Ink Swatch Wednesday: Sailor Yurameku Kitsune Biyori and Ferris Wheel Press Oyster Hour
I don’t know exactly why, but I am in a full-on obsession with brown inks right now. After I had set up my currently inked pens earlier this month, as always happens, I added more inked pens because I couldn’t wait to use certain ink samples I got recently, including Sailor Yurameku Kitsune Biyori. I was concerned that it might be too light in a pen, but it isn’t at all, and right now I love writing with it so much.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I slept on Sailor Yurameku inks for some reason, and now I want them all! They are so interesting, especially on Tomoe River paper, with their chromoshading and color-changing properties.
I originally inked a pen with Ferris Wheel Press Oyster Hour:
I can’t help thinking from this ink swatch that it looks like foundation that you put on your face 😆
And I thought having both this and Kitsune Biyori might be too similar, but once I reviewed the swatch and then wrote with it, it was clear that the Sailor ink is a cooler brown, kind of reminding me of cocoa, while the Ferris Wheel Press reminds me more of a latte with maybe more milk than usual. 🙂
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.” - Richard P. Feynman
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” - Charles Buxton
Side-by-side comparison on Tomoe River
Both of these colors are really cozy and have nudged my interest in similar-colored fountain pens, like the Hong Dian Milk Tea, Opus 88 Milk Tea, and Kaweco Sport Macchiato. 😅 I would probably prioritize the Opus 88 since I don’t have a pen from that brand yet. But you see how deep the obsession is going…
I’m sure it’ll wear off eventually, and I’ll move on to mossy/swampy/olive greens, one of my other recent obsessions, or maybe swing back to bright shimmer inks again. Who knows? My fountain pen ink whims know no bounds. I have some more brown ink samples or bottled ink coming soon (perhaps even later today), so I’m sure I’ll share more brown swatches in the near future.
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