Ink Review #1456: Van Dieman's Howl at the Moon

We are over halfway through Yellow Ink Week! Today’s yellow ink is Van Dieman’s Howl at the Moon from Van Dieman’s Midnight collection. You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

The color:

Hastings Caves is a bright acid yellow with silver shimmer.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink has plenty of shimmer.

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: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was some feathering in most nib sizes.

Comparison Swabs:

Howl at the Moon is closest to De Atramentis Amber Yellow Silver. Click here to see the Van Dieman’s inks together, and click here to see the yellow inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Franklin-Christoph 45 in Spanish Moss with a broad nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink had a dry flow.

Overall, in longer writing this ink is too pale for me. It has a dry flow, but I didn’t have any clogging issues with this one.

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