Diamine Purple Dream (New 150Th Anniversary Ink)

[visvamitra]

It seems Diamine enjoys celebrating its anniversary. This year they added another eight inks to their line of 150th anniversary inks.

The inks are sold in nice and quitye comfortable in use triangular bottles.

Purple Dream is quite plesant ink. It behaves well on most papers and offers satisfying flow. There's no water resistance so if you prefer your inks to cope well with water/tea/coffee spills look elsewhere.

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Color range

Low quality notebook, Wing Sung 6359, EF

Midori, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

[Bhavna]

One of my favourites of the batch.

[lgsoltek]

Looks quite nice. Wonder how it compares with other Diamine purples, say, Handel?

[visvamitra]

Much lighter

[amberleadavis]

Reminds me of the MB Lavender. Thanks for another great review.

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review. I like purples. But maybe I like them too much....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[lapis]

Review is excellent (as always). Colour is okay. Bottle is terrible.

I mean, if they're all that **** hot about their anniversaries, why not just pop back to their good ol' original 80-ml or AFAIC half-pint variety bottles thereof. An' don' you gimme none o' yo' **** about their not being able to find a manufacturer....

[Honeybadgers]

I don't know why I don't have more diamine 150th. I only have blue velvet right now and it is genuinely one of the smoothest writing inks I've ever used, probably one of the best blues on the market.

[Honeybadgers]

Review is excellent (as always). Colour is okay. Bottle is terrible.

I mean, if they're all that **** hot about their anniversaries, why not just pop back to their good ol' original 80-ml or AFAIC half-pint variety bottles thereof. An' don' you gimme none o' yo' **** about their not being able to find a manufacturer....

 

 

The bottles were meant for that cool carousel that you can't actually buy

 

 

I agree. I'd probably buy more if it came in the 80mL bottles.

Edited November 9, 2018 by Honeybadgers

[lapis]

Right! We discussed this at the time those weirdos came out. My suggestion was that we needed a Lazy Susan for them. I'm limited in space, and round or square bottles would fill up more ink in such boxes.