Green Olive - Robert Oster Signature Ink

[visvamitra]

Robert Oster is new player in fountain pen ink market. He operates through ebay shop. The inks are sold in 50 ml PET bottles with a tightly secure twist cap. I don't know who makes the inks for the shop, but the colors look interesting and fresh. At the moment Robert Oster inks are available in colors

1. Aqua
2. Australian Sky Blue
3. Barossa Grape
4. Black
5. Blue Black
6. Blue Denim
7. Blue Night
8. Blue Sea
9. Bondi Blue
10. Burgundy
11. Chocolate
12. Claret
13. Copper Brown
14. Deep Sea
15. Emerald Green
16. Ever Green
17. Fire Engine Red
18. Forest Green
19. Graphite
20. Green Green
21. Green Lime
22. Green Olive
23. Jade
24. Khakhi
25. Light Green
26. Marine
27. Moss
28. Orange
29. Peach
30. Pinky
31. Red Orange
32. Royal Red
33. Ruby Red
34. School Blue
35. Spearmint
36. Torquay
37. Tranquility
38. Turquoise
39. Yellow Sunset

I received sixteen samples (marked in cursive) from well known ink enabler - Cyber6. Thank you Claudia You rock!

On Robert Oster's shop website Green Olive is described as follows: "This unique shade is so lifelike. Like a Green Olive bathing in a Martini. Flows on light Green, dries on bright Olive." Well I prefer greener olives and I dislike the color. The ink has decent flow and rather good saturation. It's not water resistant.

 

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport - eyedropper, B

Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Classic Sport - eyedropper, B

Oxford

Comparison

Edited June 6, 2016 by visvamitra

[lgsoltek]

I love this colour. It looks really like olives.

It reminds me of Kyonooto Yamabukiiro.

[RedScarves]

Does it actually goes on light green?

[visvamitra]

Not really unless your understanding of green is very broad.

[T4TEXAS]

Thanks for the review. This one's not for me.

[praxim]

I find it interesting, not as a green.

[Cyber6]

I love this colour. It looks really like olives.

It reminds me of Kyonooto Yamabukiiro.

 

+1... Me too... LOVE these kind of hues!!!

 

 

I might have not called it "Green Olive"... Maybe Rustic Gold..

 

 

I do love your reviews VIS !!!...

 

 

 

C.

[amberleadavis]

My first thought was that this is a Cyber6 color. I'm surprised to learn that it is not a Vis color - I will get better with my color identifications. Thank you, Vis and Thank you Cyber6 for enabling.

[lgsoltek]

My first thought was that this is a Cyber6 color. I'm surprised to learn that it is not a Vis color - I will get better with my color identifications. Thank you, Vis and Thank you Cyber6 for enabling.

It is an LG colour too!

[amberleadavis]

It is an LG colour too!

 

Good to know.

[praxim]

The first few times I tried this ink I found it pale and unsatisfactory although having the somewhat yellow hue I expected. I was nearing the point of giving it away, possibly to a drain, when I tried putting it into one of my wettest pens, the Onoto 21 with No.15 nib. The result was very satisfying. Now, the colour looked more as it says on the label, a clear green-olive, firm on the page and useable rather than irritatingly pale and wan. It was similar if not so drastic with Yellow Sunset, needing a fairly wet line to bring out its colour, and I wonder whether that Claret might also be improved. I have tried it once in a fairly fine Waterman No.2 nib.

 

Regarding one's pens, I can see why people recommend trying a known, classical, well-behaved ink first. I started with a poor opinion of a couple of my purchases before I fed them inks better suited to them; part of my continuing learning.

[EdeIstein88]

wow nice ink... i think emerald will match my pelikan green stripes well

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review. *Definitely* not a color for me. Also, it's really hard to read....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Manalto]

"School Bus" or "Baby's First Year"

[lgsoltek]

Is this one more yellow than Khaki?

[mehandiratta]

love the color... but for writing i guess will not be used much

[Cyber6]

Is this one more yellow than Khaki?

 

 

If you mean Robert Oster Khaki... check the last two inks in the comparison sheet Vis posted above. Like night and day.

 

 

 

C.

[lgsoltek]

 

 

If you mean Robert Oster Khaki... check the last two inks in the comparison sheet Vis posted above. Like night and day.

 

 

 

C.

 

Oops, thanks, I didn't notice there's a comparison.

 

I think I'm getting both.

[Cyber6]

 

Oops, thanks, I didn't notice there's a comparison.

 

I think I'm getting both.

 

 

Wise choice..