Robert Oster Elements Inks
/Today’s inks are from the Robert Oster Elements collection. You can finds these inks for sale at a lot of retailers, including Vanness Pens.
Swabs:
Left to right: Earth, Fire, Water and Wind.
Writing samples:
Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.
Dry Time: 20-40 seconds
Water Resistance: Low
Feathering: None
Show through: Medium
Bleeding: None
Other properties: Earth and Water have medium shading, Fire has low shading, and Wind has high shading. Water has blue shimmer.
On Walmart Pen + Gear copy paper there was some feathering and bleeding in the larger nib sizes.
Comparison Swabs:
Earth is lighter than Birmingham Antique Sepia.
Fire is similar to a lot of other inks.
Water is closest to Nemosine Blue Snowball Nebula Twinkle.
Wind is close to Sailor Ink Studio 243.
Longer Writing:
I used a Taroko Enigma notebook. All four had slightly dry flows.
Overall, these are lovely inks. I do wish the flow was a bit wetter, but they are lovely to use in wetter nibs.
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