Ink Swatch Wednesday: Papier Plume Bayou Nightfall

My first Papier Plume ink sample: Bayou Nightfall. I learned about this ink when I tried out a pen inked with it at my first Pelikan Hub meetup a month ago. It's a nice, cool greenish gray, which appears more gray in writing than in the swatch.

I'm not sure if this will get me as deep into gray ink exploration as I have gotten into brown inks, but gray inks are another color that seem like you could have several of them and not have any kind of overlap in look. I know I am continually surprised by how many of my brown inks are distinct from each other.

I have not inked this up yet, but I think I will put it into my Gourmet Pens x BENU Talisman which is currently filled with another lovely gray, Pilot Iroshizuku Fuyu-Syogun. I like how the JJ Lax architect grind shows off the Iroshizuku ink, and will probably like Bayou Nightfall from that nib also.

Comparisons

I don't have too many greenish-grays in my collection, but I picked out 3 inks to compare: Troublemaker Petrichor, Van Dieman's Russian Blue, and Herbin Vert de Gris (more of a similar color family pick).

What's funny is between the Troublemaker and Van Dieman's inks, the Russian Blue swatch looks more similar to the Bayou Nightfall swatch, but Petrichor looks more similar to the gray of the writing sample, if a bit warmer from the multishading tones.

For Vert de Gris, I included it because it's a really nice green-gray, but it's clearly more of a colorful grayish green (though the scan makes it look more bluish, annoyingly) relative to Bayou Nightfall.

Anyway! If you have any favorite grays, green-grays, or blue-grays, please share. For more of my fountain pen posts, you can check out the archives here.