Hello, welcome back to 24 Days of Dupes 2024. Below you’ll find the inks for days 19-24. If you have a suggestion for a possible dupe for any of these inks, let me know in the comments, and I’ll add it to the wrap-up post.
Some info:
- You can click the swatch images to view them larger.
- I swatched each ink with a small (#2) paintbrush and wrote with a Sailor Compass Hocoro Dip Pen.
- All inks are swatched on Muji A5 loose leaf paper in dot grid ruling
- While I try to edit the images so they look as close to real life as possible, I can’t guarantee that the color you see on your screen will be true to life. However, with all the dupes on the same page, you’ll see how the colors look in relation to each other, which is the main point of these posts.
- I can’t fairly call any ink a perfect color match, as I’m not comparing them scientifically, I’m just using my eyes. Therefore, I won’t be going any further than calling an ink a “near-perfect color match.”
- Reminder: I’m not attempting to dupe the special properties of the inks — sheen, shimmer, etc. — only the base color.
- When I mention “writing samples,” I’m talking about where I’ve written 2024 Colorvent (Calendar) on the right-hand side of the page.
Enjoy, and happy inking!
Jump to a day: Milky Way| ⇣ White Hole | ⇣ Giant SunSpot | ⇣ Portuguese Meteor | ⇣ Dante’s Cosmology | ⇣ Christmas Star
Day 19: Milky Way
Milky Way is a deep royal purple that shades to almost black with beautiful turquoise shimmer.
Colorverse’s description for day 19 is, “Milky Way captures the beauty and mystery of the Milky Way in the night sky.”
Comparison Inks
- Octopus Fluids Violet Lion is significantly too light, and, I think, a bit too pink.
- Taccia Murasaki looks like it is roughly the same hue, but it is lighter at its lightest and has the off-black halo around heavy ink deposits.
- Diamine Raise a Glass appears to be a similar hue, but it’s more vibrant and shades darker. The shimmer is also a different color, shifting from green to silvery.
- Jacques Herbin Violet Boréal is too pink and far too light.
- Leonardo Officina Italiana Purple is too light and too vibrant.
- Papier Plume Mardi Gras Indians Purple is to muted and far too light.
Best Match
The closest inks to Milky Way are Raise a Glass (top writing samples) and Murasaki (bottom writing samples), however, the former is too dark — perhaps you could water it down to get the right shade — and the latter is too light.
Jump to a day: ⇡ Milky Way| White Hole | ⇣ Giant SunSpot | ⇣ Portuguese Meteor | ⇣ Dante’s Cosmology | ⇣ Christmas Star | ⤒ Back to Top
Day 20: White Hole
White Hole is a pale blue-gray that needs to be in a very wet pen to be legible in writing. It has some multishading properties, turning a pale — nearly white — coral.
Colorverse’s description for day 20 is, “A White Hole is the opposite of a black hole, and the color is inspired by the theoretical celestial object that emits matter and energy.”
Comparison Inks
- Diamine Chichen Itza may be roughly the correct hue, but it is too light at its lightest and shades too dark at the darkest.
- Colorverse Aurora Borealis is also a multishader, but it shades to a more vibrant pink. It’s lighter than White Hole at its lightest.
- Birmingham Pen Co Sterling Silver is completely wrong, being too dark, too blue, and shading to nearly black.
- Ink Institute Cat at Dusk Is too gray, but is roughly similar in amount of shading and even appears to have a bit of the multishading properties.
- Colorverse Quahog is too dark and too blue, but it shades in a similar manner.
- Colorverse Laplace Resonance is too light, and, while it is also a multishader, shades to too vibrant a orangey-pink.
- Jacques Herbin Les Toits de Paris looks like it’s a similar hue, but shades far too dark. You might be able to water it down to get to a rough match.
Best Match
The best color match for White Hole among those I tested was Les Toits de Paris ( bottom writing sample), although it’s too dark. Cat at Dusk (top writing sample set, top samples) is too gray, as is Aurora Borealis (top top writing sample set, bottom samples).
Jump to a day: ⇡ Milky Way| ⇡ White Hole | Giant SunSpot | ⇣ Portuguese Meteor | ⇣ Dante’s Cosmology | ⇣ Christmas Star | ⤒ Back to Top
Day 21: Giant SunSpot
Giant SunSpot is a vibrant red-orange that shades almost to red.
Colorverse’s description for day 21 is, “Giant SunSpot is a color inspired by the giant sunspots that appear on the surface of the sun.”
Comparison Inks
- Monteverde Fire Opal
- Diamine Fire Embers is too vibrant and doesn’t shade as dark.
- Diamine Fireside Snug is too muted and shades a little too dark.
- Monteverde LA Pen Show Coral I significantly too dark and muted.
- Sailor Ink Studio 873 is too muted.
Best Match
The best color match for Giant Sunspot among those I tested was Fire Opal which is a near-perfect match with a F nib, but sightly too muted with a M nib.
Jump to a day: ⇡ Milky Way| ⇡ White Hole | ⇡ Giant SunSpot | Portuguese Meteor | ⇣ Dante’s Cosmology | ⇣ Christmas Star | ⤒ Back to Top
Day 22: Portuguese Meteor
Portuguese Meteor is a slightly blue pale teal, but not enough to be considered turquoise. It has a little bit of shading and turquoise shimmer.
Colorverse’s description for day 22 is, “The Portuguese Meteor is a color inspired by a meteor that streaked across the Portuguese sky in 2024.”
Comparison Inks
- Laban Poseidon Green is a bit too blue and shades too dark.
- Colorverse Photon is too blue and significantly too dark.
- Diamine Blue Peppermint is slightly too blue and a bit too dark.
- Colorverse Danoje Festival is far too green and too pale.
- Robert Oster Morning Mist is too dark and too blue.
- Colorverse Grand Prism is too pale, but might be roughly the same hue.
- Diamine Soft Mint
- Diamine Spearmint Diva is a tiny bit too green and too dark. It does, however, have shimmer, though it’s silver.
Best Match
The best color match for Portuguese Meteor among those I tested was Soft Mint which is the same hue but too dark. I think you could water it down to the correct color.
Jump to a day: ⇡ Milky Way| ⇡ White Hole | ⇡ Giant SunSpot | ⇡ Portuguese Meteor | Dante’s Cosmology | ⇣ Christmas Star | ⤒ Back to Top
Day 23: Dante’s Cosmology
Dante’s Cosmology is a blurple-black — it’s definitely more purple than your standard blue-black — that manages to shade through several levels without turning near-black.
Colorverse’s description for day 23 is, “Dante’s Cosmology is a color inspired by the view of the universe described in Dante Alighieri’s poem “La Divina Commedia”.”
Comparison Inks
- Wearingeul The Happy Prince is not purple enough and doesn’t shade dark enough.
- J. Herbin Bleu Myosotis is too pale and shades differently, forming “halos” instead of leaving the entire heavy deposit dark.
- Sailor Manyo Kakitsubata
- Sailor Ink Studio 343
- Noodler’s Kung Te-Cheng is far too dark. It was not that dark in my ink book swatch.
- Lamy Benitoite is far too blue, but it has similar shading.
Best Match
The best color matches for Dante’s Cosmology among those I tested were 343 (top writing samples) and Kakitsubata (bottom writing samples) which are near-perfect color matches. 343 doesn’t shade as dark, so it might not be as good of a match in very wet pens.
Jump to a day: ⇡ Milky Way| ⇡ White Hole | ⇡ Giant SunSpot | ⇡ Portuguese Meteor | ⇡ Dante’s Cosmology | Christmas Star | ⤒ Back to Top
Day 24: Christmas Star
Christmas Star is a bright yellow-orange that shades to orange. It has bright yellow shimmer that perfectly matches its lightest color.
Colorverse’s description for day 24 is, “Christmas Star is a color inspired by the Star of Bethlehem, or the bright shining star seen during the Christmas season.”
Comparison Inks
- Troublemaker Mango is too orange, although it has similar levels of shading.
- Noodler’s Southwest Sunset is also too orange, or perhaps it’s more correct to say it doesn’t go as light at its lightest.
- Ink Institute x Gourmet Pens Puffin’s Beak is very close to Christmas Star, but it doesn’t go as light, and it shades slightly darker at its darkest.
- Diamine Amber doesn’t shade quite as much, and it’s a tiny bit more muted.
- Diamine Gold Star has the same feel as Christmas Star, but its too yellow.
Best Match
The best color match for Christmas Star among those I tested was Puffin’s Beak which is just slightly more vibrant. This isn’t really noticeable with a F nib, but it is with the M nib.
Jump to a day: ⇡ Milky Way| ⇡ White Hole | ⇡ Giant SunSpot | ⇡ Portuguese Meteor | ⇡ Dante’s Cosmology | ⇡ Christmas Star | ⤒ Back to Top
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