Ink Review #2672: Diamine Marley

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It’s Day 8 of the Diamine Inkvent 2024 Calendar! You can still find the Inkvent Calendar for sale at Cult Pens, along with many others. Thanks to Diamine for sending the Inkvent Calendar over for review! After seeing other’s samples of Marley, I noticed they look very different from mine, so I don’t know why mine is so different. Others’ samples look grey and mine is definitely purple.

The color:

Marley is an unsaturated grape purple.

*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 it has some nice shading.

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: 30 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

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

Comparison Swabs:

Marley isn’t similar to any of these, but it’s closest to Diamine Vivaldi. Click here to see the purple inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Kaweco Al-sport Violet, with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has a slightly dry flow.

Overall, this ink is an interesting color and has some nice shading, but it’s too dry for me.

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