Ink Review #2733: Taccia Sketch Ink Earth Green

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Today’s ink is Taccia Sketch Ink Earth Green. You can find this ink for sale at some retailers including Vanness Pens.

The color:

Earth Green is a medium olive green.

*For my swab cards I use a Col-o-ring by Skylab Letterpress, a medium Pilot Ishime and a Mabie Todd Swan.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink looks much darker than it does on the Col-o-ring swab.

Writing samples:

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

*For my writing samples I use:

Dry time: 30 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: There’s some bleeding in the flex nib and swab on Rhodia, but I think that’s due to a flaw in the paper rather than the ink. I’ve had this happen with most inks on this most recent batch of paper.

Other properties: low shading, low red sheen, and no shimmer.

On 20 lb copy paper the ink had some feathering and bleeding in all nib sizes.

Comparison Swabs:

Earth Green has the same tone as Taccia Uguisu Olive Green, but it is much darker. Click here to see the green inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a TWSBI Eco Transparent Green with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has an average flow.

Overall, since this is a Sketch Ink and designed to be used as an art ink, I expected a lot more water resistance than I experienced. I was hoping for high water resistance and only got medium. For me this doesn’t really work as a waterproof art ink, but it’s a nice color.

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