Jump to content

Diamine Aurora Borealis


Cursive Child

Recommended Posts

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.

post-2387-0-37918200-1564074149_thumb.jpg

Edited by rdugar
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 11
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Cursive Child

    2

  • lapis

    2

  • Bhavna

    2

  • Patrick L

    1

Top Posters In This Topic

Posted Images

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.

Life is too short to drink bad wine (Goethe)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

Life is too short to drink bad wine (Goethe)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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

PAKMAN

minibanner.gif                                    Vanness-world-final.png.c1b120b90855ce70a8fd70dd342ebc00.png

                         My Favorite Pen Restorer                                             My Favorite Pen Store

                                                                                                                                Vanness Pens - Selling Online!

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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... :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

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

If there is righteousness in the heart, There will be beauty in character. If there is beauty in character, There will be harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, There will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world. Bhagawan Shri Satya Sai Baba

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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!

If there is righteousness in the heart, There will be beauty in character. If there is beauty in character, There will be harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, There will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world. Bhagawan Shri Satya Sai Baba

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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

sig2.jpgsig1.jpg



Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men always have a choice - if not whether, then how they endure.


- Lois McMaster Bujold

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 5 months later...

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!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Most Contributions

    1. amberleadavis
      amberleadavis
      43844
    2. PAKMAN
      PAKMAN
      33501
    3. Ghost Plane
      Ghost Plane
      28220
    4. inkstainedruth
      inkstainedruth
      26627
    5. jar
      jar
      26101
  • Upcoming Events

  • Blog Comments

    • Shanghai Knife Dude
      I have the Sailor Naginata and some fancy blade nibs coming after 2022 by a number of new workshop from China.  With all my respect, IMHO, they are all (bleep) in doing chinese characters.  Go use a bush, or at least a bush pen. 
    • A Smug Dill
      It is the reason why I'm so keen on the idea of a personal library — of pens, nibs, inks, paper products, etc. — and spent so much money, as well as time and effort, to “build” it for myself (because I can't simply remember everything, especially as I'm getting older fast) and my wife, so that we can “know”; and, instead of just disposing of what displeased us, or even just not good enough to be “given the time of day” against competition from >500 other pens and >500 other inks for our at
    • adamselene
      Agreed.  And I think it’s good to be aware of this early on and think about at the point of buying rather than rationalizing a purchase..
    • A Smug Dill
      Alas, one cannot know “good” without some idea of “bad” against which to contrast; and, as one of my former bosses (back when I was in my twenties) used to say, “on the scale of good to bad…”, it's a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Whereas subjectively acceptable (or tolerable) and unacceptable may well be a dichotomy to someone, and finding whether the threshold or cusp between them lies takes experiencing many degrees of less-than-ideal, especially if the decision is somehow influenced by factors o
    • adamselene
      I got my first real fountain pen on my 60th birthday and many hundreds of pens later I’ve often thought of what I should’ve known in the beginning. I have many pens, the majority of which have some objectionable feature. If they are too delicate, or can’t be posted, or they are too precious to face losing , still they are users, but only in very limited environments..  I have a big disliking for pens that have the cap jump into the air and fly off. I object to Pens that dry out, or leave blobs o
  • Chatbox

    You don't have permission to chat.
    Load More
  • Files






×
×
  • Create New...