Ink Review #1518: Taccia Light Washed Jeans

Taccia Light 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:

Light Washed Jeans is a pale steel blue.

Swabs:

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

Writing samples:

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

Dry time: 30 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

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

Comparison Swabs:

Light Washed Jeans is closest to Sailor Ink Studio 243, but lacks 243’s purple shading. Click here to see the Taccia inks together and click here to see the blue inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Lamy Al-star Pacific Blue with a medium nib on a Taroko Breeze notebook. The ink had an average flow.

Overall, I like this one, but it can be rather light in smaller nib sizes. I like it best in a wet broad nib.

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