Ink Review #2903: Caran d'ache Delicate Green

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Today’s ink is Caran d’Ache Delicate Green from the Chromatics collection. This ink is getting harder to find, but you can still find it in stock at a few retailers including JetPens.

The color:

Delicate Green is a bright lime 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 has some 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: 30 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

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

Comparison Swabs:

Delicate Green is similar to Robert Oster Light Green. Click here to see the green inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Kaweco Al-sport Red with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has a dry flow-I had to prime the feed a few times to write out an entire A5 page.

Overall, I like the color of this ink but in everyday use I did not enjoy it. It’s just too dry for me. I had trouble with skipping and choked flow every time I wrote more than a paragraph or two. At $37 per bottle it’s just not worth it to me.

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