Jim Pingle

Father, geek, serial hobbyist.

Colorverse Colorvent 2024 Day 16 is "Eclipse Silence", a black ink with almost no shading and a sheen of what appears to be gold, but mostly reflective in highlights, not overall.

Black inks are usually uninteresting to me. The sheen helps this one a little but it's still primarily a black ink. I expected at least one black ink to be one in the set, though, given the theme.

Pen is a Jinhao Shark (Black with Clear section), EF nib.

Photo of a "Colorverse Colorspace Size C" swatch card, type 2 which is based on the Hubble space telescope. The ink on the card is an even black that looks slightly reflective in places with hints of gold where the light reflects. Upper left is text reading "#16 Eclipse Silence" written in an EF nib and then a stub nib. Just to the left side of the middle at the top is a large illustration of the Hubble space telescope in negative space among swabbed ink. In the middle right side is text "Hubble Space Telescope NASA" in negative space among scribbled ink. In the middle left is text reading "You are 336.2mi from Earth" in negative space among ink scribbles. In the middle lower left is a blob of swirled ink drawn by a glass dip pen. Near the center are "Mars" and "Uranus" with circles representing those planets, in more swabbed ink. Lower right is text "Colorvent 2024". Laying across the card is a black Jinhao Shark fountain pen with a clear section. The cap of the pen is shaped like the front of a shark, with a mouth, eyes, and a fin.
Collage of six photos of text on paper. Each photo consists of: - "Eclipse Silence" written with an EF nib - "Eclipse Silence" written with a stub nib - A swirl of ink made with a glass dip pen The ink color is the same for all, an even black that looks slightly reflective in places with hints of gold where the light reflects. From the top left, the papers are: - Maruman Mnemosyne - Clairefontaine Triomphe - Paperage Notebook - Iroful Notebook - Midori MD Notebook - Tomoe River S Kanso
Photo of ink writing on paper under magnification. Paper fibers are visible. The ink is an even black that looks slightly reflective in places with hints of gold where the light reflects throughout the ink.
Photo of ink on paper under magnification. Paper fibers are visible. There are some letters in negative space surrounded by ink. The ink is an even black that looks slightly reflective in places with hints of gold where the light reflects throughout the ink. Around the edges of the white lettering are larger areas that appear gold. Inside the white areas is also slightly reflective, but reflecting white lights.

Here are videos of the ink drying. You can see the lights illuminating the ink are white, but as the ink dries, the reflected light gets a gold tone to it.

The last one ended up a bit blown out but still shows the effect well.

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