This is the Diamine Inkvent 2023 day 23 door:
Day 23’s ink is Diamine Fireside Snug. It’s a standard ink.
Diamine Fireside Snug is a dark orange standard ink with a lot of great shading. It’s one of the few inks in the Inkvent calendar that would make for a great everyday ink. The dark dot on my swab is due to an ink drop on the Col-O-Ring card that I didn’t notice before swabbing the ink.
The base ink colour is a reddish orange that is dark enough to be readable even with a fine nibbed pen, and the shading it provides is pretty spectacular. I have very few orange inks in my ink collection, and this one is definitely one that I would add to it.
You can see the ink shading in this sketch of Mud Pie the teddy bear. He always appears a bit “squashed” and that’s part of his charm.
The original bear (purchased at Stonegate Teddy Bears in York):
There’s only a handful of standard inks in this year’s Inkvent and they’ve all been solid inks, but Jacaranda and Fireside Snug have been a cut above (I’ve decided that it’s completely unfair to call Diamine Weeping Willow a standard ink, and so I’m putting in into a separate category). If you’re looking for an alternative to Noodler’s Habanero, this is it.
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