De Atramentis - Atlantic Blue - Ink Review

Hi all and welcome to Day 12 of Duck’s Doodles Inkmas calendar!

What a wild week this has been- I’ve been traveling all over for work while writing these reviews so please excuse the lateness on today’s!

Okay so let’s take a look at De Atramentis Atlantic Blue

Writing 

Woah this ink writes sooooo smoothly. I was writing with a Fine nib Prera and it was an awesome flow rate. If you use a Medium or Bold nib I would just be aware this likely will get spit right on to the page 

It’s pretty well behaved and I didn’t notice any terrible feathering on most papers (Rhodia, field notes and copy paper) though there was a bit as I was writing on a sticky note

Dry time

For going down on the wet side I was surprised that this ink really had a 20 second dry time on my Rhodia. It was a bit longer on my Field Notes, more towards the 30 second mark

Water test

This ink isn’t waterproof and isn’t advertised to be. 

I was impressed how well this ink gripped the paper when water was introduced to the paper. It certainly did get blurry but the cross hatch lines I made were still clear

Color

Woah what a nice deep blue.

There’s no shading, it was consistently deep blue as I was writing and even in the shade test.

It pops pretty well, so it’s a step above a standard blue.

Verdict 

A nice blue! It’s worth adding to your collection if you’re nutty about blue inks or if you’re looking for a good all purpose blue

Thanks for reading, I’m gonna knock out from all this traveling. See y’all tomorrow for day 13!