Hello!

I go by Emm, and I’m based out of Vancouver up here in Canada. I’m a lover of stationery, video games, and collector of various hobbies. I’m not an expert in fountain pens, but I love categorizing and indexing data in visually beautiful ways. This is why I decided to start blogging the fountain pen inks in my collection - more data and more swatches means more informed choices for everyone :)

Here and on my other social media, I’ll be sharing fountain pen ink swatches, anything relating to stationery, and the occasional thought about video and table top games (only when that goblin part of my brain breaks out and wants to share).

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 FAQs

  • In my ink swatches, I generally use two different glass dip pens to swatch:

    In previous ink swatches (previously the swatches had rectangular pieces of paper, either tall or short), I used two different glass dip pens to swatch:

    1. The back end of the Moonman Majohn Starry Sky Glass Dip Pen in Galaxy (which I ordered on Jetpens years ago). This is for the large pools of ink.

    2. An extra fine glass dip pen from Canadian artisan Janelle Tyler (which I bought locally in Vancouver at Buchan’s).

  • For my ink swatches and comparisons I like to utilize four different papers to show off the differences:

    1. Rhodia dot grid paper

    2. Kokuyo A5 KB paper

    3. Midori A5 block paper

    4. Tomoe River 52gsm paper (Sanzen) - specifically from Sterling Ink notebooks, usually.

    5. A new addition is the Col-o-ring swatch booklets, as I thought it may be a relevant tool for others to compare to their own inks.

  • It can be for a number of reasons, but the most likely is a combination of how I’ve edited the photos, the calibration of either of our monitors, or if night shift/flux is active on your device (the warm tint over the screen for your eyes). I try to only bright my photos and do my best to keep the colours accurate, but it’s always good to see the ink in person if you can.

    Also, I only edit the photos to try and make them as colour accurate as possible.

  • I mostly use an iPhone 12 for my photos. Sometimes I also use my older Nikon D5100, with a nifty fifty lens.

    I do my best to colour correct the photos, but I’m also relying on my own eyes and intuition.

    I scan the swatches in using my Epson Ecotank ET-7700. Scanned swatches are never colour corrected, as I usually find them quite accurate.

  • In order for me to index the inks for the sorting/filter function, I’ve organized all inks to post to a different part of the site (noted in case you want to add swatches to an RSS feed).

    Please use this link here: https://www.paperemm.com/ink-index/