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Flow: Easy, smoth, moderate flow. Ideal. Lubrication: Moderate or slightly more. Shading: A surprising amount on Clairefontaine considering how pale it is, but it does shade, absolutely, but only on good paper. No such luck, or rather, harder to get on Staples bagasse and/or cheaper. Saturation: Not saturated, but readable. Sheen: Again, a surprising amount, considering its saturation. Feathering: See below… Ghosting/Bleeding: Not really. You need to lay down a rather heavy line to get any ghosting, but when you do it, it MAY bleed. Smearing: None, even in the areas of heavy flexion. Dry times: About 15 seconds for a moderately wet Japanese XF line. Observations: As far as lubrication goes, it's great and slick on good smooth paper, but I can feel a noticeable difference on cheaper stuff. DRY TIMES: It's not a miracle worker, and able to dry quickly in widely flexed lined on ink resistant paper, but it's very good in that regard. FEATHERING: Only on the cheapest copy paper under flexion (a terrible idea anyway). See Staples bagasse attachment. Honestly, my first impression of this ink was made before I wrote with it the first time; I looked at the pale, yellow orange liquid in the sample vial and thought, I'd never be able to use it because it would be too hard to see, well, I was mostly wrong. In my preferred type of nib fine or XF, this is unusably light. In anything broader or wetter, it's workable. In a flex pen, it's refined and delicate.