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So, finally my first ink review... The lucky ink that I have the chance to review is : KRISHNA SEA AT NIGHT (RC SERIES) Before we get down into it, as a foreword, I received this ink as a sample kindly from Pen World India (shout out to them) and in turn I would do a review on the ink. It's a win-win I guess since I believe the Sea at Night is a beautiful colored ink that seems to be getting few attention here. BACKGROUND As a little bit of a background, Krishna Inks are inks made from India, particularly by a gentleman by the name of Dr. Sreekumar. He is as quoted from the Krishna Ink web "professional at day and connoiseur by night" , now that is one hell of a description and I totally like it. Now don't misunderstand the "connoiseur by night" to other meanings . Onto the ink, the Sea at Night is one of the ink in the RC series which specializes in the sheening / shading characters of a fountain pen ink. Quite well known inks in this series is the Jungle Volcano (will do a review later), Anokhi , Goldfish etc. The ink comes in 20 mL bottles for the price of around 8-9 USD (excluding shipping and tax). You can order the Krishna Ink and particularly this one from the official website : http://krishnainks.com/ TESTING & IMPRESSIONS To be totally honest, I did not know what color this ink is initially since there are no reviews at the time I requested a sample of this ink (Pen Chalet has one review but I don't think there are other ones). From the swab sent from Pen World I thought this was a black with a heavy red sheen which is unique in itself. Upon testing the inks however, I was totally wrong and surprised at the same time. This is actually a Teal color, and a very dark one at that. The tools I've used for the testing is as below: Pen: Faber Castell Loom - Fine, Steel nib Paper; Muji A5 (over 55% recycled paper) Maruman Mnemosyne 195 Kinbor A5 Lined (not in the scans) Below are some points I concluded from my testing: Shade : Teal with heavier green toneFlow : GoodLubrication : GoodDry Out : No dry out up until 1 minute observationNo hard startsQuite saturatedMinimal water resistanceDry time (with the tools tested ) : Around 30 - 40 secondsNo major issues with the ink character, there is a little bit of smudging experienced in the testingHard to see from my scans but managed to observe limited red sheen in the ink Maruman Mnemosyne 195 Muji A5 Grid (over 55% recycled paper) Comparison with Diamine Sherwood Green - Platinum Century 3776 Bourgougne Red (Fine, 14K gold nib) CONCLUSION All in all, I have very little negative aspect and many positive aspect to say about this ink. It flows well, no issue of drying out (in 1 minute time span of uncapping the pen) , no bad ink characteristic observed. The shading for me is quite unique, I know that teal is like the trending color recently and the market is starting to get saturated (pun intended) with the color but the Sea at Night has a darker teal tone of color. It also has sheening characteristic (which may become more apparent in a broader nib) that separates the ink to other teal inks. The bad aspect I would say probably is the relatively long dry time of this ink and there is a sign of smudging. All in all, this is a good ink and good shade of teal (IMO) and I recommend it for you guys/gals looking for a dark teal ink with a little bit of flair.