Jim P.

Father, geek, serial hobbyist.

Since I got a Stainless Steel Vector and moved my FI nib to it, I put a medium italic nib in the Vector I was using. As this is a fairly wide nib it seemed like a good chance to try out Van Dieman's Natura Dualis Nightfall.

Me likey! It's one of the few chromashading inks I've had actually work like it should, but that may be the nib more than the ink. It's a tad on the pale side like most of these, but still very readable.

I'll have to swatch this one soon!

Photo of writing on paper and a partially visible fountain pen cap across the top. The pen cap is medium blue with a silver clip. The writing reads "Parker Vector MI / Van Dieman's Natura Dualis Nightfall". The words are written with a medium width stub nib which gives the letters significant line variation. The ink is a pale slate blue with some shading that changes to almost pink in the center.
Close-up of the writing from the previous photo giving a closer look at the color variation in the ink shading.

Nightfall also looks nice on Tomoe River S Kanso (Sanzen). The previous sample was on Midori MD.

Don't mind the flow issue in the middle, my hand was at an awkward angle at the bottom of the pad where my palm usually rests, and that Parker MI nib can be very picky about angles.

I may have to clean out a TWSBI and load this up in one of those.

Photo of writing on paper, close-up of a partial sentence "docs from J" The ink is mostly a pale slate blue but in areas with more ink it shades to more pinkish

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