Ink Review #2678: Diamine Mint Twist

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It’s Day 14 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!

The color:

Mint Twist is a pretty minty 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 it has pink and blue shimmer. This ink is advertised as a chameleon ink.

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: 20 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

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

Comparison Swabs:

Mint Twist is greener than Ferris Wheel Press Frontenac Blue, but not quite as true green as Ferris Wheel Press Misguided Mistletoe. Click here to see the green inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Lamy Safari Turquoise with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has an average flow.

Overall, I love the color of this ink! It’s not very often that I want to buy a large bottle of an inkvent ink-usually the small bottles are sufficient for me, but I want a full bottle of this one. I would prefer the ink without the shimmer, but lately shimmer has been growing on me. I’ve been using this pen/ink combo in my journal for a while. I’m a fan of this one.

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