The above photo was taken in direct sunlight. Ink is swatched on Clairefontaine 90gsm paper, using a glass dip pen. Specs Name: Wonderland Maker: Diamine Color Family: Yellow Properties: Shading Gifted to me by my lovely friend Greg What’s in a name? This was part of the Diamine 2021 InkVent collection, but I couldn’t find any reasoning behind the name. Possibly it’s a nod to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, though why that name would be connected to an orange ink, I don’t know. Or perhaps, since this is a regular wintertime ink release, it’s a reference to the song Walking […]

Diamine calls this a yellow ink, so that’s what we’re sticking with, but in truth it’s got a Dijon mustard gold undertone so you could also argue that it’s a brown ink.

The above photo was taken in direct sunlight. Ink is swatched on Clairefontaine 90gsm paper, using a glass dip pen. Specs Name: Candlelight Maker: Diamine Color Family: Yellow Properties: Shading Gifted to me by my lovely enabler friend, Greg (who got me into fountain pens in the first place!) What’s in a name? Part of Diamine’s 2021 InkVent collection, this ink is meant to evoke flickering candlelight on a long winter’s night. Swatches A large swatch of ink showcases the darkest this ink gets, as well as the maximum properties it has (when held at the right angle to show any […]