One more ink in the Tono & Lims Star Light Series: Aldebaran
There is a lot going on, and it’s wild! Base is coral but it also chromashades closer to orange and pink. On Iroful & MD the writing is coral and light, but legible. Col-o-ring is more pink.
Scans
The scans lean a bit pink-ish compared to how it looks naturally, but they’re very close.
Photos
The swatches have gradients and areas of coral, pink, & orange. Not sheen!
UV is even wilder. It glows differently on each paper depending on coverage, blue/orange/purple/green. It’s so weird, I love it!
These photos show each swatch under visible light, a mix of visible and UV light, and UV light alone.
Col-o-ring paper is very reactive to UV and the paper itself glows blue brightly, which makes the glow of the ink appear less intense. Iroful is mildly reactive to UV and glows a little. MD reacts very low so it shows off the glow of the ink the best.
A mix of UV and visible light seems to yield the best results to the eye.
Microscope
Under magnification on col-o-ring it still looks like a pinkish tone, with some areas much darker red.
Iroful still looks coral, but you can see it’s slightly more red in the center and orange toward the edges.
MD has more pink toward the center and orange outside in places, but overall is still about the same base coral color.
Microscope UV
These photos show magnified portions of each swatch under visible light, a mix of visible and UV light, and UV light alone.
Microscope UV photos are a bit tricky since I have to dial the light up/down on the microscope and add UV light from a flashlight. As the UV light intensifies, it seems to play tricks with the microscope’s camera with the background to some extent.
Chromatography
In visible light it starts pink, then fades into a large open area, then a thin line at the end.
Under UV the large area in the middle glows light blue brightly, with some purple just after, and then another thin halo of blue past the leading edge.
Bonus Microscope UV
Under UV on MD it shows a bit of everything. Areas of blue and purple, orange near the edge, and an outline of green.
Group Photos
In the group photos is even more apparent that the writing is dark blue on col-o-ring, orange on Iroful, and light blue on MD!
Writing Samples
Because of the way it was behaving I thought I’d try a flex pen. It looks a lot more red-orange this way, but a darker shade of the same overall hue. Some of the larger parts of letters have some pink.
Under UV it’s all over the place, but in a good way! Center is glowing orange, thin parts are blue, orange is outlined in green, some parts are even more pinkish again.
Overall, even though I don’t like how pink it goes at times, it’s better in a flex pen so it’s still a winner for me.
Verdict
While the base color isn’t one I’m partial to (I wish it were more orange), I enjoy the chromashading under visible and UV light. Especially under UV on MD paper.
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