Searchable scans of my ink swatches adjusted to look as close as possible to the actual swatch on a calibrated sRGB monitor. Hopefully they can be as useful to others as they’ve been to me. Occasionally the colour of the card will look a bit off in order to more accurately match the ink colour.
Each swatch is numbered roughly in the order it was acquired.
Book 1 was made with a TWSBI Eco White & Rose Gold with a broad nib, a cotton bud, and an Iroshizuku bottle stamp from Inky Converters.
Books 2 & 3 were made using a Sailor Hocoro dip pen with the fude nib & feed instead of the Eco. The Hocoro is much easier to clean between inks, you can get both wide & fine lines from the fude nib, & the feed makes it act more like a fountain pen, giving you a better representation of how the ink will look in use than other dip pens.
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(Please ignore the typos on some cards, like the entirety of the Inkvent '23 swatches that I labelled as Inkvent '22 for some reason. I only noticed most of them during the scanning process 🤦 I’ll likely re-do them at some point in the future.)
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