Diamine Aurora Borealis

[Cursive Child]

Nice, well behaved, ink from Diamine. Well lubricating, vivid blue-green closer to the green end of the spectrum. The significantly compressed scan is showing a greener and lighter tinge than it is. E.g. the Ku-Jaku comparison I have shows up bluer than on the scan.

Edited July 25, 2019 by rdugar

[lapis]

Nice review of a nice ink. I'd say more a greeny turquoise than a teally one. A shot of yellow wouldn't have hurt. Fits well to the Northern Lights I've seen myself up north in Canada.

[Patrick L]

Thanks for the review rdugar !

 

Hi Lapis, you say that this ink is more greeny turquoise than teally. Did you actually see this ink in real life or just on your monitor ? I never saw this ink until today.

[Frozenoak]

I may have to give this one a spin. I'm finding that I like greens for letter writing.

[lapis]

Thanks for the review rdugar !

 

Hi Lapis, you say that this ink is more greeny turquoise than teally. Did you actually see this ink in real life or just on your monitor ? I never saw this ink until today.

 

On the screen.

[PAKMAN]

Thanks for the review. I have too many teals that I don't use already or I might give this one a try! lol

[sansenri]

Thank you for showing us that Aurora Borealis by Diamine is a teal/green ink, so I know I should avoid it.

Some of these teal blue/green inks have nice shading, but for some unknown reasons I just can't make myself like this shade of colour.

I use blue inks mostly, and I like most shades of blue (I'm just talking about the colour here, not the other characteristics of the inks), blue-blacks, purple leaning inks, red leaning inks, but not green leaning inks... I also do not love too much turquoise leaning inks (again because they often look greenish).

So thanks for showing us. Diamine has so many other blue inks I still have not tried, I'll probably opt for Imperial next...

[Cursive Child]

Thanks everyone. I myself started out with a preference for dark, bright blues, but moved to darker blue greens.

 

Can anyone give me tips on getting an accurate scan uploaded here? My hp scanner scans a jpeg to about 6 mb. I have to edit and crop to a smaller size, but then fpn reduces the resolution further. The image above is quite different from the original scanned image i see on my laptop.

[Bhavna]

Have been wondering whether to get this or not, jury's still out, but I appreciate your review and very beautiful handwriting!

[Bhavna]

Thanks everyone. I myself started out with a preference for dark, bright blues, but moved to darker blue greens.

 

Can anyone give me tips on getting an accurate scan uploaded here? My hp scanner scans a jpeg to about 6 mb. I have to edit and crop to a smaller size, but then fpn reduces the resolution further. The image above is quite different from the original scanned image i see on my laptop.

 

Have you tried taking pictures of your reviews? This might help and then you can crop and adjust as necessary. Good luck!

[Enkida]

Nice review! I like this ink a lot. The color is great, and the shading is even better

[thudthwacker]

I picked up a 30ml bottle of this ink a couple of months ago, and it rapidly became a favorite. Love the teal color, the behavior is very good in any pen I've tried it in, and the moderate water resistance means I can use it on postcards without (too much) fear. Thanks very much for the review!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Good that it is a green-greenish ink.

So now I have 26 or 27 bottles of greenish inks. I don't think I have too much green, thought with half as many blues, I think I have more than enough blue. 

My bottle of Aurora Borealis sat hidden, in plain sight for months, and I'd not remembered what color it was supposed to be, when I suddenly found it today.

I do have to look up teal to see more what it could be, or is.