Van Dieman's Night - Aurora Australis Ink - 30 ml
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Description
Van Dieman's inks pay tribute to the Australian island of Tasmania, where they are produced. The inks are handmade in small batches using a minimum of 95% Australian ingredients. Each series is inspired by Tasmanian fauna, flora, history or extraordinary landscapes.
Aurora Australis is a spectacularly vibrant ink that replicates the dancing green and purple ominous glows that swirl in the sky when the southern hemisphere is lit up by the highly charged particles fired at us from the sun during a Coronal Mass Ejection. The combination of pink-purple, dark magenta-black, and bright green are a result of the high saturation of two dyes that combine to create these effects in the ink. The true color of the ink is the light pinky tone, but this is accompanied by the darker tone in heavy writing, and the bright green sheen on good quality fountain pen friendly paper.
Aurora Australis performs very well in all nib sizes, but has a great amount of variation in hue and tone depending on the pen and paper combination. Finer, drier pens will produce the lighter, pinky tone more effectively, especially on paper types that allow ink to dry faster, while wetter writing pens and those with broader nibs will bring out more of the darker tones, as well as more of the bright green sheen, especially when combined with higher quality, less absorbent paper such as Tomoe River or Midori. A combination of a medium nib pen on Rhodia pad or a fine nib pen on Tomoe River produces writing that brings out both tones, and some noticeable sheening.
Ink data
Surface tension: 43,7 mN/m
Saturation: very high
Sheen: very high
Shading: very low
Shimmer: none
Flow Wetness: wet
Technical data
| Product number | VD UW-30-TZ |
| Bottle size | 30 ml |
| Weight | 116 g |
| Size (length/width/height) | 4,5 cm / 4,2 cm / 6 cm |
| Water Resistance | No |
| Dip Pen Ink | Yes |
| Fountain Pen Ink | Yes |
| Shimmer ✨ | No |
| Sheen | Yes |
| Scented | No |
| UV Reactive | No |
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