Ink Review #2736: Robert Oster Bless Your Heart
/Robert Oster Bless Your Heart is a Vanness Pens exclusive. Let’s take a look!
The color:
Bless Your Heart is a red-violet.
*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 it has some shading and shimmer.
Writing samples:
Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.
*For my writing samples I use:
Vintage Mabie Todd Swan (flex nib)
Taroko Enigma notebooks (68gsm TR)
Dry time: 30 seconds
Water resistance: Low
Feathering: None
Show through: Medium
Bleeding: None
Other properties: medium shading, no sheen, and violet, black and silver shimmer.
On 20 lb copy paper the ink had feathering in all nib sizes and some bleeding.
Comparison Swabs:
Bless Your Heart is a little more red than Diamine Frosted Orchid. Click here to see the purple inks together.
Longer Writing:
I used a Pilot Ishime Magenta with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has an average flow.
Overall, I really love this color. I would use this ink with or without the shimmer because I love the color so much. It’s a great color for the fall and winter seasons and is well behaved. A full bottle is on my wish list!
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