I confess I’ve had Wearinguel ink samples but never a full bottle of ink and now that I have Wayfarer, I get the fuss.
Wayfarer is a shading, shimmer ink — the base color is a turquoise/teal with purple shimmer. The shimmer particles can be seen in the bottom of the bottle. So pretty.
The base ink is a darker, turquoise blue with purply shimmer.
If you need a nail polish to match you ink, I recommend Mooncat’s Root of All Evil over a blue creme. Perfect match!
Depending on the line width and pressure, the Wayfarer ink base color can be a deeper teal to a light turquoise. My initial inclination was to compare Wayfarer to Robert Oster’s ocean-y blues like Fire & Ice but Wayfarer is not a sheening ink so its an unfair comparison. Also, Fire & Ice is much greener.
What I did end up comparing Wayfarer with were a few other bluish inks with shimmer but those shimmer particles can shift the overall quality of a color. I had some blue inks with silver shimmer but those inks look so different because of the silver shimmer. So I compared Wayfarer with Diamine Jack Frost and Birminghan Pen Co. Ohio River Steamboat Twinkle (no longer available) though neither is a close comparison. Shimmer inks definitely are hard to find comps. The closest I found was a non-shimmer, Robert Oster Australis Hydra.
Overall, I am a Wearinguel convert. The colors are beautiful, I knew that but I hadn’t done more than swatch them in the past. Now, I’m sold. Dammit, I don’t need anymore ink.
Tools:
- Paper: Rhodia No. 16 Ice Pad (A5) Graph and Ink Swatching Guidesheets
- Pens: #2 Round Escoda Reserva Paint Brush, Dominant Industry Ink Muddler, Sailor Hocoro Dip Pens, Zebra G Dip Nib and Tachikawa T-40 Nib Holder
- Swatches: Col-o-Ring Ink Testing Book ($10) & Col-o-dex Rotary Cards ($15)
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