Two of my favorite things: Colorverse ink and anything featuring my hometown: Chicago… how could I resist? If I were to guess what color someone might create for an ink that embodies Chicago, I am not sure I would guess a dark purple/brown with shimmer particles. I might have thought of the sky blue from the stripes on the city flag, or red to emulate the Fire/fire. Green for the St. Patrick’s Day river dye? Charcoal grey for the color of some of the more recognizable skyscrapers (Sears/Willis Tower, the Hancock building, or the Lake Point Tower)? Once I started playing with the ink, I was more convinced that Colorverse made an interesting choice for a color to embody Chicago.

The shimmer particles in the Chi-Town ink ($12.50 for a 15ml) are more iridescent than gold or silver which is more commonly found in shimmer inks. The particles look blue or green depending on the light, paper or angle.

In the close-up above the ink looks more purply than it did in person which, because of the gold/brown sheen looks more brown in person, at least to me. YMMV.

You can ssee in the close-up above how the ink can look sheen-y brown-black rather than purple.

My initial ink comparisons aligned CHi-Town with dark brown inks but on second look, I tried purple and more predominately black inks. I think its safe to say that Chi-Town is more of a purple/black with an emphasis on the BLACK.

Pent Kotobo No Iro Black Lizard and Diamine Winter Miracle are more purply when compared to Chi-Town. Birmingham Pen Co’s Philadelphia Friend Circuit and Coking Coal are closer though Coking Coal is a cooler blue grey undertone and Fried Circuit has a warmer, almost brownish undertone.

So, like the city of Chicago itself, this ink is a conundrum. Some people see Chicago as “the second city” some city it as the jewel of the midwest. The ink is similar. You see what you want to see. Some will see shimmer like taillights on wet pavement, others will see muddy waters or the dark sky of a crowded city. How do you see Chicago? Both the ink and the city?

Tools:

• Paper: Rhodia Uni-Blank No. 16 with 6mm guide sheet
• Pens: Midori bullet pencil modified dip nib holder with Zebra G titanium nib ($33.50 per 10-pack), Acrylic dip nib pen (Approx. $15), James Finniss Serendipity nib holder ($79AUD)
• Swatches: Col-o-Ring Ink Testing Book ($10) & Col-o-dex Rotary Cards ($15)
• Brush: Silverwhite 1500s  Round #2

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Blizzard Twinkle is an icy, turquoise blue with silver shimmer. It looks cold and icy in the bottle — like the color of those icy pops in the plastic tubes we used to get at the 7-11 when we were kids.

The color does remind me of twilight skies and snowy nights.

On Col-o-dex cards, with a dip nib, the shimmer is very vivid.

The big bonus with Blizzard Twinkle is that it is a trifecta ink: shimmer, shading AND sheening! Depending on how much the ink is shaken or settled in your pen, how much pressure you apply, if you are dipping with a flex nib, etc — all three effects will be revealed. The color will shade from a deep teal to turquoise. Sheen will appear along the edges of letterforms or where ink pools to a red-almost-purple. The silver shimmer can be visible with wider nibs and dip pens. The more ink on the page, the more shimmer will be visible. More is more!

When comparing Blizzard Twinkle to other shimmery blue inks, I pulled a small selection of turquoise-to-teal inks. Some have gold shimmer and some have silver shimmer. I am sure there are more options but these were the ones I could find (Where are all my swatches!?!?).

Pen BBS No. 338 Guardians of Good Fortune and Blizzard Twinkle are similar in color but No. 338 uses gold shimmer instead of silver. Robert Oster Morning Shine is more greenish but does have silver sheen.

I was able to find a few more shimmery blue inks in my Col-o-ring cards. Diamine Jack Frost certainly has more visible sheen but its an entirely different shade of blue. The other shimmery blues I found from  Diamine were also distinctly different hues. So, at the moment, I feel like Blizzard Twinkle is filling a nice gap in the ink color/shimmer rainbow.

Hope you have a shimmery holiday!

Tools:

• Paper: Rhodia Uni-Blank No. 16 with 6mm guide sheet and Elia Notebook with 68gsm Tomoe River paper (RM145.00 MYR)
• Pens: Midori bullet pencil modified dip nib holder with Zebra G titanium nib ($33.50 per 10-pack), Acrylic dip nib pen (Approx. $15), Pensive Pens Serendipity hybrid dip pen ($79 AUD)
• Swatches: Col-o-Ring Ink Testing Book ($10) & Col-o-dex Rotary Cards ($15)
• Brush: Scharff 3000 Fineline Round #3 ($34.50 — my favorite paintbrush)
• Ink:  Birmingham Pens Blizzard Twinkle ($29 for 60ml bottle)

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Lady Rose in Gold is one of those not-quite-brown, not-quite-pink inks PLUS it has wonderful gold shimmer in it that makes it truly unique.

The rosy color is definitely that of old rose petals and the gold shimmers like the rim of a fancy tea cup. This ink totally remind me of a set of vintage floral tea cups.

When writing with a finer nib, I see less of the shimmer but all of the faded rose color of old wallpaper. This ink is all Miss Havisham vibes — at least to me.

On Tomoe River 68gsm paper, the ink does tend to look a little lighter but it still has that feeling of a well-loved heirloom, a faded, ditzy print quilt or the sun faded cover of an old book.

Trying to find a pinkish ink with shimmer in my ink collection was more challenging than I expected. I realize with almost 1000 inks in my collection that’s hard to believe but its true! I even hunted for non-shimmer pinks and I had nothing like it at all. I suspect that part of the appeal of Lady Rose in Gold is that it is so unlike anything else in my ink collection.

I guess, my advice regarding inks like Ferris Wheel PressLady Rose in Gold, is not necessarily to give in to FOMO but, if you see something that truly speaks to you, invest in it. Yes, I’ve bought lots of inks just because it was the “in thing” to get at a pen show but sometimes, something crosses my path that just feels right. When that happens to you, my advice is to buy it, before its gone.

Tools:

• Paper: Rhodia Uni-Blank No. 16 with 6mm guide sheet and Elia Notebook with 68gsm Tomoe River paper (RM145.00 MYR)
• Pens: Midori bullet pencil modified dip nib holder with Zebra G titanium nib ($33.50 per 10-pack), Acrylic dip nib pen (Approx. $15), Pensive Pens Serendipity hybrid dip pen ($79 AUD)
• Swatches: Col-o-Ring Ink Testing Book ($10) & Col-o-dex Rotary Cards ($15)
• Brush: Scharff 3000 Fineline Round #3 ($34.50 — my favorite paintbrush)
• Ink:  Ferris Wheel Press Lady Rose in Gold ($20 for 38ml bottle – no longer available)

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On Col-o-Ring paper:

I did several samples with the new Cloud Gate ink. On Col-o-Ring cards and the Oversize notebook, the ink is a very cool grey with a lot of evidence of the gold shimmer particles. When the ink was wet, the shimmer particles weren’t as noticeable as when the ink dried. Once dry, the shimmer particles were very easy to see especially on Col-o-Ring and Tomoe River paper.

When the ink pools in any way, the shimmer is much more visible.

I love how the shimmer looks when the light hits the ink.

On Tomoe River Paper:

On Tomoe River paper, the ink still shades a lot but is a little more neutral grey, the evidence of the blues and purples was not as evident.

Again, when the ink pools, the shimmer is really evident.

Ink Color Comparison:

When compared to other shimmer inks, the closest comparison would probably be J. Herbin 1670 Stormy Grey though Stormy Grey doesn’t have the multi-color range that Cloud Gate has. Diamine Snowstorm is  lighter and has silver shimmer rather than gold and Diamine Solstice is darker and features multi-chroma shimmer. On the furthest ends of the photo above is Starry Ink Lunar Halo which ends up looking much more brown (warmer dark) grey and features gold shimmer too while the Colorverse Glistening Anti-Matter is much more purply pink.

Final Thoughts:

The fact that Cloud Gate is (I think) Papier Plume’s first shimmer ink, and it’s a multi-chroma and a limited edition if you are an ink collector, this is a must-have. If you are new to shimmer inks, since this is Papier Plume’s first foray, the shimmer volume and particle size has not been thoroughly tested for flow and cleaning so it may not be the best place to start though I’ve not had issues with any of Papier Plume’s non-shimmer inks. However, I recommend new-to-shimmer to proceed with caution.

How Can I Buy This Ink?

The Cloud Gate ink will premiere at the pen show on Friday, October 1 and available at the Papier Plume booth. Any bottles left over after the show closes will be available for purchase online the following Monday, October 4, 2021.

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I had not heard anything about izumi before this. The store is in the UK which brings to mind overseas shipping costs. However, even for international shipping, the price is 11 pounds ($15.50 at the moment) which feels reasonable for distance.

In the bottle, the ink appears reddish orange with plenty of sparkle. LOTS of sparkle. One interesting observation – the sparkle seems to be present in more than one slake size. As the larger particles settle, a very fine sparkle stays suspended in the ink.

The ink only looks reddish in the bottle. On a Col-o-ring card, it is PINK. A bright bubblegum pink that leans just a bit towards blue.

Pink Rose Gold is a bit darker than ColorVerse Girls Just Wanna and a bit more blue than Private Reserve Rose Rage. Diamine Cerise is the closest, but Pink Rose Gold doesn’t have the sheen you find in Cerise.

I used a JOWO 1.5 stub in a Woodshed Pens pink ribbon demonstrator as an eyedropper. Pink was everywhere.

I found that the sparkle in Pink Rose Gold is quite dependent on the lighting and angle of the page to that lighting. In the photo below, I have tried to show what the page looks like with non-direct lighting.

But angle the same writing towards the light and it shines.

I noticed that the sparkle stays in the ink much longer than other sparkle inks, even others from de Atramentis. Typically, the first line of writing with a sparkle ink contains the shine but the sparkle is gone halfway down the page. Pink Rose Gold had sparkle during this whole page. This page is in a Cosmo Air Light notebook from Musubi.

I had to see just how much sparkle I could get in big drops.

In the right lighting, it is super shiny! While the ink was still wet, it was difficult to tell the color of the sparkle. Once dry in these large drops, though, the coppery rose gold is obvious. A small amount of feathering occurred at the edges of the drops but the ink didn’t bleed through the page! Plus one for Cosmo Air Light paper.

On Tomoe River paper, there was no feathering, but the bubblegum pink was slightly less saturated.

The sparkle was still everywhere, though.

Overall, Pink Rose Gold was not what I was expecting from a sparkle ink. The particles stayed suspended much longer than other sparkly inks I have tried but I never experienced the dry writing or clogging I have seen in other inks. In fact, I’ve had it in my pen for over a week now and have yet to see even a slow start.

For me, that means I will absolutely use the ink often, although I will keep it to large nibs and use it only in pens that are easy to clean out. One small note of caution – this sparkle will stick to facing notebook pages and your fingers even after the ink is dry!

I loved the personalized note included with this bottle of ink, complete with a store sticker. I look forward to seeing the future of izumi!

• Swatch Cards: Col-o-ring cards (100 for $10)
• Paper: Musubi Tomoe River Folio and Musubi Cosmo Air Light Folio (Approximately $35 for 384 pages and $25 for 208 pages)
• Ink: izumi Pink Rose Gold ink by de Atramentis (10.95 pounds ($15.50) for 45mL)

DISCLAIMER: The items included in this review were provided free of charge for the purposes of this review by izumi Pen Store. Please see the About page for more details.

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Tono & Lims is a Japanese company and the ink line is produced in collaboration with a South Korean ink producer, Lim’s Lab. Maboroshi is a limited edition offering, described as red with a hint of shimmer.

Maboroshi literally translates to “phantom,” but I also saw it translated as a “trick of light.” Sort of an apt description for a shimmer ink right? So let’s get down to the nitty gritty.

The ink is slightly less saturated than I was expecting. It is a pinkish red, redder in darker applications and sort of a light watermelon red/pink in lighter applications. I can see the shimmer very slightly on the Col-o-Dex card but the only place it really shows up is in those ink splotches that I love. As far as I can see, it doesn’t show up much at all in my writing samples, but I am using a fairly thin nib to do those. I did shake the bottle before I started, but there was “dust” on the bottom of the bottle so I would imagine it does settle slightly.

In terms of color comparison, it reminded me instantly of Pen BBS #220, Watermelon Red. It seems closest in tone to Pilot Iroshizuku Momiji, although it feels a touch lighter and more pink. Aside from the pink vs. orange tone, it’s very similar in saturation and shimmer to Pen BBS #140, Bloom, which also has a bit of iridescent sparkle in it.

This particular ink feels like a bit of a dryer ink. I suspect I won’t use it as much as I had hoped if only because it’s a bit lighter than I expected in thinner nibs. However, it’s a gorgeous color if it’s what you’re looking for!

• Papers: Crossfield Journal ($24.00) and Ghost Paper Notebook ($25)
• Pen: Delike Glass Signature Pen ($37.80)
• Swatches: Col-o-Ring Ink Testing Book ($10) and Col-o-Dex Rotary Cards ($15)
• Inks: Tono & Lims Kaleidoscope Maboroshi (30mL for $22)

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I would have assumed there was a good shimmery red in last year’s Diamine Inkvent calendar but, alas, there was not. Blood Rose, with a different name, might have made a good holiday addition. Maybe for Inkvent 2021?

On close inspection, it’s easy to see the silvery shimmer of the Blood Rose ink, shown above on Tomoe River paper.

Even in my writing sample, the shimmer is visible, so much so that it overshadows any possible shading or sheen.

On William Hannah blank paper, the rosy pink is more evident in the ink. Overall, flow performance of the ink is pretty good. Blood Rose is a smoother, wetter ink than many Oster inks which is a pleasant change.

Compared to other shimmer inks and standard inks, the pinky undertones of Blood Rose become more apparent. Ancient Charm Phoenix Seeking Mate has a similar base ink but uses gold shimmer instead of silver. Robert Oster Rivers of Blood appears to be the same base ink color without the shimmer. Ancient Charm Song of the Wanderer is a deeper magenta with a gold shimmer. Diamine Matador is a more true red, almost a touch on the orange-y side.

Lined up above from top to bottom, Diamine Matador, Ancient Charms Song of the Wanderer, Robert Oster Rivers of Blood and Ancient Charms Phoenix Seeking Mate, then Robert Oster Blood Rose.

It’s much easier to see the color differences above. I just don’t have many shimmer reds in my collection to compare Blood Rose against but I think this combination of shimmer and traditional inks provides a good range.

If you need to add a little sparkle into your holiday season, Robert Oster Shimmy & Shake Blood Rose is a lovely option.

Tip:

Like all shimmer inks, continually moving the ink around in the bottle or pen will help to keep the shimmer particles evenly distributed. I recommend rolling your pen on the table, not shaking it. If you’re planning to use a shimmer ink with a dip pen, transfer a bit to a smaller vessel and stir it regularly as you use it.

Tools:

• Paper: William Hannah A5 (£6.00 for 50-sheets) with 7mm guide sheet, Curnow Backpack Notebook with Ink Journal Ink Collecting Guide Sheet (FREE)
• Pens: James Finniss Serendipity Hybrid Pen ($79AUD) and Franklin-Christoph with Fine Italic nib, Tachikawa dip nib holder ($7.75 and up) with Zebra G titanium nib ($33.50 per 10-pack) and Toronto Pen Company PENtastic CxPO Tester Pens (set of 2 for $40CAD), Kemmy’s Labo Corset Glass Pen ($35)
• Swatches: Col-o-Ring Ink Testing Book ($10) & Col-o-dex Rotary Cards ($15)
• Brush: Princeton Watercolor Round #8 brush
• Ink:  Robert Oster Shake & Shimmer Blood Rose ($24 for 50ml bottle)

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There’s only one way to truly show off shimmer/sparkle/pearlescent inks and that’s with video. I apologize for the 25-minute long video but its not my fault that deAtramentis decided to release 40 colors in their new line of Pearlescent inks. There’s ten different colors of ink on four different sparkle/pearlescent bases. The ten colors are whisky brown, amber yellow, camellia, magenta red, heliogreen, brilliant violet, cyan blue, indian blue, columbia blue, and velvet black. Each color has been released with a gold pearlescent, silver pearlescent, copper pearlescent and bronze pearlescent base. So far.

I didn’t have all 40 of the deAtramentis samples, only about 26 of them but that’s still a serious sampling that will give you a good idea of what these inks colors look like across the bases. I was missing a lot of the copper and bronze versions unfortunately which are the most unique aspects of the deAtramentis line.

The best way to compare these colors is to show them side-by-side with Diamine Shimmer and J. Herbin 1670 colors.  I was missing a few of the Diamine Shimmer ink samples as well but again, I feel like I was able to get a pretty close comparison to the inks I had from deAtramentis.  I’m amazed at how many sparkle inks are on the market now.

From the blue range, you can see that Diamine Blue Lightning and deAtramentis Cyan Blue Silver are very similar. Both are a similar blue ink base with silver metallic flake. The deAtramentis has more of a reddish/magenta sheen. The Cyan Blue Gold loses the sheen because the gold flecks overpower the ink. I didn’t have the copper or bronze flecked versions of this color so I’m not sure if you’d lose the sheen on this color with those inks but its one of the more interesting ink colors because of the noticeable sheen.

J. Herbin’s Bleu Ocean stands apart in the blues for being noticeably more rich but I have a bottle from an early release of the color and it’s one of the runniest of the J. Herbin inks.

Diamine Shimmering Seas and deAtramentis Indian Blue Gold are very similar both being a blue-black with gold flecks. deAtramentis appears to have a bit more concentration of gold though. Diamine Blue Pearl and deAtramentis Columbia Blue Silver are also quite similar but I think Diamine’s version has a bit more visual interest. It got a deep burgundy sheen in the swatch and lots of sparkle in the writing sample.

In the magenta and purple range, deAtramentis Brilliant Violet with the silver and gold fleck I did not have a direct comparison though I suspect that Diamine Lilac Satin would be a close match for the Brilliant Violet Silver.  The deAtramentis Magenta Red Silver and Diamine Magenta Flash are similar magenta inks with a silver fleck but the ink colors are slightly different. The Diamine ink base is a  warmer pink, the deAtramentis a bit cooler purple/magenta. The Magenta Red Gold looks interesting in the swab swatch but the flecks had already started to settle in the vial when I started to do the lettering so some of the sparkle was already lost. I think the Magenta Red would be most interesting with the copper or bronze fleck.

Diamine Night Sky and deAtramentis Velvet Black Silver are both black ink bases with silver sparkle. Diamine Sparkling Shadow, deAtramentis Velvet Black Gold and J. Herbin Stormy Grey are all basically black/dark grey with gold flecks. Stormy Grey says its grey but always looks darker to me and Sparkling Shadow looks more grey. Diamine Purple Pazzaz is supposed to be purple but is very dark to me. Diamine has a brown in its shimmer line called Caramel Sparkle but I didn’t have a sample. I still think it wouldn’t hold a candle to J. Herbin’s Caroube de Chypre which has a green sheen as well as the gold sparkle on a warm brown ink.

Diamine Firestorm and deAtramentis Camellia (which is mislabelled on all the swatches) Red Silver are pretty close colors. Both are red ink bases with a silver fleck. To the right is the Camellia base ink with the copper fleck, I mislabelled the sample swatch. The copper adds more of an orangey tone to the color which makes it more unusual. The bronze fleck on the Camellia  reflects a ton of light and looks like a light gold and pretty much drowns out the color. Actually, with the Camellia Red on the swatches, the sparkle really overpowered the ink color. In the writing its a little less noticeable except in the bronze. On close inspection, I think Diamine Firestorm Red and Pink Glitz are the same ink base but Firestorm uses the silver fleck and Pink Glitz uses the gold fleck. Red Lustre is a deeper red with gold fleck best suited for Valentine’s, love letters and Christmas cards.

Diamine Brandy Dazzle is still an outstanding color. Since I’ve been watching Westworld lately (which is a bit of a mind-bending, horrific, albeit beautiful-in-its-own-way tv series) I envision some sort of parchment correspondence written in this color with the gold dust sparkle.  Red Lustre also reminds me of the landscape with the sunset dappling the mesas. Sorry for the tangent.

The Amber Yellows were the most disappointing. In general yellows are some of the hardest inks colors to do in the first place and, as you can see, these came out as badly as you might have expected. The four on the far left are the only ones worth talking about. The Whisky Browns from daAtramentis are not brown as much as they are actually amber. I think the Whisky Brown Copper is the most successful and probably of all the deAtramentis Pearlescent inks the one that will probably sell the best. The Whisky Brown Gold or Bronze bringing in a close second. Though next to Diamine Golden Sands, I think the Whisky Brown Bronze in the more interesting after the Copper.

I saved the best for last. I only had samples of the deAtramentis Heliogreen in Silver and Gold. I’d be curious if the copper or bronze base would be a curse or a blessing to the kelly green ink base. The green is very “Christmasy” in my opinion so if you have plans to address your holiday cards or packages, this might be a good candidate. Diamine’s Magical Forest has a deeper pine green cast with a silver fleck and definitely has a more woodland vibe. Diamine also offers a Golden Oasis which is a lime green ink with a gold fleck but I did not have a sample of that, hard as that might be to believe.

I know it might seem odd to include J. Herbin Rouge Hematite in the green category but my version (an earlier bottling) has a very distinct green beetle-shell sheen. It is the most unusual of all the “sparkle” inks although my version does not really sparkle (YMMV). I know that Rouge Hematite has been reformulated a couple times and I’m not sure where the formulation has landed or if there’s any way to tell depending on who you purchase from what version you might be getting. But I think from perusing a few web sites it looks like the results are pretty consistent to what I am showing. It is the first of the “shimmer” inks and it still remains the most interesting.

J. Herbin Emerald of Chivor is probably the most popular of all the shimmer inks and with good reason. It sheens like nobody’s business from a gorgeous dark turquoise teal blue to a magenta red then it pools gold fleck. Combine all of these factors and it creates a wonderful patina effect that almost makes a rainbow. Diamine Enchanted Ocean is a dark blue ink with silver shimmer which I did not have a swatch might come close to Emerald of Chivor but I’ve never heard anyone suggest it was much of a rival.

I still find Diamine inks to be consistently more dense. Other people might describe this as “drier” but I think of it as more viscous. It stays up on the page better. deAtramentis inks always seem more watery. And J. Herbin even more watery still. I would not use the term “wetter” because I feel that implies slicker. Like the case with my bottle (YMMV) of Bleu Ocean, it’s just watery. It tends to feather and bloop and behave as if I left water in my pen, nib or feed after cleaning my pen rather than an ink that was slick, lubricated or oily in consistency. If that makes sense? When I think of an ink being “dry” I think of it being chalky or being able to feel the micro-particles of pigment that make up the ink color. I would not say that about any of these inks, especially not Diamine. It has a smooth feel when writing, even in a dip nib and even with the metallic flakes.

So, after my lengthy explanation, I’m inclined to prefer the Diamine Shimmertastic inks for use over the other two brands. The particles of sparkle blend faster and more readily. Diamine offers a large but manageable range of colors.

I think 40+ metallic inks is way too many for deAtramentis to release at one time. I think that deAtramentis, in general, has a hard time keeping up with their massive ink inventory and have not been very good about releasing, promoting and restocking their existing colors. I also think they are a little late to the metallic ink party. I think the copper and bronze metallics is where they are doing something interesting but they should have focused their attention there. They should have done a few really great colors and done them well rather than flooding the market with tons of colors, some of which are really iffy. They made it really hard for anyone to know which colors to buy on which base and probably equally challenging for shops to figure out which colors to order. I suspect that there will be a few bottles of one or two of the more disappointing colors lingering on shop shelves and at pen shows for years to come.

So, if I were to recommend a few shimmer/pearl/sparkle inks to purchase or sample here’s my short list:

• deAtramentis Pearlescent Whisky Brown Copper
• deAtramentis Pearlescent Cyan Blue Silver
• J. Herbin 1670 Emerald of Chivor
• J. Herbin 1670 Rouge Hematite
• J. Herbin 1670 Caroube de Chypre
• Diamine Shimmertastic Brandy Dazzle
• Diamine Shimmertastic Blue Pearl
• Diamine Shimmertastic Sparkling Shadow
• Diamine Shimmertastic Red Lustre

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