Ink Review #1300: Diamine Night Sky

Diamine Night Sky is from the original 2015 Shimmertastic collection. I purchased my sample of ink from Vanness Pens.

The color:

Night Sky is a light black with silver shimmer.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink has plenty of silver shimmer.

Writing samples:

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

Dry time: 20 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was some feathering in most nib sizes.

Comparison Swabs:

Night Sky is closest to Diamine Sparkling Shadows, but it has silver shimmer to Sparkling Shadow’s gold. Click here to see the Diamine inks together, and click here to see the black inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Franklin-Christoph 45 Charcoal & Creme with a broad nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink had an average flow.

Overall, this is a great black shimmer ink, well-behaved and perfect for special occasion writing. It matches the FC Charcoal & Creme pen material so well too!

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