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As mentioned in my previous post, United Inkdom have very kindly allowed me to swatch test and play with the two new Kaweco inks - Kaweco Sunrise Orange and Smokey Grey. I swatch tested the full Kaweco ink range, as it was, back in May 2016. I pointed out that the inks were almost identical to the Caran d'Ache range except that Kaweco had a better price point. And they are good inks! The Caramel was a stand out with it's unique reaction to bleach. You can find this article on my blog site at www.quinkandbleach.wordpress.com Sunrise Orange - A dusky rich orange that blends easily with water bleeding out lighter tones of orange at the outer edges. Lovely white gold when reacting with bleach. A great writing ink with good visibility. Smokey Grey - A surprisingly thin warm grey ink that blends easily with water bleeding out cool greys with faint hints of purple at the outer edges. A fantastic neon glow when subjected to bleach. A mid warm grey colour when used for writing. Both of these colours are a logical and welcome addition to the range which now feels much more complete. Available in the classic Kaweco bottles and also as cartridges. From a creative perspective, they blend well together and look great with metal dust additives. Well done Kaweco! Swatches and test art created on Bockingford 200lb watercolour paper and Rhodia dot matrix with man made fibre watercolour brushes, a Noodler's Nib Creeper, a dip pen with a zebra G flex nib, an automatic pen and Schmincke gold dust. If you like what I'm up to, you can also follow me on social media: Instagram: @quinkandbleach Twitter: @nickistew Facebook: Fountain Pen Inks & Bleach AND, just for the record – I do this for myself, I receive no remuneration what-so-ever and I tell it exactly how I see it.

Kaweco sent me a Kaweco Classic Sport Red FP in exchange for an honest review, and they included a pack of Sunrise Orange ink cartridges in the box. So I thought some of you might like to see it. I have reviewed the Kaweco Classic Sport here and used a writing sample of this ink in that review. Here it is again: I gave the pen a couple of shakes after inserting the cartridge, and it wrote straight away. Sometimes you need to squeeze a little water through Kaweco Sport pens before writing with them, but I didn't do this. The ink flowed quite smoothly, and lubricated the nib quite well without a hard start or any skipping. I saw plenty of shading in the ink. It felt slightly dryer that some other inks that I have used lately, but I don't find any of my Kaweco Sport pen and Kaweco ink combinations to be wet. The orange ink colour is attractive, and isn't so bright as to be retina searing. In fact, compared with some of the orange inks I've tried before, it's quite sophisticated and restrained. The ink didn't show through on any of the papers that I tried it with, apart from the 50gsm Tomoe River, and all inks seem to show through on that paper. It didn't bleed through on any of the papers I tried it with. It dried fairly quickly on all of the papers. Comparison swab tests of orange inks: Picture of cartridge pack: Chroma tests with water for comparison. Left to Right: Diamine Marigold, Diamine Orange, Diamine Pumpkin, Diamine Sunset, Kaweco Sunrise Orange, KWZ Orange, Montblanc Ink of Joy, Montblanc Gandhi, Noodler's Operation Overlord Orange, Sailor Apricot. (Note: If you notice the ink dots on the chroma tests, this was an accident after the chroma tests were dry)