Phew, that’s a wrap on the first 24 Days of Dupes! Please let me know in the comments if you’d like to see me match the 2024 Inkvent calendar; it would probably be in late February into March.
As I mentioned in the opening post, Colorverse has no plans to release the full line of Colorvent inks like Diamine does with Inkvent. However, Colorverse does plan to release the “top 3” inks. More on that in a bit.
General Thoughts
If you’re familiar with Colorverse inks, you’ll likely understand me when I say that the calendar was very Colorverse. The best way I can think of to explain is that the inks are very “solid” — vibrant and intense — with some sheen and some of the multishading we’ve seen in more recent inks.
I wish there had been more variety in both colors and formulas — see the breakdowns below — but most of the colors included in the calendar are nice. Despite the lack of variety, the colors included are rather unique. There were eleven inks that I only managed to “almost match” where I found an ink the same hue, but slightly lighter or darker. On top of that there were four inks for which wasn’t even able to find a hue match.
Assuming Colorverse decides to release future Colorvent calendars, I would like to see more holiday theming. I know space is Colorverse’s thing, but other than the Santa hat the astronaut on the box is wearing, there’s nothing that makes this year’s Colorvent an advent-specific countdown calendar. Given how many inks Colorverse has now that aren’t space related, I think they could improve by choosing colors related to end-of-year holidays in various cultures.
Voting
Each Colorvent calendar has a QR code on the back next to the text below.
TOP 3 INK WILL BE RELEASED
While the Colorvent Calendar is produced in limited quantities, following a comprehensive analysis of voting data via Google Form and consumer feedback, we will select the top three Colorvent Calendar inks as our most promising candidates for signature bottled inks. These will be released in upsized formats at a later date.
The above text has been exactly transcribed from the back of the Colorvent Calendar.
Because the QR code leads to a form that doesn’t not specifically thank people for purchasing the calendar, I don’t feel any compunction about sharing the link: 2024 Colorvent Calendar Vote. Voting is open until January 31, 2025.
“Running the Numbers”
For giggles, I’ve included the numbers for Diamine’s debut Inkvent calendar.
Formulas
Colorverse doesn’t identify the formula of each ink like Diamine does. Butt, there were 4 different formulas: standard, multishading, sheening, and shimmer.
| Colorvent | Inkvent 2019 | |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 15 (62.5%) | 12 (48%) |
| Multishader | 3 (12.5%) | 0 |
| Sheen | 2 (8.33%) | 6 (24%) |
| Shimmer | 4 (16.66%) | 4 (16%) |
| Shimmer & Sheen | 0 | 3 (12%) |
It would have been nice to see more variety among the formulas. I especially expected more shimmer inks, since Colorverse usually includes a shimmer (AKA glistening) ink in their standard 65ml/15ml packs. Some more multishaders would have been really nice, too.
Colors
As I said above, the debut Colorvent could definitely use some more color variety as well.
| Colorvent | Inkvent 2019 | |
|---|---|---|
| Pink | 1 | 0 |
| Burgundy | 0 | 1 |
| Red | 2 | 4 |
| Orange | 1 | 1 |
| Yellow/Gold | 2 | 1 |
| Green | 1 | 3 |
| Teal/Turq | 5 | 2 |
| Blue | 6 | 5 |
| Purple | 1 | 2 |
| Brown | 1 | 4 |
| Black/Gray | 4 | 2 |
I know that the blue family is highly popular among ink users, but this calendar had 11 — 45.83% — blue, teal, and turquoise inks. Then there were four black and gray inks, leaving just 9 days divided over the other colors.
The “Dupes”
Below, you’ll find an easy reference so you don’t have to click through the separate blog posts to find the best match ink names. As there were multiple days with almost matches that were just too light or too dark, I’ll list those italicized. If you want to see the comparison swabs, you can click through to the corresponding post.
Possible matches that I didn’t test are provided in a bulleted list under any given ink. They are either ones I saw others mention as similar inks — in which case I link to the mention — or inks I couldn’t get a sample of. I’m providing them here for you to consider. Keep in mind, I haven’t compared them to the Colorvent inks, so I don’t know how accurate these are.
If you have a possible match suggestion, let me know so I can add it to this list.
- Supergiant – Pen BBS Frost’s Descent
- Edge of Night – Robert Oster Blue Martini
- Moonlit Veil – Kaweco Smokey Grey
- Sailing Stones – Colorverse White Sands & Wearingeul Anubis
- Lennon Tool Bar Brown Sugar
- Rosette Nebula – Kyo-Iro Cherry Blossom of Keage
- Diamine Mulled Wine
- Kilonova – Krishna Golden Summer Blue and Diamine Sargasso Sea
- Colorverse Quasar
- Noodler’s Baystate Concord Grape
- Rover – Colorverse Gold Rush
- Monteverde Black Documental
- Graf von Faber-Castell Stone Grey
- Blue Moon – No match found
- Red Horizon – Wearingeul Human Problems
- Aquarius Whispers – No match found
- DaVinci Glow – No match found
- Sunbeam – Diamine Fortune’s Gold
- Neptune Occultation – Diamine Regency Blue
- Pulsar Pulse – Robert Oster Fire & Ice
- Brinicles – Diamine Subzero
- Eclipse Silence – Diamine Solstice
- NGC 2264 – Diamine Mistletoe and Monarca Nopal
- Morning Glow – No match found
- Milky Way – Diamine Raise a Glass & Taccia Murasaki
- White Hole – Jacques Herbin Les Toits de Paris
- Giant Sunspot – Monteverde Fire Opal
- Portuguese Meteor – Diamine Soft Mint
- Dante’s Cosmology – Sailor Ink Studio 343 & Sailor Manyo Kakitsubata
- Christmas Star – Ink Institute Puffin’s Beak
Other Colorvent Series
While there certainly weren’t as many Colorvent series as there were Inkvent ones, here are a few fun series of posts you may not have seen:
- blekkskvett (Instagram): Intro | 1-4 | 5-8 | 9-12 | 13-16 | 17-20 | 21-24
- Chris Saenz (YouTube): 1-8 | 9-20 | 21-24
- leksa.writes (Instagram): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24
- my dandelion diaries (YouTube): Playlist
- pen.pipot (Instagram): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17-22 | 23 | 24
- The Wet Pen (YouTube): Playlist
Thanks for reading to the end, I hope you enjoyed my post. What did you think of the debut Colorvent calendar? Let me know in the comments! I’d love to hear from you.
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