Colorverse Colorvent 2024 Day 19 is "Milky Way (Glistening)", a purple ink packed with teal shimmer. Less dense areas are dark purple, shaded areas even darker and full of shimmer. There is a tiny bit of gold(?) sheen, but it's hard to see.

To put it mildly, "It's full of stars!" It looks much like a starry night sky. This is among my favorites of the set.

Pen is a TWSBI Diamond 580 Prussian Blue 1.1 stub

Photo of a "Colorverse Colorspace Size C" swatch card, type 1 which is based on the James Webb space telescope.  The ink on the card is a purple ink packed with teal shimmer. Less dense areas are dark purple, shaded areas even darker and full of shimmer.  Upper left is text reading "#19 Milky Way" written in an EF nib and then a stub nib.  Below the text are multiple stars and a galaxy outlined in ink.  Upper right is a large illustration of the James Webb telescope in negative space among swabbed ink.  In the lower left is a small illustration of the Hubble space telescope in scribbled ink.  In the middle lower left are two blobs of ink with some visible areas where it dried darker and has even more shimmer. There are lines of darker ink in the center.  In the middle right is a blob of scribbled ink drawn by a glass dip pen.  Lower right is text "Colorverse 2024".  Laying across the card is a TWSBI Diamond 580 fountain pen with Prussian Blue coloring and silver accents.
Collage of six photos of text on paper. Each photo consists of:  - "Milky Way" written with an EF nib - "Milky Way" written with a stub nib - A swirl of ink made with a glass dip pen  The ink color is the same for all, a purple ink packed with teal shimmer. Less dense areas are dark purple, shaded areas even darker and full of shimmer.  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 under magnification. Paper fibers are visible. The shape appears to be a letter "S" entirely full of teal shimmer from edge to edge with dark purple ink in between and at the edges.
Photo of ink writing under magnification. Paper fibers are visible. The shape appears to be part of a letter "M". This letter has a medium amount of teal shimmer allowing more of the purple ink to be seen. Along the edges of the letter is a little gold-ish outline of sheen.

The videos of this drying are fascinating, you can see shimmer particles flowing some distance and settling, then it finishes almost entirely as shimmer.

These videos were made using a fairly wet stub nib, a smaller nib or dryer nib may not be packed quite so dense. The dip pen writing had a lot of shimmer, but not this much, and more of the purple base was visible.

Be sure to pick a pen that can handle large amounts of shimmer well without clogging!

Here are a couple more dying videos plus a short writing sample to see how it goes down with a stub nib. Not long enough to see it dry, so there's a separate video of how it looks dry and angled in light to catch the reflection.

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