Colorverse Bluish Green review

[A Smug Dill]

 

 

Colour: What it says on the tin — bluish green, i.e. teal, tending to navy when the ink mark or line is wet.

 

Feathering: Not observed on Rhodia Dotpad 80g/m² paper.

Show-through: Not observed on Rhodia Dotpad 80g/m² paper.

Bleed-through: Not observed on Rhodia Dotpad 80g/m² paper.

 

Drying time: When written with a reasonably ‘wet’ pen on Rhodia Dotpad 80g/m² paper, after 30 seconds there is still faintly observable smudging when rubbed. With the sort of pen, 25 seconds would probably be sufficient; but I'm wary that the colour would be reactivated by the slightest hint of moisture, given the ink's potential to exhibit sheen.

 

 

Water resistance: Medium. Leaving a distinct line or shape that doesn't get obliterated by water is not the challenge here; good luck making out the written content when those marks are obscured by the washed out colour around it, though.

 

Shading: Nicely blended shading can be seen even when writing with a fine nib. (14 horizontal lines in a 5mm-tall space is Extra Fine grade.) Takes a certain amount of ‘wetness’ of the line before shading manifests, though; there is more shading observed with the generally wetter pen here, when with other inks it's usually the drier pen that elicits more shading.

 

 

Sheen: Plenty of potential for purplish red sheen, but just not on Rhodia Dotpad 80g/m² paper. The splat on the right on the Arttec Como paper swatch card has an almost unbroken layer of sheen.

 

 

 

 

[maclink]

I like that colour.  Nice review!  Thanks.

[yazeh]

thanks for the review Dil. I'm a sucker for blue greens, but I have enough  

[mizgeorge]

It's a pretty ink (though I don't particularly like the whole red/purple sheen thing), but I'm unconvinced it's worth the colorverse premium price compared to others that are pretty similar.

 

Thanks for the very thorough (as always) review. 

[LizEF]

  Thanks, Dill!  Like everyone else, I shall resist.  This is the kind of color that appeals to me at first, but bores me by the time I finish the sample.  (And Colorverse inks aren't always offered as samples - at least not the ones in 2-color sets.)

[namrehsnoom]

Thanks for showing this ink, and for the detailed info. I like teals a lot, and this one looks really nice. But it’s not going to make my wish-list. I already have enough teals, and this one doesn’t look special enough to earn its own place. Looks lovely though.

[lapis]

5 hours ago, LizEF said:

... This is the kind of color that appeals to me at first, but bores me by the time I finish the sample....

Thanks from me too for your invigorating review. This is the kind of color that doesn't appeal to me at all. Never did like any tealishness. I don't think I like any color less. Wait! Pink is even worse IMO (maybe just because it's usually unreadable).

[PithyProlix]

Thanks for the great, informative review. The comparison between a relatively dry pen and a relatively wet pen seems particularly useful. For me the color is good, especially as teals go, but not remarkable. 

[A Smug Dill]

46 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

The comparison between a relatively dry pen and a relatively wet pen seems particularly useful.

 

I usually don't do that kind of thing, but this had actually started out being a test of the Moonman 80 mini's stock nib, on the blue-green unit my wife has asked me to fill up for her; and I happen to already have one of my pens (of which I haven't really assessed the wetness) filled with the same ink.

 

For what it's worth, I've read multiple reports of the Moonman 80 mini's nib and feed being so dry the pen's nigh unusable out-of-the-box. I've now inked with and tested two different units, and it certainly isn't what I've found. The one I used for this ink review is on the drier side of moderate, but no more so than the other pens I tend to like to use. The other unit I've just tested (with Noodler's Bad Belted Kingfisher) is wetter, and the thick lines it puts down are nowhere near fine in width.

[PithyProlix]

3 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

For what it's worth, I've read multiple reports of the Moonman 80 mini's nib and feed being so dry the pen's nigh unusable out-of-the-box. I've now inked with and tested two different units, and it certainly isn't what I've found. The one I used for this ink review is on the drier side of moderate, but no more so than the other pens I tend to like to use. The other unit I've just tested (with Noodler's Bad Belted Kingfisher) is wetter, and the thick lines it puts down are nowhere near fine in width.

I have a Moonman 80s and it's slightly dry, which is also my preference, and has a fine line, the width I typically use - I've not tinkered with its nib at all. My Parker 45s (the nib unit is copied by the Moonman 80-series as I'm sure you know), tend to be significantly wetter so I wonder if the folks who complain about the dryness are (perhaps implicitly) comparing it with their Parker 45s. (By the way, while my Moonman 80s' nib 'feel' on paper is not quite as good as any of my Parker 45s, I quite like the pen: it's the only stock Chinese pen that I am using regularly. I ordered another one a few days ago - no-brainer at the $3 USD it costs, shipped.)

[SeeksAdvice]

Wow... a lot like GvFC Deep Sea Green except with more water resistance.  Love the color.  It's dark enough too for a professional setting.

 

+1 for the Latin

[VivaTerlingua]

Looks a lot like the Pen Chalet Colorverse exclusive ink they had a while back called “Monsoon Storm”, my favorite dark teal ink. I’ll have to try a sample to compare, would be very happy to have a doppelgänger.

[sansenri]

Thank you for the review, always nice to see your writing skills.

For reasons that I cannot pinpoint, I have an aversion to teal and blue green inks...

[InesF]

Thank you @A Smug Dill for this review. I like your different handwriting styles a lot!

Sorry, I have seen it only after @LizEF's recent review.

This is an interesting colour for me and has high potential. The long dry time and sensitivity to smudge are the biggest hurdles - and shouldn't be for such an expensive  ink.

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, InesF said:

The long dry time

The comparison between ASD's dry times and my own seems bizarre.  If anything, his should need more time than my Japanese EF...  Just shows that nothing can replace testing things yourself.

[A Smug Dill]

On 2/24/2022 at 2:29 AM, LizEF said:

The comparison between ASD's dry times and my own seems bizarre.

 

I retested the drying time on Rhodia DotPad 80g/m² paper (2020 stock), using a Pilot MR's steel F nib as a dip pen nib. It's been rainy all bloody week in Sydney, so humidity was certainly not low when I did the test yesterday.

 

≤15 seconds for quick writing, including a reasonably juicy dot atop a minuscule ‘j’.

<30 seconds for deliberately wetter writing; at 20 and 25 seconds, there was only the faintest bit of smudging from where the strokes in the minuscule ‘t‘ intersected.

[LizEF]

5 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

I retested the drying time on Rhodia DotPad 80g/m² paper (2020 stock), using a Pilot MR's steel F nib as a dip pen nib. It's been rainy all bloody week in Sydney, so humidity was certainly not low when I did the test yesterday.

 

≤15 seconds for quick writing, including a reasonably juicy dot atop a minuscule ‘j’.

<30 seconds for deliberately wetter writing; at 20 and 25 seconds, there was only the faintest bit of smudging from where the strokes in the minuscule ‘t‘ intersected.

Still bizarre.