EFNIR: Kaweco Summer Purple

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Kaweco Summer Purple

This is review #59 in my series.  Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: Slightly red-leaning purple.  The cameras didn't really like it, but the zoom image looks quite close to me.

Quick and easy cleaning with plain water.

And here is a screen of the final result, for those not interested in the video:

Scan of Completed Review:

Zoomed in photo:

Absorbent Paper Closeup (puzzle paper like thick newsprint):

Screenshots also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap

Previous Review: Herbin Lie de Thé.

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Hope you enjoy.  Comments appreciated!

[yazeh]

This really looks nice to look at. Great job Liz

 

I had a cartridge version of this ink. I found the flow not the best, it often dried up and skipped ironically in a wet Kaweco! but the colour was lovely and it had some water resistance. Glad it worked well for you...

 

Are you sure it was Quintus who was pushing the sphinx's toe or was it Courgette his apprentice?

[I-am-not-really-here]

Nice one!  Not as dusky as some other reviews have shown it.  Maybe the EF nib keeps the gray (grey?) at bay.  

[LizEF]

47 minutes ago, yazeh said:

This really looks nice to look at. Great job Liz

 

Thanks!

 

47 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Are you sure it was Quintus who was pushing the sphinx's toe or was it Courgette his apprentice?

 

Courgette has yet to make it outside your imagination.   Sorry, but apparently my brain is having a hard time animating a zucchini.  (Tomorrow, however, we will be peeling and shredding zucchini, then baking them in loaves of zucchini bread.  )

[LizEF]

28 minutes ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

Nice one!  Not as dusky as some other reviews have shown it.  Maybe the EF nib keeps the gray (grey?) at bay.  

 

Thanks.  Yeah, I wouldn't call it dusky, just not ridiculously bright.   After the review, I put the cartridge into my Karas Kustoms Fountain K Mini, and though it's an EF nib, it's a whole lot fatter than the nib used for the reviews, and it was still a nice purple, not dusky.  Even the swatch looks pretty normal / non-dusky.  Of course, these things are pretty subjective.  Anywho, I think it's a nice, normal purple that leans to the red side rather than the blue.

[MsRedpen]

One of my first purples

Still liked a lot.

 

Name switched from Aubergine to Summer purple at some point.

With Courgette in the mix... 😉

[LizEF]

18 minutes ago, MsRedpen said:

One of my first purples

Still liked a lot.

 

Name switched from Aubergine to Summer purple at some point.

With Courgette in the mix... 😉

 

Summer Purple seems like a better name to me - it's not dark enough for Aubergine.

[LizEF]

Here's the line width measurement. The line is one of those used for dry time.  Magnification is 100x.  The grid is 100x100µm.  The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each.  The line width for this ink is roughly 275µm.