Diamine Inkvent 2024: Day 16 — Tundra
Day 16!
Welcome to day sixteen! Today’s ink is Tundra.
The color/properties:
Diamine Tundra is a standard ink. It’s an earthy grey with light brown undertones that shades with a crisp cut between light and dark tones of the ink as well as crisp edges around pooled areas in the writing. You might notice the swatches and splats take on a more purple tonality compared to the writing samples, and that may very well be possible if you can lay this ink down enough with a pen.
*Please note that the scan is the accurate representation of this color.
How did it perform?
Tundra performs well. It has a medium flow, and especially for a lighter ink, it’s lubricated enough to be a comfortable writing experience (but if you prefer a much slicker ink, this isn’t going to be for you). I didn’t run into any hard starts, skips, or stops during my writing.
Cleaning the ink out of the pen was very easy and the ink washed out in a single flush.
Ink splat
Ink droplets
My personal thoughts…
Yay! Another grey! I’m a fan of this one, but I have a small feeling that this ink might be easily overlooked — it’s not all that interesting at a glance, but I appreciate those fine complexities that come out the more you look at it. I love to see a grey ink with such heavy, earthy, brown undertones. I think it does a nice job of giving off a tundra-like atmosphere too. The absence of any kind of shimmer or special properties is welcome and makes it a great well-rounded choice for a winter ink. If it catches your eye, definitely don’t sleep on this one, it’s cool.
Written in a Leuchtturm1917 notebook
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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