Today’s ink is Inkebara Caramel from the Standard collection. This ink is available in 60ml bottles. My sample of ink came from Vanness Pens.

*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 quite a bit of shading.

Writing samples:

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

*For my writing samples I use:

Dry time: 40 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

On 20 lb copy paper the ink had some bleeding and feathering in all nib sizes. I don’t use this ink on cheap paper.

Caramel isn’t super close to any of these other options. Click here to see the brown inks together.

I used a Lamy Al-star Bronze with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has a dry flow.

Overall, I love the color and the awesome shading, but the flow is very dry, which is not my preference.

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