on saleDiamine Evergreen - Ink Sample

Love it so much. I will be buying a bottle soon!

The ink works very nicely on the paper I use (pretty cheap stuff). I hoped it would be greener, but my hand writing with a fine nib looks nearly black. Upside: probably work appropriate!

I like green inks, and I use dark greens because my work environment is quite conservative and I could not get away with a lighter, brighter green. This one is a good option, dark enough to pass in my professionnal environment, but still green enought that it looks green and not black. I use it mostly in fine nibs (my favourite types of nibs)This one, and Dark Forest from the same brand, are too green inks that I use daily. Evergreen is more one the olive side, and Dark Forest is more on the teal side, but both are solid dark greens that look good on any paper.

Disclaimer: I have tried this ink only on my custom ground Platinum Preppy (Naginata Togi style grinding), the nib of which has almost no flexibility. So I really don't know how this ink behaves when using springier nibs. The color is dark green, reminiscent of loquat tree leaves in my hometown, and I guess this is why it's named evergreen. It looks kinda bluish in the vial, but not so blue on paper. It is not too dark to show a coloration of green, yet not too light so the contrast is high enough when written on paper. This makes it perfect for, say, taking course notes. The ink flow is great, at least better than the black ink that comes with the Preppy. Although the nib on my Preppy tend to be dry, this ink never makes it skip. It doesn't dry very quickly, but fast enough.Overall, the Diamine evergreen is a very good ink for everyday use. If you like to use green ink but don't like the color to be too bright, this is a great choice.

It is very difficult to provide an objective review of a particular ink, since in most cases the behavior of the ink is dependent on the nib width, ink flow, and other characteristics of the pen in which it is used. The ability to purchase ink samples from Gouletpens is amazingly helpful in finding the right ink for the right pen. That being said, I have found that this ink was so dark that I wasn't really picking up any green color.