Platinum Leaf Green is a green ink with plenty of shading and a little purple sheen.

This is from their Mix Free line of mixable inks intended to be combined for creating custom colors. Some people will mix any inks together to get certain effects, but inks can be chemically incompatible which could affect the results or their usage. Having a variety intended to be mixed eliminates such problems.

Scans

The shading looks especially good on Iroful.

Scan of an ink swatch card made from Col-o-ring paper Scan of an ink swatch card made from Iroful paper Scan of an ink swatch card made from MD paper
Swatch Card Scans. Click to enlarge.

Photos

At first I thought this didn’t have any real sheen, but there is a definite purple look to it, not just dark green concentrated ink.

Swatch Card Photos. Click to enlarge.

No sign of the sheen in writing, though.

Microscope

Not much going on under the microscope, but the shading on Iroful still looks neat.

Ink under Magnification. Click to enlarge.

Chromatography

Scan of chromatography paper.
Chromatography strip scan

It starts with a large area of pale yellow then a narrow band of cyan at the end.

Photo of chromatography paper under UV light.
Chromatography strip photo under UV light

The blue band has some glow, but it didn’t result in any glow on the swatches.

Verdict

On its own it’s a nice medium green. I’ve only used it once in a Jinhao 20, and it’s worked well there. I don’t have any of the other inks in this line yet to try mixing as they suggest.

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