Ink Review #2548: Journalize Elphaba

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Journalize Elphaba is from the Whimsical collection. You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

The color:

Elphaba is a medium purple that shades toward blue.

*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 lots of green shimmer.

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: 40 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: low shading, no sheen, and green shimmer.

On 20 lb copy paper the ink had some feathering in the larger nib sizes.

Comparison Swabs:

Elphaba is closest to Dream Inks Mermaid. Click here to see the purple inks together.

Longer Writing:

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

Overall, the color is interesting and I actually like the purple and green shimmer combo, but the shimmer smears everywhere, so it’s not the ink for me.

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