Category: Leuchtturm1917

  • Vinta Sea Kelp (Leyte 1944)

    Vinta Sea Kelp (Leyte 1944)

    Vinta Sea Kelp (Leyte 1944) is the full name of the ink. The name refers to the Battle of the Leyte Gulf which was fought in 1944. The ink is an olive green with an average flow. After flushing the insides of the pen with water, I noticed the ink left a ring of colour…

  • Diamine Onyx Black

    Diamine Onyx Black

    Onyx Black is a black ink with a wet flow. This is not a pitch black ink, if you look closely, you will notice a little shading. But for general purposes, this is black enough for me. I noticed this ink takes a while to fully dry. This ink is easy to clean out of…

  • Dominant Industry Winter Wood

    Dominant Industry Winter Wood

    Winter Wood is a brown-black ink with an average flow. At the start of the writing session, the words look almost black due to the amount of ink. As I continued writing and the ink flow stabilised, shades of brown appeared. This ink is easy to clean out of the pen. The writing samples below…

  • Vinta Sunrise (Hanan 1964)

    Vinta Sunrise (Hanan 1964)

    Sunrise (Hanan 1964) is named after Goddess of Morning in Philippine mythology and the year refers to the year Fernando Amorsolo’s painting “The Harvesters” was completed. The ink is a pale yellow colour with a dry flow. The ink is so light that it was hard to read anything I am writing. I only wrote…

  • Krishna Sea At Night on Leuchtturm1917

    Krishna Sea At Night on Leuchtturm1917

    Ink Sea At Night is a high sheening ink from Krishna Inks’ RC Series. The ink itself is dark teal in colour and had a wet flow. The sheen is easy to see on most papers. Given its sheening properties, I wondered if this ink would be hard to clean out of the pen. I…

  • Birmingham Mountain Laurel on Leuchtturm1917

    Birmingham Mountain Laurel on Leuchtturm1917

    Ink Mountain Laurel is a very pale dusky pink when wet and dries to a slightly darker shade. I believed the colour was inspired by the mountain laurel flowers which ranges from white to pink. In wet nibs, you might notice a halo, a dark green thin outline around the strokes. The ink has an…

  • Color Traveler Kure Battleship Yamato Gray on Leuchtturm1917

    Color Traveler Kure Battleship Yamato Gray on Leuchtturm1917

    Ink This ink was named after the Yamato battleship built at Kure, Hiroshima from 1937 to 1940. It was not the first nor the last ship to be built at Kure. The ship itself was seen as the epitome of Imperial Japanese naval engineering but it was not the only one. There were other equally…

  • Van Dieman’s Deciduous Beech on Leuchtturm1917

    Van Dieman’s Deciduous Beech on Leuchtturm1917

    Ink Deciduous Beech is part of the Tassie Seasons collection and this is one of the autumn colours. The ink is a bright orange with an average to wet flow. On Leuchtturn1917 paper, Writing Sample This was written with a TWSBI ECO-T medium nib. Below is how it looks when it was written on both…

  • Kakimori #01 Po on Leuchtturm1917

    Kakimori #01 Po on Leuchtturm1917

    Ink Kakimori is the name of a stationery store in Tokyo. In late 2021, they released a line of pigment inks with names inspired by Japanese onomatopoeia. They are housed in cute round glass bottles meant to evoke the shape of a water droplet on a flat surface. Each ink has a brief writeup that…

  • Color Traveler Seto Inland Sea Blue Black on Leuchtturm1917

    Color Traveler Seto Inland Sea Blue Black on Leuchtturm1917

    Ink This ink was named after the Seto Inland Sea next to Hiroshima Prefecture. From the name, you might have thought that it is a landlocked sea but that’s not the case. It is a body of water separating three of the four main islands of Japan and serves as a waterway connecting the Pacific…