Today is the fourteenth and final Monteverde ink, and this one may be the boldest of them all. Tanzanite is nicely saturated and solid with little to no shading. Just an all around great color.

Quite nice shading in this brown. Not sure what makes brown “scotch”, but I was prompted by my blogging platform with the question: if you had to wear one outfit over and over, what would it be. The answer is either a kilt or a toga, because pants are dumb. You?

For green, this is pretty green-black. Which. I. Love. It does beg the kind of question Wittgenstein might ask about the “blueness of blue”. When someone says “green” to a roomful of people, could each be picturing a different color. Each person’s “Now THAT’S Green!” will be different. I wonder if ink companies are taking…

Sepia seems like a color that automatically makes one nostalgic. If that’s the metric, then this ink succeeds brilliantly. Average saturation (wouldn’t really want it to be any more saturated or it would be too intense for an old-times feel) and mild shading.

This is an amazingly fun, cool blue with terrific shading. Almost an “icy linen” look (whatever that means… speaking of which: do you ever find yourself laughing at descriptions of wine like I do? I’ve actually read “aftertaste of wallpaper paste” as a compliment, so if that’s a thing, surely icy linen can be, too!

I’m back! If everything goes according to schedule, you should see three posts a day until we’ve caught up with the blog posts (in the actual writing world, we just arrived at the end of “all the brands I own bottles of that aren’t Diamine” two days ago, and every single ink for the rest…

Yet another stunner from Monteverde. They boast a patented ink technology that is supposed to improve flow and ink behavior and wear and tear on pens. I would say it does as advertised. Some might feel these inks are too wet on some papers.

Just the bright-yet-powder-blue shade I think of when I think “power tie” (and for some reason I associate them with Barack Obama). But it’s also the logo for the ink itself, so, here it is:

It’s not brown and it’s not orange, so this bold ink slots right in between. Nice stuff continues from Monteverde.