Ink Review #1483: Van Dieman's Spotted Sun Orchid

Van Dieman’s Spotted Sun Orchid is from the Wilderness series and comes in 30ml bottles. You can find this ink for sale at Pen Chalet (aff. link) or Vanness Pens.

The color:

Spotted Sun Orchid is a medium purple haze.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink looks moody and interesting.

Writing samples:

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

Dry time: 60 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:

Spotted Sun Orchid is closest to Robert Oster Purple Jazz. Click here to see the Van Dieman’s inks together, and click here to see the purple inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Lamy Safari Violet with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink had an average flow.

Overall, I love the color of this ink and it’s generally well behaved, they only thing I don’t love is the dry time. 60 seconds is a rather long dry time but other than that it’s a good ink.

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