Color Traveler - Hiroshima Lemon

Color Traveler Hiroshima Lemon Yellow - Ink Drop

Today, I’m happy to be looking at Hiroshima Lemon Yellow from Color Traveler. Color Traveler is the in-house ink brand of Tayama Bungu, a 120-year old stationery store based in Hiroshima. Hiroshima Prefecture, with its 142 islands, is Japan’s largest producer of lemons.

Shading and depth of color

The color of this ink represents the fresh greenish yellow of a just ripe lemon. Visually, this is a medium-chartreuse, a balanced blend of yellow and green. On some papers, the yellow qualities are more dominant, while others nurture the greens. As the splatter shows, areas of pooling dry to a rich, olive green. This is also a nice shading ink, though, and light areas add sunshine accents in the form of yellow stroke highlights. This is a very attractive ink!

Nice yellows and greens!

As a writing ink, I found Hiroshima Lemon Yellow to be moderately wet, with a nice, smooth flow. It excels on most coated premiums, where strokes were clean and sharp. On uncoated premiums, it suffered a bit from micro-feathering and bleed. Surprisingly, it performed fairly well on good office copy, however. Shading was moderate overall, and there was no halo. Drying was 20-25 seconds on premiums, and 5 seconds on office copy.

Color Traveler Hiroshima Lemon’s swatch card

I really like Color Traveler inks, and the beautiful boxes include a glass dropper and a travel vial, which is the icing on top! Hiroshima Lemon Yellow probably isn’t for the office, but it’s a lovely, unusual color, and very usable, overall. If you can pair it with the right paper, you’ll enjoy this color’s verve and personality!