Cosmic Black - Caran D'ache Chromatics

[visvamitra]

When I got sick few years ago (virus called pens and inks), I started picking different inks. I was amazed by Caran d'Ache Color of the Earth inks.

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The thing is the inks were discontinued before I had a chance to try all of them. I was disappointed to hear Colors of the earth were replaced by Chromatics.

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OK, the bottle is cool, colors seem nice, so what's the problem?

One - no more Amazon and Grand Canyon! I can get over Amazon, with time I started to prefer murkier greens, but Grand Canyon was in my top 5 of browns.

Two - the price. OK, Chromatics bottles are 50 ml compared to Colors of the Earth 30 ml bottles yet the price per ml increased by 25,7 % (I compare prices in Poland : 55 PLN / 30 ml vs 115 PLN / 50 ml).

Are they really worth it? Well, I like the way Caran d'Ache market their products, I like the bottle and the brand. If I'll be able to try all of these inks, I'll review them here. It will take time though. At the moment I have only sample of Organic Brown and Ultraviolet bottle. Some time ago I've reviewed Infinite grey which was cool.

1. Cosmic Black
   
2. Delicate Green
   
3. Divine Pink
   
4. Electric Orange
   
5. Hypnotic Turquoise
   
6. Idyllic Blue
   
7. Infinite - Grey
   
8. Infra Red
   
9. Magnetic Blue
   
10. Organic Brown
    
11. Ultra Violet
    
12. Vibrant Green
    

Cosmic Black is well behaved black inks. If you use black it should please you. As I don't use black, I'm just OK with ink behaviour and not OK with the color

Ink Splash

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Drops of ink on kitchen towel

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Software ID

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Waterproofness

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Clairefontaine, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

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Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

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Oxford, Hero 5028, stub 1,9

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Edited September 22, 2015 by visvamitra

[Bhavna]

I am not into black inks, but the shading in this is beautiful! My favourite black is Pilot Iroshizuku Take Sumi and I look forward to your review of it.

[lgsoltek]

No, thanks.

[Patrick L]

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/224067-should-black-inks-shade/

[mehandiratta]

good review... but not the ink i will buy... thanks for the detailed demonstration...

[VivienR]

Wonder how this relate to the Color of Earth series Carbon? Which I really LOVE -yes with capital letters-, it even can have some sheen on quality paper.