Ink Review #1628: Van Dieman's Blackened Seas

Van Dieman’s Blackened Seas is from the Midnight series and comes in 30ml bottles. You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

The color:

Blackened Seas is right in-between blue and blue black.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink has 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: Low

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was feathering in all nib sizes but only a few dots of bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Blackened Seas is lighter than Rohrer & Klingner Verdigris. Click here to see the Van Dieman’s inks together, and click here to see the blue black inks together.

Longer writing:

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

Overall, this ink is generally well-behaved, but there’s nothing about it that jumps out at me. I could go either way on this one, fine but not great.

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