Ink Review: Diamine Sunset.

August 25, 2016

My latest ink sample from Diamine is Diamine Sunset

This ink is a bright reddish orange shade that fits it's name really well. It's well saturated, and exhibited plenty of shading in my writing tests.

It wrote straight away without any hard starts or skipping with both of my pens on several different papers. The flow is very good and so is it's lubrication at the nib. it didn't feel particularly wet or dry. The dry time was reasonably quick on the papers I used it on, and there were no smears after it was dry.

I didn't have many inks that were a similar colour to compare it against. The ones I have are either more orange or more yellow.

This isn't sold as a waterproof ink, and it shows no noticeable water resistance.
I used a Lamy M nib and a Lamy 1.1mm nib and this ink took 15-16 secs to dry on my Rhodia Dot Pad 80gsm paper. No smear when dry.
It exhibited good flow and lubrication and I found it well behaved to write with. I saw no skips or hard starts while I did my swabs and dry time tests.
It exhibited some show through on cheap copy paper.
Diamine sell it directly to end-users on their web-site.
It is currently available in 80ml glass bottles or 30ml plastic bottles
It's a reasonable price.