{"product_id":"colorverse-martian-4ml-fountain-pen-ink-sample","title":"Colorverse Martian - 4ml Fountain Pen Ink Sample","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHue:\u003c\/strong\u003e A deep brick red-orange. Colorverse and retailers describe it as a burnt or vibrant red-orange, and one description of a dark red-orange laying down with lighter dusty orange lines matches the writing sample closely. My swatches run a shade redder and earthier than \"orange\" suggests — heavy swabs read as rust and oxblood-brick rather than pumpkin — and there's a distinct amber-gold that separates out at the edges of drops and at the start of a swab bar, which the official copy doesn't mention. Written with a nib it lightens considerably to a warm rust-orange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShading: \u003c\/strong\u003eMedium to strong. Clear movement between dark brick in wet strokes and dusty orange in thinner ones, with noticeable chromatic separation to gold-amber at the edges of pooled ink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSheen:\u003c\/strong\u003e None.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShimmer:\u003c\/strong\u003e None.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlow:\u003c\/strong\u003e Medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe interesting bit:\u003c\/strong\u003e Martian is No. 71 in Colorverse's numbered catalogue and comes from Season 5, The Red Planet — a Korean-made set released in 2019, themed on Mars and paired in the box with a 15ml bottle of Life on Mars, a grey-green teal. The two colours are meant as a planetary pairing: the rusty iron-oxide surface everybody pictures when they think of Mars, and the hypothetical life on it. The bottle label carries a little astronaut and a lander, and Colorverse's whole house line is \"colorize your universe.\" The published colour reference for Martian is RGB 200, 78, 39.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a hand-decanted 4ml sample vial from my own bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePhotos are my own swatches on Tomoe River Paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eI'm a collector and I'm always happy to talk ink, so please message me if you have any questions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colorverse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57255383302470,"sku":null,"price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/9696\/1862\/files\/Colorverse-Martian3.jpg?v=1789307744","url":"https:\/\/thepensmuggler.co.uk\/products\/colorverse-martian-4ml-fountain-pen-ink-sample","provider":"The Pen Smuggler","version":"1.0","type":"link"}