Ink Review #1519: Taccia Classic Blue Jeans

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Taccia Classic Blue Jeans is from the Jeans collection. It is available in 40ml glass bottles. You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

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The Color:

Classic Blue Jeans is a light denim blue.

Swabs:

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In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink looks darker with some shading and sheen.

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Writing samples:

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

Dry time: 40 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

On Walmart 20lb copy paper there was quite a bit of feathering and bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

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Classic Blue Jeans is less saturated than Sailor Ink Studio 442. Click here to see the Taccia inks together and click here to see the blue inks together.

Longer writing:

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I used a Kaweco Al-sport Gold with a fine nib on a Taroko Breeze notebook. The ink had an average flow.

Overall, this is a lovely ink, and still readable in a fine nib!

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