Diamine Inkvent 2024: Day 22 — Nutmeg
*Please note that the scan is the accurate representation of this color.
Day 22!
Hello! It’s the 22nd day of Inkvent, and today’s ink is Nutmeg.
The Color and Properties
Nutmeg is a shimmering ink. It contains golden particulates over an earthy grey-brown base color that shades noticeably darker, with a crisp cut between the two tones where the ink pools in both print and cursive.
Ink splat
Ink droplets
Performance | Cleaning
Rhodia
Leuchtturm
Nutmeg has a medium flow and is lubricated well enough to be comfortable; it’s not overly slick but it doesn’t feel dry or grainy either. It was well-behaved too: I didn’t experience any hard starts, skips, or stops during my tests, and the shimmer was well-distributed with minimal need for agitation. As a side note, I had to restart the writing sample after I was nearly done, and I can confirm that the flow keeps up with fast and annoyed writing quite well.
When cleaning, the color washed out of the pen quickly, however, there was a remaining ring of shimmer that wouldn’t wash out. It wasn’t a lot, but it still required the disassembly of the pen to remove with a cotton swab.
Writing Samples
My personal thoughts…
Despite the earlier matter testing my patience, I still came out of this one with a lot of positive thoughts, so I want to preface this next part with this: I like this ink. Cool, moving on. Nutmeg Isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the season, but it had me go “Of course!” as soon as I opened the door and read the name. And then I thought about it some more. It’s a great ink, sure, and I know nutmeg is a spice often used in many festive and wintry dishes and desserts, but I don’t know. A lot like day 20’s Potpourri, this feels peripheral at best. Otherwise, I can’t say anything bad about it.
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