(Susan M. Pigott is a fountain pen collector, pen and paperholic, photographer, and professor. You can find more from Susan on her blog Scribalishess.)
Starting near the end of November, my mom would start making Christmas cookies. She liked to make spritz cookies, carefully squeezing them through her cookie press, creating wreaths, Christmas trees, poinsettias, and candy canes. She’d decorate them with colored sugars, sprinkles, and bits of cherry. She made hundreds of cookies, and I inhaled the buttery treats with abandon. But one cookie I never remember her making was Gingerbread.
Gingerbread is the color for today. It is a tan-brown that evokes the ginger in Gingerbread cookies. Obviously it’s a darker brown than ginger itself. It definitely looks like the cinnamon-y color of Gingerbread men. This is a standard ink with nice shading properties.
On white Rhodia paper, the color is much more yellow-ish. It works well in all three nib sizes, but if you want to enjoy the shading, I recommend a flex nib and/or a broad nib.
Although my mom never made Gingerbread cookies, I’m a big fan of their flavor--the more gingery the better. I’m not as big a fan of this particular color in the Inkvent calendar. I think it’s a bit too light and yellow-leaning for me.
(Cult Pens provided the Diamine Inkvent Calendar to Pen Addict free of charge for review purposes.)
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