Day 17’s ink is Diamine Gala a lavender purple standard ink with some shading. It’s on the lighter side of inks, so you’ll probably want to use it in a more substantial nib than the EF TWSBI nib that I used to test it with.

I just received an order of some TWSBI ECOs in the cool new colours they’ve started to issue, so I took the opportunity to use my new TWSBI ECO onyx and plum fountain pen to test out Diamine Gala.

So you can see today’s ink bottle, today’s pen and the mess that swabbing inks has made of my Rhodia dot pad. I may do something with this wreck of a page before I toss it out.

I like Diamine Gala. There have been other inks like it in previous inkvents, but there’s something calming and nice about this ink colour, and I appreciate the fact that it’s a standard ink.

Today’s bear isn’t a collector’s bear, it’s just a bear that I felt like adding to the collection. I bought him on a whim in a small toy store in Paris, years and years ago.

While I don’t see myself needing a full bottle of Diamine Gala, I do like the colour enough to enjoy writing with it even though it’s on the light side (I sound like a Sith Lord now, I know). I’m wondering why the name was chosen though. Perhaps the colour evoked a gala dress colour in someone’s mind?