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Today I’m reviewing a sample of Diamine Cool Green

It’s an interesting greenish/turquoise. This shade reminds me of my Viridian Green pigment. I found it had good flow while I was writing with it. I didn’t see any spread or feathering, nor any woolly line with the F nib. I saw a couple of signs of woolly line on the Oxford paper and when I first started writing on the Midori paper with the wet Jinhao M nib. However, that nib had just been dipped into the ink.

Sadly, on the review form, I managed to get some water from the water test to run all the way across the page before I blotted it. So some of the writing in the Further Notes/Observations has been water damaged.

Cool Green looks quite saturated, especially with my broader nibs. The M and BB nibs also made it look a darker colour. It exhibited plenty of very attractive shading with all of the nibs I used.

I found it behaved very well, and I like it. I didn’t experience any clogging or clean-up problems with it. In fact clean-up was very easy. It washes off hands with soap and water.

It’s darker and more saturated than Pelikan Edelstein Jade.

  • This isn't sold as a waterproof ink, but it has reasonable water resistance.
  • Bearing in mind the review form paper I use is thick with a quite shiny surface at 100gsm, and I used several different nibs, this ink dried very quickly with the F nib, but as it’s a wet ink it took longer to dry when I used my broader nibs.
  • No smear after dry.
  • It exhibited good flow and I found it very smooth to write with. I saw no skips or hard starts while I did swabs and dry time tests.
  • It is currently available in 80ml glass bottles or 30ml plastic bottles.
  • Diamine sell it directly to end-users on their web-site.
  • It's a reasonable price.

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I believe this is one of the re-named ones; formally Dark Green. Not quite my colour under either name, but thanks for the review, Chrissy!

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It used to be called Dark Green. It's now called Cool Green. The name changed at the same time as Umber changed to Green Umber.

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I believe this is one of the re-named ones; formally Dark Green. Not quite my colour under either name, but thanks for the review, Chrissy!

You're welcome. :)

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Never noticed the existence of this one. Is it new?

 

Not my kind of green, too much blue for me. Great review though, as always!

You're welcome :)

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Very nice review! I do like this green! I will have to add this one to my list.

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