Ink Review #1397: PenBBS 140 Bloom

PenBBS 140 Bloom is from PenBBS season 11. You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

The color:

Bloom is a medium coral pink.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink has lots of gold shimmer.

Writing samples:

Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.

Dry time: 20 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: no shading, no sheen, and gold shimmer.

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was some feathering and bleeding in all nib sizes.

Comparison Swabs:

Bloom is very close to Diamine Pink Champagne. Click here to see the PenBBS inks together, and click here to see the pink inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a TWSBI Eco-T Coral with a broad nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink had a dry flow.

Overall, this ink is generally well behaved except the flow is a little dry. It’s not any better than Diamine Pink Champagne, and they are very similar so you probably don’t need both.

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