Color Traveler Grey Inks

Today let’s take a look at three grey inks from Color Traveler: Yamato Gray, Oyster Silver and Sardines Griege. You can finds these inks for sale at a Vanness Pens.

Swabs:

Left to right: Yamato Gray, Oyster Silver and Sardines Griege.

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 30-50 seconds

Water Resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: All have medium shading.

On Walmart Pen + Gear copy paper there was some feathering in every nib size and a few dots of bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Yamato Gray is closest to 3 Oysters Cool Gray.

Oyster Silver is closest to Pelikan Edelstein Moonstone, Sardines Greige is close to Octopus Fluids Pebble Stone.

Longer Writing:

I used a Taroko Enigma notebook. All three had average flows.

Overall, these are good inks. Yamato Gray is my favorite out of the three but I like all three.

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