Diamine Inkvent 2023: Day 8 — Jacaranda
*Please note that the scan is the accurate representation of this color.
Day 8!
Welcome back! Today, we have Jacaranda.
The Color and Properties
Jacaranda is a standard ink. The color is a pastel purple. For such a seemingly light color, it’s surprisingly vibrant to the naked eye. It doesn’t offer any sheen, but the shading tones are excellent. I wouldn’t go as far as to call it a multi-shading ink, but it comes quite close. Instead of hard, crisp shading, it has a softer, cloudy effect, that provides a lot of subtle variation in its tones. The more I look at it, the more I notice hints of pink. I think it’s a great color and an excellent representation of the flowering plant from which the name is derived.
Ink splat
Ink droplets
Performance | Cleaning
Rhodia
Leuchtturm
Jacaranda’s performance was great. I had expectations that it would be a somewhat dry writer, but it wasn’t. It had a medium flow and adequate lubrication for an enjoyable writing experience. I didn’t experience any hard starts or skips while writing, and it didn’t feather or bleed through either of the papers.
Cleaning the ink out was simple as well. The water ran clear after a single flush with a bulb syringe, and there wasn’t any lingering color in the pen or nib units.
Writing Samples
My personal thoughts…
Yes! Another instant buy for me. I love this ink. It’s an excellent and complex color and, as mentioned, one that I’ll definitely be buying as soon as it’s available. One could argue that it doesn’t make a lot of sense as an Inkvent color — it looks like more of a spring/summer purple than a festive winter purple. But in the southern hemisphere (specifically Australia), where the holidays are in the middle of summer, the jacaranda seems to be associated with Christmas, which falls a bit after peak blooming season. I think it’s a creative and fun addition to the Inkvent lineup. Well done, Diamine.
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
Scan of the writing sample