Yard O Led - Turquoise
Yard O Led - Turquoise - Ink Drop
Yard-O-Led’s stunning Viceroy Grand Victorian has long been on my list of grail pens. With 200 years of lineage, their hand-chased sterling silver pens and pencils are exquisite! What I didn’t know much about however, was their inks. I recently found a bottle of Yard-O-Led Turquoise at my local shop and immediately grabbed it. Their inks are made by Diamine, and I have been excited to give it a try!
Yard O Led - Turquoise - Light to Dark
Although there’s nothing particularly unique about the color, it’s a beautiful, bright aqua or Caribbean blue. It’s a happy, optimistic blue, great for business or casual use. The chromatography shows an interesting pink component that remains, but as water tests proved, there is little water-resistance. Turquoise is a very nice shading ink, with significant variation in every stroke, and on each of the six papers tested. In terms of color and visual feel, I like this ink.
Yard O Led - Turquoise - Shading and Edge
In terms of writing performance, results were mixed. The ink flows well. It’s a wet, well-lubricated ink, but it isn’t as nicely behaved on the page as I would expect. I tried it on three coated, and three uncoated papers, and found some level of feather on each one. I also noticed more bleed-through than I normally do for a turquoise. Drying ranged from very fast on uncoated to average on coated papers.
Yard O Led - Turquoise - Ink Swatch Card
This is a good-looking ink, and the shading is really fantastic, but I can’t say that I’m impressed with the performance. I don’t have a lot of tolerance for feathering. Through google, you can see it for sale on several sites online, but Yard-O-Led’s website doesn’t show any bottled ink at all, so they may have been discontinued as individual products. I got this bottle for an amazing price (US$7 for 28.4ml), and I’m happy to have it in my collection, but I probably won’t reach for it very often.
Yard O Led - Turquoise - Ink Swatch Comparisons
Yard O Led - Turquoise - Ink Bottle and Box