I’ve been very sick this past month, so I haven’t accomplished all I expected at this point. I’m recovering, finally, and hoping to finish up getting the new inks up on the site soon. Without further delay, here are this month’s palettes!
Creative Palette
- Colorverse – Min Hwa – chung cho
- Colorverse – USA – Country Roads
- Colorverse – Joy in the Ordinary – Walk the Dog
- Noodler’s – American Eel – Cactus Fruit
- Noodler’s – Brevity Black
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For March, we have a some colors for spring: some greens, a diverse brown, a purple/pink, and a soft black.
For the greens, we have chung cho, another Min Hwa ink, and Walk the Dog, another Joy in the Ordinary ink. The Min Hwa inks are quickly becoming some of my favorite inks. They want to dry to a different color than they write, but the color they dry to is so satisfying. Chung cho is a nice, leafy green. And Walk the Dog is a bright, spring green.
In my front yard, the soil is churning with green shoots. What I love about Country Roads is how many different shades of brown it has in it, just like the different patches in my yard.
And spring isn’t complete without, of course, flowers. I was pleasantly surprised by Noodler’s Cactus Fruit ink – it exactly captures the color of a prickly pear cactus fruit.
And for a serious color, we have Brevity Black.
Business Palette
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This month we have a black, a blue-black, and a blue. (Only 3 colors because I have only small subscriptions.)
There are hundreds of black inks out there, so you have plenty of choices for finding your ideal black. This month, we’re sending you Brevity Black from Noodler’s Inks. This isn’t as saturated as some of the other blacks out there, especially Noodler’s blacks, so you may experience it as a very dark gray when writing.
The blue this month is Antifeather Blue by Noodler’s. This blue almost wants to sheen but just avoids it. Antifeather is designed not to feather on low quality paper. It will still feather/wick on newsprint and other loose-fiber papers, but it’s less likely to feather on something like Moleskine or your typical office papers.
And right in the middle, we have a blue/black from Colorverse in their always reliable Office series. Let me know if you’d like to see more blue/black options – there are surprisingly few of them in the ink world!
Deluxe Bundle
Your deluxe bundle this month comes with a hardbacked, magnetic-closure book of Clairefontaine paper and a refillable roller ball (ink ball) from Jacques Herbin.
