Tono & Lims Adult Night SE Inks

We have a few more days of Tono & Lims ink reviews before we move onto something new. Today we are taking a crack at the Adult Night Special Edition inks: Coffee: Brazilian Chocolate, Kola Nuts and Dynamite. Thanks to Shigure Inks for sending samples over for review! Coffee is supposed to smell like roasted coffee. I don’t like the smell of coffee so I don’t know how accurate the smell is. Kola Nuts is designed to smell like Coke.

Swabs:

Left to right: Coffee: Brazilian Chocolate, Kola Nuts and Dynamite.

Writing samples:

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

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: Low-Dynamite had a bit of bleeding on Leuchtturm paper.

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

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was lots of feathering in every nib size as well as a little bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Coffee: Brazilian Chocolate is similar to Birmingham Root Beer, Kola Nuts is more saturated than Private Reserve Copper Burst and Birmingham Persian Copper, and Dynamite is in-between J Herbin Bleu des Profondeurs and Robert Oster Great Southern Ocean. Click here to see the Tono & Lims inks together.

I used Pilot Vanishing Points and an A5 Yoseka notebook. All of the inks had weird sticky consistencies. Kola Nuts was the worst consistency-it dried to a shine finish, not quite sheen but a bit greasy looking. All three smeared after drying, but again Kola Nuts was the worst.

Overall, I wouldn’t recommend any of these inks. The consistency is a bit off which made for a weird writing experience, and they all are prone to smearing. I’m not a fan.

Disclaimer: These inks were provided by Shigure Inks for the purpose of this review. All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.