Noodler’s - Polar Brown - Ink Review

Hi all and welcome to Duck’s Doodles Inkmasday 21!

Today I pulled out Noodler’s Polar Brown, awfully fitting considering how cold it is here today in the Northeast.

This ink is designed to be cold-proof (hence the Polar moniker), as well as waterproof, bleach proof and ethanol proof.

Writing

I loaded this ink into my Noodler’s Nib Creaper, with a flex nib.

I was fully expecting this to ink to be wet, like most Noodler’s inks, but was actually on the drier side. 

I had no feathering in my Rhodia writing sample, none really in my field notes and some feathering on copy paper

There was some bleed through on my Field Notes, but none on the Rhodia. 

It was a pretty smooth writer, I had a little bit of skipping initially but once it got going it was smooth sailing.

Dry Time

This ink was essentially dry after 5 seconds. I was pretty shocked, since I never know how these nuclear-proof ink formulas will affect things like dry times.

Water Test

This ink has only a little tiny bit of ink come up immediately after writing, and is totally waterproof after 2 minutes of waiting

Color

This ink is a nice, deep chocolate brown.

You don’t get any shading out of it, but since this ink is bulletproof everything is a trade off.

Verdict

I really enjoy this shade of brown. The chocolatey hue looks great, and is a dependable writer.

The idea of an ink I can leave in pens that can be safe if I accidentally leave them in my car is A+ in my book.

Thanks for reading, happy writing and see you tomorrow for day 22 of Inkmas!