#ink swatching

Another post that has been sitting in my drafts for way too long. Maybe weird timing to post inks from an advent calendar in September (but hey, that's when German supermarkets have already started selling ginger bread and other Christmas stuff :D) The 2021 Inkvent Calendar was definitely my favorite one. I also had the Calendar from 2023 but it had way too many shimmer inks for my taste and I didn't even buy last year's one because it had sooo many shimmer inks again.

Spent 2 weeks in Japan and picked up 9 bottles of inks (among a bunch of pens and other stationery things uwu)

having a nice evening swatching my new inks with my new glass dip pen

i couldn’t get the purple to show up right on camera

Russet Typecase ink swatching. Coming to The Everyday Collection at Ferris Wheel Press on Aug 2nd. A warm, sepia brown. Would go great with vintage ephemera.

Swatching my inks on Iroful paper and Tomoe River paper for comparison

I don't think anything can beat the way TR shows sheening haha, some of the sheening inks are like 99% sheen and 1% actual colour 😂

It's also interesting that some swatches look more cool-toned on the Iroful paper; Sailor Yurameku Kyokkou, Sailor Yurameku Hana-gokoro, Ink Institute Mexican Hens, and Sailor Yurameku Kitsune-biyori

Finally decided to label my inks so I can tell which bottle is what when I look at them from the top 😤

Tools Used:

Tomoe River paper

glass rod

Pilot Kakuno, EF Sailor Hocoro, F + M