In honor of their 10th anniversary of Federalist Pens created FranklyX, an exclusive Robert Oster Shimmy Ink ($20). The ink is a black base color with champagne/light bronze shimmer particles to create a golden color-shifting shimmer showing green, grey and blue hues as well as the top color of gold. When compared to other inks…
Over the last couple months, I’ve seen such enthusiasm around the new Zento line of Uni-Ball gel pens. They are consistently sold out with massive fervor when they are re-stocked. I wanted to find out what the big deal was about. I decided to try both the standard Uni-ball ZENTO Gel Pen (0.38 mm Cloud…
Having watched lots of planner set-up videos recently, I am seeing a lot planner and journal supplies that were purchased on Amazon. A lot of these products are from brands I’ve never heard of before so I got curious. I tend to purchase name-brand writing tools from smaller, online retailers like JetPens and Vanness Pen…
Were you one of the cool kids in elementary school or middle school or even high school who had access to markers that could change color? These markers came with several saturated colors and a marker with no color. But if you wrote with the colorful markers and then used the marker with no color…
What is the blackest ink on the market right now? Platinum Carbon Black? Montblanc Permanent Black? Platinum recently advertised an ink that is significantly darker than Carbon Black. Platinum Chou Kuro. The potential downside of Chou Kuro is the ease of cleaning. The first edition of this ink comes with its own converter and a…
If you missed it, make sure you read first part of the Octopus Write & Draw inks review! Again, due to the large number of inks in this line, I am only showing an overview of the Write & Draw colors rather than comparing colors to other inks in my collection. This line consists of…
Troublemaker inks seems to be be everywhere lately – new dealers in the United States and the addition of several new inks as well. I’m showing off a couple of these new inks here – Butterfly Dream and Polar Lights. Troublemaker packages their ink in 60mL dark plastic bottles. I have found some variation in…
