Review by Jessica Coles Ah, purple inks. If I had to choose only one color of ink to use for the rest of my life, it would be purple. I love that purple spans from nearly pink or red all the way to dark blurples. I love how purple inks have experienced a renaissance lately…
By Jessica Coles Sailor Studio inks. 100 inks that have amazing characteristics including heavy sheening inks, pastel colors, even inks that seem to be several colors and no specific color at the same time. Today, we are looking at Sailor Studio 162. According to the numbering scheme used by Sailor, we can tell that this…
Review by Laura Cameron I recently went on a bit of an ink buying spree. Rather than grab the newest, hottest colors, I went back and added a few inks I missed along the way. The first of those is Diamine 150th Blue Velvet (40mL for $16.00). Blue Velvet is a beautifully rich cornflower blue.…
By Jessica Coles I fell in love with Sailor Studio 273 as soon as I saw a photo of the ink on two different types of paper – the ink looked like an entirely different color when only the paper was changed. This is another ink that I have placed in my “Inks that have really…
Review by Laura Cameron I wasn’t able to attend this year’s LA Pen Show, but my favorite pen show attendee brought me back a bottle of the special show ink, Monteverde’s Coral. It turns out that Monteverde’s version of Coral is a very orange ink, leaning slightly red. When I compared it to other ink…
By Jessica Coles I love purple inks. Dark purple, light purple, purples that lean red and purples that lean blue. All purple inks find a home with me. I think I seek out purple inks because, as a child, there were NO purple inks. My rainbow of ink color was restricted to those in a…
By Jessica Coles Lately, Sailor has been flooding the ink scene with new ink choices. This has been quite a delight to ink collectors although it is also a curse to completionist collectors who just need to have each color. Sailor Studio inks are available in a standard line of 100 separate inks. Although each…
