Diamine Royal Blue

[chuancao]

Hope you all find this helpful. I will also do a review of blueblack when I get a chance tomorrow.

[simonrob]

I bought a bottle of this a couple of years ago, thought it rather insipid after it dries (like so many low-saturation inks) and shoved it to the back of a closet. A couple of days ago I thought I would give it another chance, and decided on a wet-nibbed vintage pen in the hope that it would make the ink look less insipid and add to whatever shading it was capable of. Well, that was a mistake - the ink gushes incontinently, resulting in the worst feathering and bleed-through I've ever seen - not just on cheap copier paper but on Clairefontaine and Rhodia. And it still looked insipid and didn't shade much. To be avoided in wet writers (and by me, period...).

 

Simon

[Ann Finley]

I like this ink because the shade is definitely distinguishable from my Diamine Sapphire & Herbin Eclat de Saphir--but I agree that it's a fast flow ink. Mine looks less turquoise-y than what I'm seeing on my monitor.

 

Best, Ann

[DanF]

Mine also appears darker than the sample above, and very dark in a wet writer. I like it.

 

Dan

[mucephei]

The scan's not far off the colour of this ink. I have some in one of my pens at the moment. I have to agree that it's a wet ink but too pale for my taste.

[Triplet Mom]

I really like the vibrant bright azure-blue color and great shading properties of this ink. It seems to be the only ink juicy and wet enough to make my fine point MB Greta Garbo write well.