Just a quick update: I was up early and packed and on the road to go to NYC for a long awaited family vacation…. only to arrive at the airport and have Southwest cancel our flight one hour beforehand and tell us there were no openings on any other flights, direct or indirect, for the next three days. Oh well! I didn’t have any fresh review content prepared, but I CAN show you all what I was playing around with last night as I was getting ready for some time off.
Shading Inks from Pennonia, Courtesy of Vanness Pens
I’m not typically a crazy ink enthusiast, but after spending a fun weekend at the Chicago Pen Show experimenting with all sorts of flexible nibs and shading inks, I decided to break into my ink sample stash and play around with several inks from Pennonia that I’ve been admiring online. Pennonia is a Romanian/Hugarian ink company that hand-mixes an enormous line of fountain pen inks, ranging from vibrant blues to more subdued super shaders and double-shaders. You can even purchase shimmer powder in various colors to customize your inks! I’ve been testing out four different Pennonia inks in a wide variety of pens, ranging from standard broad and stub nibs to Pilot Parallels to folded and flex calligraphy nibs. These inks have all behaved wonderfully, even if the specific colors work best for different types of writing.
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