EFNIR: Colorverse Sea of Tranquillity

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Colorverse Sea of Tranquillity

This is review #224 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: This was a gift from a generous FPNer.  Cleaning was quick and easy and revealed a hint of grey.  I don't really have anything quite like this color, but it's sort of a paler version of De Atramentis Jane Austin.

An Ink Guy says this ink is really dry.  You should probably trust his judgement more than mine, but as far as EF nibs are concerned, this ink flows very well.

Errata: (missing "f" at start of last sentence of Subjective Analysis) "If the long dry time..."

Zoomed in photo (Color is close, but not quite bright enough.)

Screenshot (The text color isn't a bright enough green.)

Scan of Completed Review (The text color is a little too blue, I think, but this is closest to what my eyes see.)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Both are close, but not exactly the right color.)

Line width (One of the lines 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 315µm. With 224 inks measured, the average line width is 295µm.)

Microscope image (400x. Three images combined, two cell phones, one with the microscope software. The correct green is in there somewhere. The specs were pink to my eyes.)

Previous Review: PenBBS #406 Dark Moon Myriad Stars.

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Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

[Sailor Kenshin]

Unusual indeed, and I don't have a green like this, unless you count my 90% water-diluted Noodler's Bad Green Gator.  
 

I no longer have my sample of Diamine Umber, but it was a flat green, no shading.  Some shading is visible in your close-up of the writing.  I could live with the feathers.  It's just that Eternal dry time….

 

Thanks as always for the review.  And story.  I'm getting worried about Quin!

[yazeh]

Great job @LizEF 

 

I like the name of this ink, it matches the colour perfectly, even though it pertains to the moon. Probably the grey in the ink was a "wink" to the lunar attribution.  

What creative imagination: Lamyton/ Atremntiberg/mold plague . What names will you come up of with next? Urkundentintenville? 😜

 

Looking forward to next week as usual

 

 

[txomsy]

Nice ink. Pity I do not use green that much.

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Unusual indeed, and I don't have a green like this, unless you count my 90% water-diluted Noodler's Bad Green Gator.

 

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

no longer have my sample of Diamine Umber, but it was a flat green, no shading.  Some shading is visible in your close-up of the writing.  I could live with the feathers.  It's just that Eternal dry time….

The close-ups always make it easier to see shading.  And yeah, eternal dry times.  Sigh.

 

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks as always for the review.  And story.  I'm getting worried about Quin!

You're very welcome!

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Great job @LizEF 

Thanks!

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

I like the name of this ink, it matches the colour perfectly, even though it pertains to the moon. Probably the grey in the ink was a "wink" to the lunar attribution.

Agreed - a very tranquil color.

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

What creative imagination: Lamyton/ Atremntiberg/mold plague . What names will you come up of with next? Urkundentintenville? 😜

You ain't seen nothin' yet!   (These are ink reviews, after all...)

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Looking forward to next week as usual

[LizEF]

45 minutes ago, txomsy said:

Nice ink. Pity I do not use green that much.

Well, there's still time.  You could use more...

[InesF]

Thank you, @LizEF for the story part and for exposing yourself to a non-routine behaving green ink.

To my experience, Colorverse inks are a bit on the wetter and more lubricated side - this would be in line with your experience. The tassel in the microscope image is funny and suggests that there may be more hidden in this ink, than the routine use may reveal.   

 

[LizEF]

7 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @LizEF for the story part and for exposing yourself to a non-routine behaving green ink.

You're very welcome!

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

To my experience, Colorverse inks are a bit on the wetter and more lubricated side - this would be in line with your experience.

Mine, too!  Great for EFs, not so much for poor @Sailor Kenshin's south paw...

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

The tassel in the microscope image is funny and suggests that there may be more hidden in this ink, than the routine use may reveal.   

  Yes, I frequently see this sort of "widely distributed" blotch of different color.  I suspect it would show up in chromatography as a very thin line of pink.

[namrehsnoom]

Thanks for the review, @LizEF.  A strange green indeed. For me, the colour doesn’t work though. The colour just seems a little off.  Off what… I don’t really know 😉. To me, it looks like a green that started off towards grey territory, but ran out of fuel before reaching its destination. It wants to be a nice green-grey, but it didn’t arrive at that point. 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, namrehsnoom said:

Thanks for the review, @LizEF.

You're very welcome!

 

1 hour ago, namrehsnoom said:

A strange green indeed. For me, the colour doesn’t work though. The colour just seems a little off.  Off what… I don’t really know 😉. To me, it looks like a green that started off towards grey territory, but ran out of fuel before reaching its destination. It wants to be a nice green-grey, but it didn’t arrive at that point. 

Not quite spring, not muted, not bold, not pastel...  But being tranquil, it doesn't mind that we think it's strange.