Ink Review: Colorverse 21-22 Schrodinger and Cat

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Colorverse Multiverse Season 3 includes “sets” of inks, with one 65ml bottle of one ink and a 15ml bottle of another ink. This set includes a 65ml bottle of Schrodinger and a 15ml bottle of Cat, a glistening ink. Samples of these sets can be very hard to come by since the bottles are different sizes. I purchased my sample of Schrodinger from Vanness Pens, and my sample of Cat from Ink Journal.

Swabs:

Schrodinger is a medium green and Cat is a medium blue with pink sheen and silver shimmer.

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Schrodinger is a tricky ink. In some light the sheen looks pink, in some it looks black, and if you lay the ink down really heavily, you get a tiny bit of electric blue sheen around the edges. Tricky tricky.

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In ink drops Cat has some dark red sheen with silver shimmer.

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Writing samples:

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

Dry time: 40/50 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: medium shading, high sheen, and no shimmer/silver shimmer. The shimmer is very subtle, not very plentiful.

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was some feathering, and some bleeding in the flex nib.

Comparison Swabs:

Ink swabs for comparison, left to right (top to bottom for mobile RSS): Robert Oster Emerald, Colorverse 21 Schrodinger, and Colorverse 39 Supernatural. Schrodinger has a bit more yellow in it than Emerald does, but not as much as Supernatural. Click here to see the Colorverse inks together, and here to see the green inks together.

Diamine Cobalt Jazz, Colorverse 22 Cat, and Diamine Blue Pearl. I think Blue Pearl is the closest to Cat since it has silver shimmer while Cobalt Jazz has gold shimmer. Click here to see the blue inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a broad Conklin Durograph Forest Green and a medium Lamy Safari Petrol on an ivory Hippo Noto Notebook. The inks had an average flow.

I used a broad Conklin Durograph Forest Green and a medium Lamy Safari Petrol on an ivory Hippo Noto Notebook. The inks had an average flow.

Overall, I dislike that you can’t get the colors individually. Both inks are pretty well behaved, I love that Schrodinger has interesting sheen, but I wish the different sheen colors were visible in more than just the large swabs. In writing the sheen just looks black.

Disclaimer: I purchased these inks myself, and all photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.