Jim Pingle

Father, geek, serial hobbyist.

Colorverse - Life on Mars which is a “dusty” blue ink with chromashading.

Photo of 3 ink swatches & chromatography strip for Colorverse Life on Mars which is a "dusty" blue ink with chromashading in swatches and some shading in text. Each swatch contains the ink name followed by "XX" 2 curlicues in both stub and EF widths. Swatch 1: Iroful swatch card with an outline of a paint palette and tube. The palette is mostly filled in with swirls of ink, a few small areas are darker a lighter gray, almost brown center. There is an outline of a paint tube which is swabbed and looks similar. The writing has a lots bit of shading across letters with wider lines. Swatch 2: Col-o-ring swatch card with a stamped outline of a Colorverse ink bottle, which is teardrop-shaped with the point at the bottom left. The outlined area is mostly full of an ink blob which is darker and more gray at the bottom and paler and more blue at the top in a gradient. Swab across "cap" is similar, but more gray. Again, the words in the sample have a some shading. Swatch 3: Midori MD swatch card with a stamped outline of a Colorverse ink bottle. The outlined area is mostly filled in with swirls of ink, a few areas are darker with even darker edges and gray interiors. Swab across "cap" is similar. The text has much more pronounced shading and on nearly every letter. Chromatography is visible on most of the strip, there is a line of yellow where it started. A large faint area of blue. Then blends into pink, then purple, then light cyan.

With this one I tried to get a similar shot of each paper (Midori, Col-o-ring, Iroful).

Each one brings out the colors differently, though IMO, Midori does it best.

The video in the fourth image moves around the large swatch area of the card and shows that there is even some red sheen that didn’t show on other paper.

Photo of ink writing on Midori paper under magnification. The ink is blue-gray, darker and more blue at the edges, and yellow-ish in a narrow band near the center. There is a dark line almost black down the center as well. The edges of the line are somewhat rough.
Photo of ink writing on Col-o-ring paper under magnification. The ink is blue-gray, slightly darker at the edges, and blue-green near the center. There are some small dark paper fibers which are almost black near the bottom center of the line. The edges of the line are very rough.
Photo of ink writing on Iroful paper under magnification. The ink is blue-gray, darker and more blue at the edges, some areas around the middle are yellow-ish in the background. Some paper fibers near the center are much darker, almost black. The edges of the line are smooth.

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