What Is The Best Brown Ink In The Market?

[ConnallMac]

I love brown ink! My favorites are Levenger Cocoa for a rich, deep, dark brown and Private Reserve Copper Burst for a brighter, lighter brown. I just bought a bottle of PR Chocolat last weekend and it's growing on me as well.

[KCat]

Iroshizuku Tsukushi

 

Followed by MB Toffee which is a bit too red but behaves beautifully, just not as beautifully as the above.

[FlyFast]

J. Herbin Terre De Feu is currently in three of my pens. I love it!

[liapuyat]

Diamine Saddle Brown for a nice medium brown. Waterman Havana Brown for a red-brown. MB Toffee Brown for a nice shading brown.

[MicheleB]

Lie de The for light and Tsukushi for dark (got a little sheen to it).

[Guest Pjay]

Lie de The for light

 

+1 J, Herbin's Lie de The (tea colour) is the only brown ink I have at the moment, but I enjoy its shading variations with more flexible nibs.

 

BTW, it's surprising that this thread has not been moved, as it is not directly related to Pelikan pens...

[texaspenman]

Noodler's #41 Brown... a deep, rich, full brown color. No red undertones like Waterman's Havana Brown. Smooth writing and beautiful!

Edited February 5, 2011 by texaspenman

[Bo Bo Olson]

It depends on the width and flex of the nib...and paper too.

 

My Pelikan brown is very nice in regular flex nibs, a nice reddish brown.

In Semi-flex it is not so vibrant; it is a different tone of brown.

I have a similar experience with my MB Toffee, where the tones in regular flex lighter than in semi-flex.

 

Regular nib MB

Fine was light with dark trails.

Medium was 50-50

Broad was dark with light trails.

[dudaymd]

Lie de The for light

 

+1 J, Herbin's Lie de The (tea colour) is the only brown ink I have at the moment, but I enjoy its shading variations with more flexible nibs.

 

BTW, it's surprising that this thread has not been moved, as it is not directly related to Pelikan pens...

 

yup, my mistake, i started a new post about my pelikan level 5 yesterday and i forgot to move on to the inks portion of the forum . Being a bit new to FPN, I didn't know how to move it. I have J Herbin's Lie de the and I like it too.

[Roberto_Notecardo]

+1 Cafe des Iles. +1 PR Copper Burst. I used to really enjoy Waterman Havana until I tried these two.

[Dindi]

Pelikan Brilliant Brown is my fave. Rich color, nice shading. And it dries to the in-bottle color. Also, reportedly, the favorite of Hershey Foods. Yum!

[curiouslizard]

My red stripe 800 drinks Noodler's Walnut, a deep dark earthy chocolate brown. Really beautiful in a wet broad nib.

[lapis]

I like Grand Canyon the best.

 

Mike

[specialk0449]

Iroshizuku Tsukushi

Edited February 4, 2011 by specialk0449

[thoppen]

MB Toffee Brown for me!

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Herbin's Tea Dregs (sorry, Lie de The ) & Diamine Sepia are my current favourite browns, and also happen to be in the two pens I'm using the most at present.

[Bill D]

Lie de The for light

 

+1 J, Herbin's Lie de The (tea colour) is the only brown ink I have at the moment, but I enjoy its shading variations with more flexible nibs.

 

BTW, it's surprising that this thread has not been moved, as it is not directly related to Pelikan pens...

 

I have been a bit under the weather and fell behind in my duties. I will now move this from the Pelikan Nest to Inky Thoughts.

 

Bill

[TWRDO]

Noodler's Walnut is my favorite brown. I love the dark color, and it also happens to be the best behaved brown I've tried.

[Penman222]

I can recommend these three excellent brown inks that I use regularly. I always keep one pen inked with a brown ink, usually a Parker "51" or Vacumatic.

 

Dark Brown: Diamine Chocolate

Brown with reddish tint: Waterman Havana Brown

Lighter Brown: Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown

 

My next brown will probably be Noodler's #41 Brown.

Edited February 5, 2011 by bhbarto

[nvbrennan]

Not sure it's a brown but received a letter last year written in Visconti Sepia which looked lovely. Lots of shading in a 1.3mm stub. It was on a slightly cream paper which would have affected things but anyway, for what it's worth.