Anderillium Luna Moth Green
Ink Review #6
*Please note that the scan is the accurate representation of this color.
Overview
The color/properties:
Luna Moth Green is a soft pastel green that shades crisply between a pale and more vibrant minty green, and dark edges around shaded areas when writing in both cursive and print. Especially with larger and wetter nibs, you may notice some hints of yellow and brown, and even more rarely (very rarely) you may notice some subtle pink notes.
Ink splat
Ink droplets
Performance on paper:
Luna Moth Green has great performance on paper. I didn’t run into any issues with feathering or bleed-through during most of my tests, except for 2 tiny, almost imperceptible spots on the Kokuyo sheet. There’s some slight feathering around the ink droplets and ink splat, and it the ink may push certain papers to the limit when used with very wet pens, but otherwise this should be fine on most fountain pen-friendly papers.
The dry times were just a hair above average: the needlepoint through the medium nibs all dried faster than usual, but the other nibs generally experienced normal dry times of around 15-20 seconds, if not leaning towards the lower end of the scale on most papers.
There’s some water resistance, but it’s not great. A lot of the ink washed away, but there was some retention, especially where the ink laid down heavier. Your results may vary widely though, and I wouldn’t expect much out of it in terms of water resistance.
Water resistance
Chromatography
Performance in the pen:
Luna Moth Green had a consistent medium-dry flow across all the test nibs. The nibs felt nicely lubricated, with a notable silkiness to it that made the writing experience quite pleasant. It’s not slick, but it’s nice, especially for an ink with a drier flow. I didn’t run into any hard starts, skips, or stops during the tests.
The ink was very easy to clean, washing out of the pen quickly in the first flush and leaving no noticeable stains or residue in the barrel of the pen or nib units.
Written on 52 gsm Tomoe River paper (white, 6mm ruling) with a medium nib.
Written on Midori MD paper (cream, 7mm ruling) with a 1.9mm music nib.
Written on Midori MD paper (cream, 7mm ruling) with a medium nib.
Performance in a pen: 10/10
Performance on paper: 9/10
Color saturation: 4/10
Sheening: 0/10
Shading: 6.5/10
Dry time: 8.5/10
Water resistance: 2/10
Ease of cleaning: 10/10
Shimmer: None
My personal thoughts...
I was excited to write with this ink when I first opened the bottle, and I still am now. This is a great color that I think would be excellent for spring and summer. The green is pale and soft, but also vibrant enough to provide this ink with a near ethereal appearance that’s eye-catching in real life. It even carries subtle hints of brown and pink. Anderillium did an excellent job capturing the color of a luna moth (and for Souls players, a certain large butterfly).
Written in a 52 gsm Tomoe River Notebook with a Franklin-Christoph Model 03 (medium nib).
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Other inks in the Lepidopteran Series:
Tools and materials used in the writing samples:
A TWSBI Diamond 580 AL with 7 nib units including a Needlepoint grind, EF, F, M, B, 1.1mm stub, and an Architect grind. All nibs are tuned to perform at the same medium wetness.
A Rhodia No16 A5 DotPad
A Leuchtturm1917 A5 Notebook
A Midori MD A5 Notebook
A 68gsm A5 Tomoe River Notebook
A Maruman Mnemosyne A5 Spiral Notebook
A Kokuyo Campus A5 Notebook