Jim Pingle

Father, geek, serial hobbyist.

Colorverse Dust Storm is a miss for me, too mustardy (like Sunbeam)

The teeny tiny bottles are fun, but not very useful. I had to pipette ink out into an inkwell even just to swatch them, no dip pen fit in the bottle.

Photo of 3 ink swatches & chromatography strip for Colorverse Dust Storm which is a mustard yellow and maybe vaguely tan colored ink with minimal shading. 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 with even darker edges. There is an outline of a paint tube which is swabbed and looks similar. The writing has a tiny 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 at the bottom and paler at the top in a gradient. Swab across "cap" is similar, but not as dark. Again, the words in the sample have a little shading, but not much. 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. Swab across "cap" is similar. As with the others, the text has minimal shading. Chromatography is faint but visible on most of the strip, there is a line of yellow where it started. A large faint area of blue-gray. Then blends into faint yellow and orange areas before fading away completely.

Doesn’t look any better to me up close. I prefer more yellow-orange, and this is sort of a dark yellow-gray? Has some shading, but it’s just lighter/darker and not any different colors mixed in.

It’s legible, though, and not too light.

Photo of ink lines on Midori paper under magnification. The ink is dark yellow-gray, with some areas lighter and other areas darker, especially in a couple small places where paper fibers appear very dark yellow. The edges of the lines are somewhat rough.
Photo of ink lines on col-o-ring paper under magnification. The ink is dark yellow-gray, and near the center of a horizontal line there are paper fibers which appear very dark yellow. The edges of the lines are very rough.
Photo of ink lines on Iroful paper under magnification. The ink is dark yellow-gray, lighter toward the center of the line and darker at the edges. The edges of the lines are smooth.
Photo of ink swatch on Midori paper under magnification. The ink is dark yellow-gray, with the lower right third being lighter and the rest darker, especially in the lower left where paper fibers appear very dark yellow.

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