This is the Diamine Inkvent 2024 Day 13 door:

Diamine day 13’s ink is Diamine Lullaby a standard lilac/purplish-pink with a nice amount of shading. I used a Waterman Phileas fountain pen with an extra fine nib to test out this ink.

Diamine Lullaby is a light and unsaturated ink, and so you get a lot of shading even with a very fine nib.

It’s difficult to photograph inks on the purple spectrum but Diamine Lullaby is about halfway between Diamine Memory Lane and Diamine Harmony. It’s pinker than Memory Lane and bluer than Harmony.

You can really see the shading you can get with Lullaby in this original Tomoe River Paper writing sample:

Diamine Lullaby is a readable lilac ink – but only just. It shades nicely, and has a nice and interesting colour variation between pink and light purple. Would I use it as a daily writer? Likely only in a wider nib or if it was a shade darker. As it is there’s something about it that feels a bit washed out. Here’s a writing sample on Rhodia paper:

And here’s today’s bear sketch on Midori MD Cotton paper. You can see how pale Diamine Lullaby is, especially in a true to size extra fine nib like the Waterman Phileas (which is one of my favourite pens to use for sketching).

Here’s today’s bear, Dean’s Rag Book Company Centenary Bear, Truffles:

Diamine Lullaby doesn’t really say “Christmas” to me, and in terms of practicality it scores low because it’s not very readable (even though it is a standard, non saturated ink so I’d feel comfortable using it in a vintage fountain pen). The colour is nice enough and you can’t have all the inks in the calendar fit perfectly with the theme, so I’m fine with Diamine Lullaby being included, though I won’t be buying a bottle of it.

Do you like Diamine Lullaby? Would you name it differently?