Ink Review #2689: Diamine Good Tidings

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The color:

Good Tidings is a deep black with lots of sheen.

*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 you can see some of the green and black sheen.

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:

Dry time: 50 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

On 20 lb copy paper the ink had feathering in all nib sizes and some bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Good Tiding’s base color is closest to Monteverde Black Ash. Click here to see the black inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Pilot Vanishing Point Crossed Lines with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has an average flow.

Overall, I like the concept of this ink, but it’s way too smeary for me. It can be easily smeared hours after drying, so this is not an ink for me.

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