New 2025 Lamy Inks: Petrol and Sepia
I've been seeing a few teasers of the new Lamy inks online, and I was going to wait until seeing swatches online in different papers. But, I'm lucky to live in one of the 2 cities with a Lamy store in the United States, and today, I woke up to this text message. So, I had to go. My swatching process is very simple. Every time I get a new ink, I make a swatch on watercolor hot press paper(similar to col-o-ring paper) and Iroful paper since it usually shows a different tonality. I also make a chromatography sample to see similarities with other inks I own. Lamy Petrol I've never used the original Lamy Petrol, so I cannot share my views regarding how different or similar it is. It's a very dark teal. The chromatography shows how much black is in it, making it very dark. I'm obsessed with the way the ink looks on Iroful paper; that cold tone is perfection. I would not consider this ink a sheening ink because to see the sheen, I had to put a lot of ink on the paper, w...
