(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Twitter. And check out her latest book, Out of Water, now available where books are sold!)
If you follow Brad's Twitch streams, you'll know Scribo Ink as the ink that goes "thunk." It's a generous 90 ml blown-glass ink bottle in a lovely, creative design that stacks, if you collect a few of them. And once you've tried one, you'll want a few of them.
This is my first Scribo ink, but it won't be my last. This Grigio color lives somewhere at the intersection of grey, teal, and blue, and now so do I. It immediately ranks as a favorite on color alone, but it's also a very well-behaved ink.
The ink is wet and flows nicely, but has a very reasonable dry time of around 20 seconds on Rhodia paper. It shows shading beautifully, and even has a very slight sheen if you get a nice pool of it. It has almost no water resistance, and even the spot where I very carefully dabbed at the water drop is totally washed away, though the ink sat for two days between writing and water test. There's no feathering or bleeding.
Chromatography shows a complex formula for this enchanting color. There's a charcoal tone, with a soft slate blue, and a rose color that insists on photographing as brown, though it's very definitely pink-ish. The rose is a total surprise, making this one of the more delightful inks I've tested. When writing, it's dark enough to be an everyday ink, but it has enough variation in shade that it's more fun that a typical blue-black (sorry, Brad).
Beautiful, clever bottle, check. Gorgeous, complex color, check. Well-behaved writing, check. This ink wins at everything and I totally love it. The huge bottle sells for $39 at Vanness Pens. It's an expensive ink, but not unreasonably so, considering how much you get. Plus, the heavy bottle will help keep your papers from blowing away in a hurricane.
(Vanness Pens provided this product at no charge to The Pen Addict for review purposes.)
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