Ink Review #2904: 3 Oysters Hwangto

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Today’s ink is 3 Oysters Hwangto from the I.COLOR.U collection. You can find this ink at most retailers including Vanness Pens.

The color:

Hwangto is an unsaturated burned orange.

*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 has some interesting shading.

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: 40 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: medium shading, low orange sheen, and no shimmer. It’s odd to have sheen the same color as the base ink, but this ink has an orange base and darker orange (almost brown) sheen.

On 20 lb copy paper the ink had feathering in all nib sizes and just a few dots of bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Hwangto is closest to Wearingeul Kyonghui. Click here to see the orange inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Pelikan M600 Vibrant Orange with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has a dry flow.

Overall, in most nibs I found this ink to be way too dry, but in a wet Pelikan nib it worked well. It also has some interesting sheen!

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