Yesterday, in the Pen Addicts Norway Facebook group, someone was wondering why we haven’t seen any green inks yet. Today brings the first green ink in this year’s calendar!

Velvet Emerald is a standard ink, but it also has a bit of a red sheen in wet areas. The color is a quite dark emerald green – or dark teal – with some nice shading. Initially, I thought I had many inks in this color, but I discovered that most similar inks are significantly darker than Velvet Emerald. The ink flow seems quite wet.

A quick summary of inks 6 to 10, shows two chameleon inks, two standard inks, and one scented ink. Here, we can see the red sheen in Velvet Emerald, and a bit more of the shimmer in Moon Beam and Buck’s Fizz. Out of these five, Jacaranda remains my favorite, but I also appreciate Velvet Emerald and Moon Beam.

Liv Mogstad Strickert is a regular contributor to Pennen er mektigere and will be posting daily ink reviews of Diamine’s Inkvent 2023 in December.