Ink Review #1887: Van Dieman's Pepperberry

Van Dieman’s Autumn Pepperberry is from the Tassie Seasons collection. You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

The color:

Pepperberry is a medium blue black.

*For my swab cards I use a Col-o-ring by Skylab Letterpress, a medium Pilot Ishime and a Mabie Todd Swan.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink looks much darker.

Writing samples:

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

*For my writing samples I use:

• EF Pilot Vanishing Point

• F, M, B Pilot Ishime

• Vintage Mabie Todd Swan (flex nib)

• Rhodia Goalbook

• Taroko Enigma notebooks (68gsm TR)

• Leuchtturm A5

• Pen & Gear Paper from Walmart

Dry time: 20 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: Low

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: Low

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

On 20 lb copy paper the ink was about average, some feathering but no bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Pepperberry is right in-between Bungubox 4B and Cross Blue Black. Click here to see the blue black inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Franklin-Christoph 46 Blue Diamondcast with a broad nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink had an average flow.

Overall, this is a nice ink, but there is a bit of feathering and bleeding. It’s not so bad that it would keep me from using the ink, plus it has a little bit of shading.

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