Ink Review #1306: Robert Oster Santa's Hangover

Robert Oster Santa’s Hangover is from the new Holiday 2020 collection. I purchased my bottle of ink at Pen Chalet (aff. link).

The color:

Santa’s Hangover is a slightly unsaturated medium red.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink looks less saturated than it does on the previous swab.

Writing samples:

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

Dry time: 20 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was some feathering in all nib sizes.

Comparison Swabs:

Santa’s Hangover is closest to Diamine Ruby. Click here to see the Robert Oster inks together, and click here to see the red inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Pilot Vanishing Point Crimson Sunrise with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink had a dry flow.

Overall, this is a perfect color for the winter season, but like the other inks in the Holiday 2020 collection it is a bit too dry for me.

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