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When I got sick few years ago (virus called pens and inks), I started picking different inks. I was amazed by Caran d'Ache Color of the Earth inks.




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The thing is the inks were discontinued before I had a chance to try all of them. I was disappointed to hear Colors of the earth were replaced by Chromatics.




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OK, the bottle is cool, colors seem nice, so what's the problem?



One - no more Amazon and Grand Canyon! I can get over Amazon, with time I started to prefer murkier greens, but Grand Canyon was in my top 5 of browns.



Two - the price. OK, Chromatics bottles are 50 ml compared to Colors of the Earth 30 ml bottles yet the price per ml increased by 25,7 % (I compare prices in Poland : 55 PLN / 30 ml vs 115 PLN / 50 ml).



Are they really worth it? Well, I like the way Caran d'Ache market their products, I like the bottle and the brand. If I'll be able to try all of these inks, I'll review them here. It will take time though. At the moment I have only sample of Organic Brown and Ultraviolet bottle. Some time ago I've reviewed Infinite grey which was cool.


  1. Cosmic Black
  2. Delicate Green
  3. Divine Pink
  4. Electric Orange
  5. Hypnotic Turquoise
  6. Idyllic Blue
  7. Infinite - Grey
  8. Infra Red
  9. Magnetic Blue
  10. Organic Brown
  11. Ultra Violet
  12. Vibrant Green

Infrared is nice, bright red (on poppy side of reds) that has litle shading. It behaves well on papers I've tried so far. When it comes to water resistance - it has none. Basdically the ink is rather nice but for the price I would expect much more than "rather nice" :)



Ink Splash



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Drops of ink on kitchen towel



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Software ID



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Color Range



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Waterproofness



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Oxford Recycled ( 90g, satined paper ), St Dupont Fidelio, M





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Rhodia Ivory, St Dupont Fidelio M



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TeNeues, St Dupont Fidelio M




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Serlo NOS (New Old Stock)

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Thanks for your review. One of my colleagues gave me her bottle of unfinished infrared ink because she didn't like the ink. That is not the colour of the ink, but how it writes. She told me that the ink didn't behave well, took ages to dry and writes very wet (by the way, she also uses a Caran d'Ache pen). She got a bottle of Lamy red ink instead and is very happy with the much less expensive ink.

 

As I haven't tried it so far (and don't have to/want to use red ink right now), I'd like to ask you whether you think that this ink, indeed is very wet and should work best in a dry writing pen.

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Well - it definitely is wet. So far I haven't used in in really wet nib, but I have 2 more mililitres so I'll fill my crazy wide Caran d'Ache Varius with it and see what I get :)

Drying time isn't outrageous and I haven't observed any misbehaviour but I'll keep my eyes open :)

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One of my colleagues gave me her bottle of unfinished infrared ink because she didn't like the ink. That is not the colour of the ink, but how it writes. She told me that the ink didn't behave well, took ages to dry and writes very wet (by the way, she also uses a Caran d'Ache pen).

 

My TWSBI Eco (F nib) is currently inked with Infra Red. The flow's ideal in this pen, and has been very well behaved...even in the small Moleskine journal I keep track of which ink is in which pen.

 

It's also performed nicely on grid paper, Hammermill LaserPrint, multiple notepads, and Rhodia Dot Pad. No feathering/bleeding at all.

 

My only concern is that it appears to be a "stainer." Will need a fill of Noodler's Rattler Red Eel to loose the Infra Red tint.

 

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Why are there fourteen samples of dark plum ink on my desk? Because I still haven't found the right shade.

Is that a problem...??? : : : sigh : : :

 

Update: Great. Finally found one I love (Lamy Dark Lilac) but I can't get more. Ah, life in my inky world....

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I find the name a bit weird. Infrared is a word that describes radiation that is not visible (longer wavelengths than red). Infrared detectors detect heat. So that is what rattlesnakes can detect. Similarly, ultraviolet is radiation with shorter wavelengths than visible light. So you can "see" it with a black light. Do these inks actually have infrared and ultraviolet properties or is the naming a bit of poetic (or marketing) license?

 

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I find the name a bit weird. Infrared is a word that describes radiation that is not visible (longer wavelengths than red). Infrared detectors detect heat. So that is what rattlesnakes can detect. Similarly, ultraviolet is radiation with shorter wavelengths than visible light. So you can "see" it with a black light. Do these inks actually have infrared and ultraviolet properties or is the naming a bit of poetic (or marketing) license?

 

Dave

 

It's all marketing. Nice ink, though, and another beautiful review.

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I find the name a bit weird. Infrared is a word that describes radiation that is not visible (longer wavelengths than red). Infrared detectors detect heat. So that is what rattlesnakes can detect. Similarly, ultraviolet is radiation with shorter wavelengths than visible light. So you can "see" it with a black light. Do these inks actually have infrared and ultraviolet properties or is the naming a bit of poetic (or marketing) license?

 

Dave

Its a red color that was popularized by Nike. Particular the Airmax 90 Infrared. Not sure if there is a patent on this color.

 

Does anyone know if a fountain pen ink that matches the infrared color used by Nike on some of their shoes? Is this CDA the same shade?

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Its a red color that was popularized by Nike. Particular the Airmax 90 Infrared. Not sure if there is a patent on this color.

 

Does anyone know if a fountain pen ink that matches the infrared color used by Nike on some of their shoes? Is this CDA the same shade?

Marketing people... :roller1:

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Name of the ink is Infra Red. Two words.

Add lightness and simplicate.

 

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Name of the ink is Infra Red. Two words.

 

Which is not the common spelling of the word in question.... Let's not be rude here.

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It seems similar to Iroshizuku fuyu gaki. Does anyone have both that could comment. I prefer reds in this range.

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