Dark Green Ink?

[Runnin_Ute]

Diamine Sherwood Green

[athenian]

I still think of Diamine Graphite as a (very) dark green ink.

[haziz]

Another vote for J. Herbin Vert Empire.

[bone215]

darkest green i have seen is Diamine Evergreen. Very Dark. Maybe it is just my bottle?

 

Am I wrong here:

It sounds like ink consistency is a variable in the market place, subject to changes in formulations, contents, etc with little to no warning from manufacturers. There appears to be some very different reactions to the same color that I get confused. It feathers badly for one person, but not another. It sucks, its great, etc.

 

What causes this?

Edited March 8, 2014 by bone215

[Steffen Larsen]

There appears to be some very different reactions to the same color that I get confused. It feathers badly for one person, but not another. It sucks, its great, etc.

 

What causes this?

 

It depends very much on paper, pen and pressure.

 

For example I have put some Diamine 'Salamander' into a Georg Jensen pen (Sterling silver and bordeuax lacquer, 18K gold and titanium nib, wonderfully pretty and stylish) and writing on the yellow Rhodia Legal pad it becomes almost black instead of the yellow-brownish olive seen on the dotpad or using another pen.

 

Some inks separate and become bicolor on hard coated paper. Such as Visconti 'Blue' and Diamine 'Sargasso Sea' or 'Majestic Blue' on Rhodia or some Clairefontaine, very nearly unusable with their nasty red smudgy sheens and exaggerated shading. But they look constistent and stately with impressive gravitas on matte paper, such as Clairefontaine DCP.

And again other inks show feather and bleed through on matte DCP but a great solid line on smooth coated paper.

 

Even the Clairefontaine DCP white and ivory show differences.

 

I simply couldn't enjoy Waterman 'Absolute Brown'. Then I put it into a Georg Jensen sterling ciselé (prettiest pen ever made, much like the Parker '75, except it's a crosshatch) with a Fine steel nib on the Rhodia Legal, and I wonder what I ever saw wrong in it.

Edited March 8, 2014 by Steffen Larsen

[lapis]

I like the colour of Diamine's Evergreen... but... it is the driest Diamine I've ever tried... at least... not after just having filled the pen but after having left the pen lying in peace (with the cap on, of course, for a couple of days)... it unmistakebly then has ignition problems... in any pen...

 

Mike