Lennon Tool Bar Tea Color Inks

Lennon Tool Bar’s Tea Color collection includes: Sun Moon Lake Ruby Black Tea, Muzha Tieguanyin Tea and Wenshan Pouchong Tea. Thanks to Shigure Inks for sending samples over for review!

Swabs:

Left to right: Sun Moon Lake Ruby Black Tea, Muzha Tieguanyin Tea and Wenshan Pouchong Tea

Writing samples:

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

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: Medium-there was feathering on Rhodia and Leuchtturm in both medium and flex nibs.

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: Low-there was some bleeding on Leuchtturm.

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

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was lots of feathering in every nib size as well as some bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Sun Moon Lake Ruby Black Tea looks like a much less saturated version of Sailor Ink Studio 973.

Wenshan Pouchong Tea is more green than Tono & Lims Fukushima, but less green than Robert Oster Astorquiza Olive.

Muzha Tieguanyin Tea is a little bit lighter than Tono & Lims Afternoon Tea.

Longer Writing:

I used a Taroko Enigma notebook. All three inks had a wet and watery flow. I did have some flow issues with Muzha, it gushed ink at the beginning.

Overall, Wenshan Pouchong Tea is my favorite of the three, it’s the most well behaved. I don’t love the flow/behavior of the other two-there’s more feathering and bleeding than I like.

Disclaimer: These inks were provided by Shigure Inks for the purpose of this review. All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.