Private Reserve - Neon Orange
Private Reserve - Neon Orange - Ink Drop
Please Note: I wasn’t able to perfectly capture the true brightness on this powerful ink. The shade and tone are accurate, but in person, it’s a brighter, more saturated, more striking orange. The ink in the bottle (final image) matches the intensity on paper. It’s a true neon!
Swatch and Strokes on Cosmo Air Light
Neon Orange is a deliciously creamy electric orange. Like most of the inks in Private Reserve’s Neon series, this ink is absolutely exploding with UV fluorescence.
Look at that UV Fluorescence!
This kind of glow could almost come with a nuclear warming! Make no mistake, though, I called it delicious for a reason. I think it’s a very appealing orange. It’s quite unusual, but for the right purposes, I can’t think of another fountain pen ink quite like it.
Color Range
Like Neon Pink and Neon Green, I see this as a specialty ink. For arts and editing, it has enormous potential. On off-white papers, it’s not quite as shocking. On bright white papers, the contrast is very high, and it can be too blinding for long writing. This ink excels for decorative accents, calling attention, and for highlighting text.
Clean Strokes on Rhodia
Experimenting with Private Reserve’s Neon series inks has definitely made me a believer in using fountain pens for highlighting! The benefits of replacing felt-tip highlighters with fountain pens are immediate. It doesn’t smudge the words you cover and is as translucent as you need. I think a couple of Pilot Parallel pens will have to be added to my shopping list, and they’ll be dedicated to highlighting!
Writing Samples
Neon Orange performs very well. It’s definitely a dry ink (more so than the other three I’ve tried from the series), but it writes reliably and dries quickly. There’s almost no show-through, and no feathering.
Ink Swatch Card
At US$12-15 for 60 ml bottles, the Neon series inks are a lot of fun. They aren’t going to be for every taste, but they really couldn’t be any more neon, and they give you exactly what you expect! The more I use them, the more potential I see!
Special thanks to Private Reserve and Yafa Brands for sending this ink, and several others over to try. As always, my reviews reflect my honest opinions. I only review pens and inks that I enjoy and have used extensively, and I always include both the positives and the negatives that I find.
In over 800 swatches, nothing I have really compares!
Neon Orange in the 60 ml Bottle