Ink Review #2736: Robert Oster Bless Your Heart

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The color:

Bless Your Heart is a red-violet.

*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 it has some shading and 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: 30 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: medium shading, no sheen, and violet, black and silver shimmer.

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

Comparison Swabs:

Bless Your Heart is a little more red than Diamine Frosted Orchid. Click here to see the purple inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Pilot Ishime Magenta with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has an average flow.

Overall, I really love this color. I would use this ink with or without the shimmer because I love the color so much. It’s a great color for the fall and winter seasons and is well behaved. A full bottle is on my wish list!

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