Sailor x BlueBlack Matcha Latte - 4ml Fountain Pen Ink Sample
Sailor x BlueBlack Matcha Latte - 4ml Fountain Pen Ink Sample
Details
Hue: A muted olive/matcha green. It's yellow-olive in the written line and a deeper moss green where it pools. It's often described as a grassy green with brown undertones, but on my swatches it reads more olive than grassy, and the "brown" shows up mainly as a dark plum-brown edge on heavy pools.
Shading: Good. The pen bar and handwriting move clearly between a light yellow-green and a deeper olive.
Sheen: A plum-maroon edge where the ink pools heavily. I didn't see any in the written line.
Shimmer: None.
Flow: Medium
The interesting bit: Sailor made this exclusively for BlueBlack, a pen shop in Seoul, as part of their Drink Series. There are 16 inks in the series, each named after a drink, from Cherry Coke to Misutgaru, a Korean roasted-grain drink. The bottle label spells it "Malcha Latte", which is the Korean romanisation of 말차 (matcha). The label also carries a drippy matcha-cup illustration.
This is a hand-decanted 4ml sample vial from my own bottle.
Photos are my own swatches on Tomoe River Paper.
I'm a collector and I'm always happy to talk ink, so please message me if you have any questions.
Postage
Royal Mail or Evri, your choice at checkout, from £1.90. Free over £20. Dispatched within 2 working days. UK only for now.
Returns
Change your mind within 14 days and I'll refund you, including standard outbound postage. Return postage is yours unless something's wrong. Opened vials can only be refunded in part. Full details in my refund policy.
What you're getting
A 4ml vial, hand-decanted by me from my own bottle. Swatch photos are mine, on Tomoe River paper. Colours vary with paper, nib and screen, so treat them as a good guide rather than an exact match.