Habanero, top of the "2", the right side of the "6", and the left side of the "9".)

 

I'll try to get together a comparison using a different nib, to show what the inks look like when not laid down so heavily.

[Mongo]

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv16/dmoeller60/Operation%20Overlord%20Orange/ThreeNoodlersOranges-2.jpg

 

This time I used a left-oblique italic Dollar fountain pen. This is a dry writing nib, and as I expected it really made the shading stand out. These colors are probably a lot closer to what you've seen with these inks when they're used in fountain pens. (My original scan, above, was of words written with a 1.0mm dip pen, which put down a great deal of ink compared to a fountain pen.)

[PJohnP]

This is one of the most useful reviews in ages as it covers 3 inks I've contemplated.

 

One question - Apache Sunset is seriously dry and draggy in my pens. How are the other for flow/wetness in comparison?

 

I can't speak for the new V-mail Overlord Orange, but Noodlers Habañero is a moderately "wet" ink, wetter than a Pelikan ink, but not as much as, say, Hunter Green Eternal. I've been using it in a Pelikan M200 Amber with a Kinney cursive italic nib with a comfortable balance of flow. I don't see any nib creep at all, where I do with some other Noodlers in the bulletproof or eternal line, all of which I've found very freeflowing.

 

I can't comment much about Apache Sunset, as I've only tried it as a quick dip, not a fill on a FP. Didn't seen very distinctive in terms of flow for me on that one try-out.

 

 

John P.

[Mongo]

One question - Apache Sunset is seriously dry and draggy in my pens. How are the other for flow/wetness in comparison?

I've found Operation Overlord Orange to be a decently wet ink. The flow has been "just right" in the various pens in which I've used it. This has been true of most of the V-Mail inks I've tried, though Midway Blue and Mandalay Maroon are more wet than the others.