Ink Review #2667: Diamine Noble Fir

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It’s Day 3 of the Diamine Inkvent 2024 Calendar! You can still find the Inkvent Calendar for sale at Vanness Pens, along with many others. Thanks to Diamine for sending the Inkvent Calendar over for review!

The color:

Noble Fir is an emerald green with lots of shimmer.

*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 the ink has both blue and silver shimmer, and is labeled as a “Star Bright” ink (I’m not quite sure what that means).

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 silver and blue shimmer.

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

Comparison Swabs:

Noble Fir is closest to Van Dieman’s Emerald Eyes. It’s lighter than Diamine Magical Forest. Click here to see the green inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Pelikan M600 Vibrant Green, with a fine nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has an average flow.

Overall, I love this ink! I love the color, the good flow, the nice shading and the interesting shimmer. It’s not often that I want to buy a full bottle of an Inkvent ink, (especially not a shimmer) usually the small bottles are sufficient for me, but I would actually buy a full bottle of Noble Fir.

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