Diamine Inkvent 2024: Day 3 — Noble Fir
Day 3!
Welcome to Inkvent Day 3! Today, we have Noble Fir.
The color/properties:
Diamine Noble Fir is a Star-Bright ink. It has highly concentrated and reflective particulates that make it shine brightly against the light. The base color is a bright, fresh, and festive green with a hint of blue undertone. It shades softly with a soft gradient between its light and dark tones where the ink pools especially when writing in cursive. The particulates contrast the base color well and give it a wonderful wintry, frosty character.
*Please note that the scan is the accurate representation of this color.
How did it perform?
Noble Fir has a medium flow, and it was an initially comfortable writing experience, but the flow did slow down while working on the writing sample. Despite that, I didn’t have any clogs, hard starts, or stops while working with this ink, and that’s excellent news because there is a ton of shimmer in this ink, and it’s consistent. I didn’t have to do much in the way of agitating the pen for this to keep flowing.
With an ink like this, you might expect cleaning to be a hassle, and you’d be right. After washing the ink out (which did wash out easily enough, at least), there was a ring of bright shimmer left over in the pen. It wasn’t nearly as much left over as I expected, but it still required me to remove the piston assembly of the pen to get at it with a cotton swab.
Ink splat
Ink droplets
My personal thoughts…
Oh wow! Here it is already! I wasn’t expecting to get a Star-Bright so soon (if at all), but I opened this door and immediately shouted “Yessss!” when I read the Star-Bright label. I’ve been curious to see more colors with this kind of shimmer since trying last year’s Glacier, and a green like this seemed perfect. My excitement was swiftly countered by our grumpy Oregonian, Sarah, who was bold enough to claim that this color is far too bright to have anything to do with a Noble Fir tree, and… She’s not wrong. It’s too bright. However, I don’t think that diminishes this ink, it’s still lovely, and I still think it makes for an excellent Inkvent ink, and an awesome second Star-Bright ink.
[Note from the editor: As a life-long resident of the Pacific Northwestern United States, I’m deeply offended by the slanderous inaccuracy of this outlandishly bright ink color, which couldn’t be more unlike the stunning magnificence of my favorite variety of Christmas tree. 😤 I’m kidding…mostly. 😜]
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