Diamine Inkvent 2023: Day 21 — Tranquility
Day 21!
Hello again! For day twenty-one of Diamine Inkvent, we have Tranquility.
The color/properties:
Tranquility is a “chameleon” ink. It has shimmering particulates that are supposed to change color depending on the lighting and viewing angle. Like most of the other chameleon inks this year, I can’t say that I saw much of a notable color shift. I mostly observed a silvery-green shimmer that sometimes appeared yellow or golden. The base color is a deep magenta. There’s a lot of warmth to the color, and it shades with a soft cut between its lighter and darker tones where the ink pools.
*Please note that the scan is the accurate representation of this color.
Rhodia
Leuchtturm
How did it perform?
Tranquility’s performance was okay. I didn’t have any clogs or hard starts while testing, but I did find the shimmer distribution to be inconsistent. There would be times when I felt that there wasn’t enough shimmer, and then suddenly too much. It never felt like there was a good balance, and continuously agitating the particulates in the pen didn’t seem to make any difference. The ink otherwise felt fine to write with. There wasn’t any feeling of dryness, and that remained consistent across each of the test nibs. Unfortunately, while the color and particulates mostly cleaned out after a single flush and soak, there was a haze left behind along the inner barrel of the test pen that required disassembly of the pen to clean out.
Ink splat
Ink droplets
My personal thoughts…
I’m not sure if “tranquility” is what comes to mind when I look at this ink, but otherwise, I really like the base color. I wish I could say I felt the same way about the shimmer. It didn’t perform well, and honestly, this is the first ink in the calendar that I wish just didn’t have any particulates. Maybe the barrage of chameleon inks in this year’s calendar has simply become fatiguing, but I don’t see this one finding a place on my “buy” list.
Written in a Leuchtturm1917 notebook
More Images/Info:
Tools and materials used in the writing samples:
A TWSBI Diamond 580 AL with 3 nib units including a Fine, Medium, and Broad. All nibs are tuned to perform at the same wetness.
A Rhodia No16 A5 DotPad
A Leuchtturm1917 A5 Notebook
Scan of the writing sample