Inky T O D - Color Swatches - Brown - Please Post Your Pictures And Tell Us Your Thoughts

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

An EF nib isn't the best to show off Diamine Macassar.

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

My card for Diamine Macassar, on Rhodia 80g/m paper.

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

My card for Diamine Chocolate Brown, on Clairefontaine 90g/m.

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

I don't like how the card for CB came out. The fish here is a better demonstration.

Diamine Chocolate Brown.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

This was supposed to be a narwhal, but he forgot his horn at home. Some days you just forget things like that.

Generic F nib, Rohrer & Klingner Sepia, Rhodia 80g/m.

[uceroy]

Currently my only brown 😂

[amberleadavis]

Awesome additions.

[minddance]

I have not paid attention to this before but now that I need to know the difference between Diamine Macassar and Chocolate Brown, it is v good to see them placed side by side, or rather up-down.

 

thank you.

[ErrantSmudge]

Robert Oster Dark Chocolate

 

This ink really does look like dark chocolate. On rare occasions, it also looks like a dusky purple which is what I think it its base color. (On my screen, this scan is more purplish than in real life).

 

Edited December 28, 2018 by ErrantSmudge

[amberleadavis]

Nice.

[DrScholl]

Oohh I just discovered this topic and read through the 20 pages drooling.

I love browns (and sepia and greys and murky greens stop).

 

Here's a post I wrote on the French forum www.stylo-plume.org when comparing 5 Japanese pens and a German one, with the same papers and ink, the latter being Iroshizuku tsukushi. I don't recall having seen it in this topic.

Here's the link to the original post for the numerous fluent readers of French gobbledygook around here Well mainly I compare the nibs' respective merits, in all subjectivity of course.

http://lezardblues.free.fr/stylos/4_japonais/4PJ_1_800.png

http://lezardblues.free.fr/stylos/4_japonais/4PJ_2_800.png

 

http://lezardblues.free.fr/stylos/4_japonais/Platinum_tsukushi.jpg



"Papier pelure" (2nd and 4th pages) can be translated, I think, into onion skin paper (you know the stuff we made carbon copies from with typewriters in the last century). Correct me if I'm wrong. To me it is comparable to Tomoe River paper though it is thinner yet, it offers a lovely writing experience and makes the nibs "sing" a little. I made stocks of it in my work as an archivist, sorting dusty records and all that, though, alas, these stocks are now depleting ...

 

 

[pgcauk]

I wouldn't say I "like" it - but I have had De Atramentis' York Brown in continual use since I first stumbled on it (their Umber too!). Haven't encountered anything else like it - a cool brown (not quite greenish, but heading there) that takes me back to the 1970s! Great in combination with greens - on big floral curtains!

Edited February 23, 2019 by pgcauk

[pgcauk]

Oh . . . . and I finally picked up "Grain in the Beard"!

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/343889-grain-in-the-beard/

 

In other news . . . . love my Macassar, Burnt Sienna, R&K Sepia, Cacao Du Bresil . . .

. . . . still puzzling over Doyou (or Doyoun't?), and the equally mysterious KWZ Hunter Green (there is no green on any paper I've seen, but it's like straying from the path in the forest on a moonless night - the ducks don't stand a chance, but I'm also worried for the hunter!!) . . .

. . . . and whenever Christmas rolls around, Rustic Brown is my go-to for cardage.

[pgcauk]

. . . . Oh, and I have one pen permanently dedicated to Rouille D'Ancre, which may be a "Gentleman's Pink", but appears very Brown looking if it comes up against anything else of the pink variety (Kobe #54 a little browner?).
. . . . and while I don't enjoy writing with Terre De Feu, once you apply a wash, a lovely coral peeks out, which I haven't found a match for elsewhere?

 

Thank you and goodnight!

[pgcauk]

Cool Browns were my Winter obsession - moving out of it now it's Spring but here's one more:

The (intended to be a) chestnut is Stipula Verde Muschiato, the Acorn De Atramentis' York Brown, the leaf De Atramentis' Marone (I asked Dr. Janssen about the re-naming and he sent me a new bottle of Marone that was still this GreyBrown [albeit without the green tinge?!?]), the hot drink (the always surprising!) Robert Oster Khakhi (spelling is important!) and the main image is as labelled.

Edited May 2, 2019 by pgcauk

[Inky-Republic]

I've bunched the yellows, golds, and browns together. It may be too much, but the colors are fun!

 

 

 

 

 

Hi, I just loved Peikan/Edelstein Amber - but they only made the brew for one year.

 

On my screen however, your Noodler's Apache Sunset swatch looks to be a very similar tone and colour. Is this the case in reality?

[amberleadavis]

No, NAS is really orangy and Edelstein Amber is more brown.

[pgcauk]

Greenish browns are my preference, but here's some reddish ones:

n.b. I had to take a photo as the scanner saw something completely different!

[amberleadavis]

You are doing great stuff!

[pgcauk]

Having spent forever in GreenishBrownland, here's some interesting Russets:

Sometimes Oxblood looks purplish, but here (and in comparison to Rustic) it shows orange?!
The KWZ is quite something! Oh, the top two inks are both Diamines, I just wrote KWZ twice as I was trying to get the ink to run dry, which it eventually did by the word Red . . . . it was worth the wait!

 

p.s. That Robert Oster Dark Chocolate looks like quite something too - is it just me who has trouble with the names getting in the way of the colors with these things?

Edited June 5, 2019 by pgcauk