De Atramentis Black / Brown Ink

[visvamitra]

De Atramentis fountain pen inks are hand made in Germany by Dr. Franz-Josef Jansen, and come in a 35ml glass bottle. The company has been producing inks for about 30 years so there is a proven track record here. These inks are said to be hand made – the entire production process is done manually in the manufacturing center. The thing that influence their quality and, sadly, price is the fact that Dr. jansen uses only dyes from well established german companies like BASF.

 

De Atramentis inks are sold in 35 ml glass bottles. I enjoy the way this bottle look and I find them practical. Some of DA inks come in black glass that’s supposed to protect the ink from light.

 

I enjoy trying products of smaller companies, especially the ones that creators put a lot of heart and energy in developing their business and products. I believe Dr. Jansen is such a person. He’s developed literally hundreds of inks indifferent categories. I’ve tried just a small quantity of his inks. I’ve enjoyed some and disliked some. It’s normal. I'm still eager to get to know most of DA inks.

 

De Atramentis inks are grouped into categories like Standard inks, Document inks, Black Edition inks. Also on De ATramentis website you can find a lot of topic related inks (places, signs of zodiac, history, business, music, literature etc.). Most of them are renamed standard inks.

 

Black Brown is strongly saturated reddish brown ink. I'm not really keen on this color. The characteristics are mostly nice - excellent flow and nice lubrication make writing enjoyable even in drier nibs. Sadly the ink tends to feather strongly on some papers (crappy ones like Moleskine and some Leuchtturm notebooks).

Ink splash

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

 

 

Software ID

Color range

Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

Leuchtturm 1917, Lamy 2000, OB

Oxford, Lamy 2000, OB

Kokuyo Campus Myo,

Water resistance

[cattar]

Enjoy your reviews, and I like this color, a dark, dark burgundy.

Unfortunate, the feathering.

[visvamitra]

You're right - on some papers it almost looks like very dark burgundy brown. On others more brown.

[T4TEXAS]

Thanks for the excellent review, as usual. Don't care for it, oddly, because it seems I should based on my taste in colors. Maybe if it was a little blacker.

[lapis]

Yup, too red for me. But thanks for the review. It's always good to get to know more and more about De A's spectrum.

[lgsoltek]

Not my kind of colour. But I appreciate a wet and smooth ink.

[mmg122]

This is definitely my kind of color! Really like red leaning browns. Sure does feather though...which turns me right off. Thanks for another insightful review, Vis.

 

Mary

[fountainpagan]

Great reaview, as allways. Thank you, Vis.

 

My kind of colour, yes. But the feathering... no.

[mehandiratta]

aaaah... y it had to feather...

 

and also color is more like burgundish