Ink Review #1522: Taccia Dark Washed Jeans

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

The Color:

Dark Washed Jeans is a deep indigo blue.

Swabs:

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

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, high copper sheen, and no shimmer.

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

Comparison Swabs:

Dark Washed Jeans is darker than Kyo-no-oto 05 Aonibi and lighter than Colorverse Proxima B. Click here to see the Taccia inks together and click here to see the blue inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Pilot Vanishing Point Galaxy with a medium nib on a Taroko Breeze notebook. The ink had an average flow.

Overall, I like this one! It’s a pretty dark blue with some gorgeous shading and sheen. I might get a full bottle of this one, it’s lovely!

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