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Today I’m reviewing a sample of Diamine Green Umber It’s an interesting green, with added blue (and brown in the chroma test.) I think green umber is a good description of the colour. I found it had good flow while I was writing with it. I didn’t see any spread or feathering, nor any woolly line. When I first started writing the review form I had just filled the cleaned pen. It became slightly darker in colour when left in the pen for a few hours. At first I found it looked less saturated but after a while it looked more and more saturated, especially with my broader nibs. It also exhibited nice shading that was more noticeable with the fine nib. When I came to do ink comparison tests with other inks, I found that I didn’t have an ink that was the same colour. So it was an unusual coloured ink to write with. Green Umber is an old natural earth colour, and it fits it’s description very well. Overall I found it behaved very well, and I like it. I didn’t experience any clogging or clean-up problems with it. This isn't sold as a waterproof ink, and it has no water resistance.Bearing in mind the review form paper I use is thick with a quite shiny surface at 100gsm, and I used several different nibs, this ink took 12-15 secs secs to dry. No smear after dry.It exhibited good flow and I found it reasonably smooth to write with. I saw no skips or hard starts while I did swabs and dry time tests.It is currently available in 80ml glass bottles or 30ml plastic bottles.Diamine sell it directly to end-users on their web-site.It's a reasonable price.​ Chroma test