What's Your Favourite Diamine Ink?

[Stowford]

Hi All,

 

Recently came across a shop that seems to sell the whole range of Diamine Inks! The smaller bottles are relatively cheap and I'm thinking of getting one or two. Any good recommendations?

[sandy101]

Diamine Sapphire Blue & Imperial Purple are favourites of mine.

 

Diamine Ancient Copper looks good (just tried it) and the Monaco Red is growing on me (it's an iron ore red).

 

The Royal Blue & Majestic Blue are a bit plain to me, and the Sherwood Green is rather dry - at least it doesn't flow well in dry pens.

 

Where is this shop? I have to buy my Diamine through the post.

Edited November 16, 2014 by sandy101

[fromthecrowd]

Ink choice largely depends on your goals. You may seek the pleasure of doodling with strikingly beautiful colors (Diamine Syrah). Or you may want your note to stand out among the others (Diamine China Blue). Also you may want to get a text that is comfortable for you to read afterwards. I mostly tend to pursue the latter goal. And find bright strongly saturated inks distracting. Hence I like Diamine Indigo for the main text. The name is deceiving. Color is far from indigo. It is a pale subtle blue-grey with a slightest hint of green. Surprisingly comfortable to read. I prefer it in pens with moderate flow. The second Diamine ink is the Golden-Brown. I use it for headers and markup of the text with coarse or italic nibs. It matches Indigo very well. I tried a couple dozens of Diamine inks and this pair is a certain favorite of mine among them. In general Diamine are very nice. Despite of your goals I am sure you will be able to choose appealing colors among ones they offer.

Edited November 16, 2014 by fromthecrowd

[Hallel]

Steel blue, peach haze, Kelly green.

Syrah, ancient copper, eu du nil,

Diamine has one of the most diverse colour ranges of any of the major ink producers. I think only Noodlers has more. You are sure to find something that appeals.

[redbike]

I have three Diamine inks: Ancient Copper, Twilight and Midnight Eclipse. Of those, Ancient Copper is my favorite, both for its color and performance on a variety of paper types.

[Tas]

Ancient Copper.

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_ancient_copper_swatch.jpg

[fountainpagan]

Umber

[aardvarkbark]

Denim, Oxblood, Ochre. After seeing a recent review of Monaco, will be giving that a try soon.

[ScienceChick]

Marine is one of my all-around favorites.

[SujiCorp12345]

Asa Blue is one of my favourites.

[migo984]

Bilberry, Midnight, Tyrian Purple,

[graystranger]

Ancient Copper and Oxblood.

[VivienR]

Imperila Purple my all time favorite, followed by Asa Blue, Red Dragon.

[Davros]

I love Carnation, from their flower set, but of the normal line, I use Denim, Sargasso Sea, Matador, Ochre, Sepia, Eau de Nil, Amaranth, Asa and Evergreen the most. They are all great, though Sargasso has slightly more maintenance issues than the others.

[Quantum]

I use Graphite a lot and I have a bottle of Midnight that I keep in a few pens as well

[inkstainedruth]

Another vote for Denim. I also like some of the Flower inks; have not yet actually tried them all, and was underwhelmed by the color of Tulip (not my cup of tea) but Carnation, Aster, Bougainvillea and Cornflower are quite nice, and Burgundy Rose isn't bad. Also really like Eclipse for an almost black blue-black color, and And Emerald is probably my most favorite green ink on the planet; a lot of greens just don't hit me the right way -- they're either too teal-tinged or too yellow or just plain too bright -- but Emerald is the PERFECT color green, IMO.

Sargasso Sea is starting to grow on me a bit (after letting it sit in a corner for over a year) -- like the color but it is fairly finicky.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[sandy101]

I fear you have asked a question and got many more answers than perhaps you bargained for.

 

Perhaps you need to start with your favourite colours, or ones that you already have and work from there.

[bayport714]

There is no good answer to the question. The good thing is you cannot go wrong with any Diamine ink. I have never been disappointed with with either color or flow in any pen I've used it in. Buy as much as you can afford.

[Margana]

For color plus performance:

• Mediterranean Blue
• Royal Blue
• Violet
• Emerald
• Sepia
• Raw Sienna

[eduardp]

Autumn Oak