Reviews by Penrarian: Ink Review: Montblanc Daniel Defoe Palm Green

Pen Used: Pilot Vanishing Point w/ Custom Cursive Italic

Paper Used: Rhodia No. 18 Grid Lines, Georgia Pacific 75g, Hammermill 90g

After last week’s big migration to Blogger I need to take a break to get caught up on photos and scans, so I took a week off. I will do an extra review this month to get me back on track with an ink review every other week.

I picked up Montblanc Daniel Defoe Palm Green at VannessPens while on vacation this summer. Palm Green is a limited edition ink by Montblanc, and I don’t think you can find it any more. If you can pick up a bottle then you should, because this ink is stunning. Palm Green is a beautiful earthy green with some olive and lime colored undertones when it shades. I plan on not using this ink everyday but you totally could--right now I just want to savor my bottle.

Ink behavior break down:

· Flow: zero flow problems, this ink was wetter than the other Montblanc inks that I have used.

· Saturation: this is a nice light earth green, it lends more on the light to dark green than the brown that you see in some earthy greens.

· Shading: Yes! This ink shades to an almost olive green color. It’s super beautiful. Shading will not show up as well on the cheaper papers.

· Dry Time: I had great dry times with this ink, even with my Cursive Italic nib. The time was somewhere between 5-10 seconds depending on the paper you use.

· Show-through and Feathering: You will get show-through with cheap copy paper. Even with the 90g copy paper I had some show-through. You will get feathering on cheaper paper, which you can see in the scan of the 75g paper. It’s not awful but it’s there. The feathering was almost non-existent with the 90g copy paper.