on salePilot Iroshizuku Chiku-rin - Ink Sample

Pilot Isoshizuka is one of my favorite inks. It comes out a touch duller than that image, but it's still a beautiful late summer green. Love it.

This is a really pretty, vibrant, fresh spring green. To me, it looks darker than the swatch in this listing, but that actually makes it more readable than I was worried it would be. The shading is very noticeable, but not so much that the lightest parts are hard to read against the paper when compared to the darkest parts. I'm not sure this is something I'd use for longer-form writing because of its brightness, but I can absolutely see myself using it for things like commenting on/grading papers. I'm new enough to fountain pens and ink that I don't feel confident actually rating this on the flow/shading/etc. scales, but it did dry pretty quickly as far as I could tell, and it did not bleed through Leuchtturm 1917 paper at all. Hopefully the attached photo will be useful for more experienced folks than I.

I love this color and use it as a background for my drawings. It brings a lovely spring look to them, perfect for me.

I bought a sample thinking, Well, I probably won't like it that much, it seems a little off. But it's great. A fresh, clean spring color, very pretty. I have way more bottles of Iroshizuku already than any sane person should have. Sigh.Obviously this is not a conservative color, but it's readable and appealing for everyday note taking or journaling. It would be fun to write notecards or letters with. A bit of shading, not a lot. Quite quick to dry, my left-handed son is eager to try it out. The sample makes it look slightly olive, but on the page it just looks like a natural (vs. neon) bright spring green.

Very pretty, shades beautifully from a light yellow to spring green on tomoe river paper.