I couldn’t resist getting this Wonder Pens exclusive ink inspired by cat eyes.   Isn’t that just the cutest ink concept?  And they did such a great job with the colour! I would have gotten both cat eye inks, but I thought the other one was probably too close to my recently purchased Brilliant Mint, so I regretfully skipped it.

A swatch of Dominant Industry Tuna & Olives, an exclusive fountain pen ink for Wonder Pens. It’s an olive green standard ink.

Tuna and Olives is a nice olive green with a bit of shading.  In my dip pen it’s pretty dark, in the pilot metropolitan I use for work, it’s noticeably brighter, and it’s really pretty on the paintbrush too as well as being lighter again.

The top of a page of writing using the Tuna & Olives ink. The big lettering and doodles are done with a paintbrush and the rest is with the sailor fude dip pen I use for my swatches. The ink is consistently olive green, shading brighter into a more leafy green on the paintbrush. It shows some shading in the writing as well.

I really like the way it matches my new green pilot metropolitan.  Yes, two years later, I finally decided to buy a second one.  (I still want all the colours; I still don’t need all the colours.) I decided to get a medium nib for work, and I’m really happy with how it’s working out with both the pen and the ink.   I’ve found that I like having a clip on the pens in my work notebook, and I’m less excited about finicky sparkle inks because I often pull out the pen to make notes halfway through a meeting so if it blocks up when I can’t get up and rinse it easily I’m going to be miffed.  So a nice standard ink and a pretty pen is pretty ideal for this purpose.

Green Pilot Metropolitan Retro Pop on top of some unfinished todo list from May 15th in my work notebook.

This is my first ink from Dominant Industry.  They’ve got a cute bottle shape and comes in a cute little soft bag that presumably doubles as padding for shipping and also a way to keep your ink from getting exposed to light if you don’t like keeping the boxes around.  I like the little tag with their ink bottle on it.  It also came with a tiny pipette for filling pens, though I didn’t need it for the metropolitan or my dip pen.

Dominant Industry Tuna and Olives Ink swatch and bottle with packaging. The bottle has a rounded base that makes it look like a water droplet, there’s a bag with a picture of the bottle on the label, and a simple cardboard box. I’ve added a dot with an ink swatch to the side of the bottle, showcasing the olive green colour.

The closest ink I have it Diamine Pine Needle which is… really not very close.  They both have green and shading, but pine needle is a vibrant “new pine needle” kind of green and includes so much green shimmer that I can’t really use it in anything other than my Pelikan pens with extremely wet nibs.  Tuna and Olives is a duller olive green and I expect it’ll work in every pen I’ve got.

A comparison of two green fountain pen ink swatches: Diamine Pine Needle on top has green himmer and is a brighter new leaf green with shading, Dominant Industries Tuna & Olives is an olive ink with shading.

Normally this is the point where I say I’m excited to try this ink but that probably goes without saying since it’s already in a work pen!  I also picked up a second Wonder Pens exclusive colour while they had them in stock, so expect to see that swatched soon too!