What's Your Favourite Diamine Ink?

[arrScott]

Ancient Copper, Marine, Twilight.

 

Though really, you can't go wrong. Even the Diamine colors that I don't personally like are still almost all interesting inks. I just wish Diamine could engineer a little better water resistance along with the color magic!

[PDW]

Just ordered Autumn Oak and Bilberry - am i allowed two choices?

[jmccarty3]

My favorite Diamines are Imperial Purple, Imperial Blue, Sapphire Blue, Bilberry, Wild Strawberry, and Sunset. I'm also interested in trying China Blue, Kelly Green, Damson, Amazing Amethyst, Ancient Copper, Matador, and Sargasso Sea.

[PAKMAN]

My all time favorite is Mediterranean Blue followed closely by Marine and Chocolate.

[Stowford]

Thanks for all the replies. Taken a look at a couple of the recurring choices - Bilbury and Ancient Copper, and I think these will get me started. It's going to be easy to spend money in this place.

 

The shop is in Seoul, I'm working over here now. There are a few quite good shops around if ever anyone is over here.

[ander75it]

My favourite are:

Kelly Green, Ancient Copper, Syrah

 

The first two are particularly nice on flex nibs.

[fromthecrowd]

Here is an intermediate conclusion. Only definite opinions were counted. The mentions like "it is growing on me" or "I would probably like to try..." were ignored. Here are the inks that got 3 and more votes.

 

Diamine ink - votes

Ancient Cooper -9

Bilberry - 5

 

Asa Blue - 4

Imperial Purple - 4

Sapphire Blue - 4

 

Autumn Oak - 3

Denim — 3

Emerald - 3

Marine - 3

Midnight - 3

Oxblood - 3

Sepia - 3

Sherwood Green - 3

Steel blue - 3

Syrah - 3

Tyrian Purple - 3

Edited November 18, 2014 by fromthecrowd

[gwyneddd]

Ancient Copper and Red Dragon. I think Diamine makes some of the best reds.

[PDW]

Here is an intermediate conclusion. Only definite opinions were counted. The mentions like "it is growing on me" or "I would probably like to try..." were ignored. Here are the inks that got 3 and more votes.

 

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Thanks

 

When all the votes are in, the results should be highlighted somewhere as a service to the new victims who write 'new to FPs, what ink should I get first?'

 

Edited only for typos

Edited November 18, 2014 by PDW

[fromthecrowd]

This is very provocative. I just had to order Ancient Copper and Imperial Purple .

[gwyneddd]

I've been looking at Imperial Purple. No purple ink (really purple) has pleased me. I love the old Poussiere de Lune for a dulled violet, but I love that royal purple. I'm thinking Imperial Purple is it. I love that they have those smaller bottles.

 

Do we have an Ink Hall of Fame? We should.

[MKeith]

 

 

Disregard please.

Edited November 18, 2014 by MKeith

[Legal Eagle]

So far I only have Aqua Blue, and Marine; Marine is my favourite. I'm waiting on bottles of Oxblood, Soft Mint, and Coral.

Edited November 19, 2014 by Legal Eagle

[WateryFlow]

Sigh, so many awesome and interesting ones that I would wholeheartedly recommend but if I had to choose only a handful they would be

-Asa blue

-Magassaw

-Ancient copper

-Oxblood

-Twilight

-Sunset

[Davros]

Even though I listed a bunch before, I'm constantly nodding at other people's choices. Really, it would be easier to list the inks I've tried that I don't recommend. (I won't, because I don't want to make this thread negative. 99% of the inks I've tried have been totally awesome, or would be awesome for someone else.)

 

In fact, I'm strongly resisting the urge to go and buy gobs of ink from Diamine RIGHT NOW. Ink I don't need. Ink that would take up space. Ink that would be so pretty, and flow so nice.

[indigoskye]

I own a couple of Diamine inks. My favorites are:

 

Oxblood

Imperial Purple

[perfaddict]

You cant go wrong with Diamine inks, IMO. I currently have:

 

Sapphire Blue

Lavender

Apple Glory

 

And in the Conway Stewart range:

 

St. Blazey

Tamar

[paulmcmanus]

Blaze orange. Rich and deep without being fluorescent.

[Jeff_H]

I like Diamine inks quite a bit. Here are the colors I have:

 

Meadow

Emerald

Oxblood

Sargasso Sea

Sunset

 

Meadow is just a blah bright green to me. Emerald is much more interesting but not quite dark enough for me. My wife likes the greens. The Sargasso Sea is a dark dark blue, and I like a dark navy blue. The trouble is it's so wet and saturated it smears easily, even after it dries and you put your finger or hand on the text accidentally. I've done this several days later in my planner at work and smeared something from the previous week.

 

The Sunset it good. I wanted a dark burnt orange brown. It's not quite as dark as I'd like, but really nice for say a fall letter, thanksgiving cards or any other occasion you might want orange for, but not a pumpkin orange. Good shading.

 

Oxblood. By far my favorite ink from Diamine...so far. Wonderful deep dark blood red. However, it is wet and saturated as well. Not as bad as Sargasso Sea, but close. In a pen that writes a bit drier it is lovely. If you pen is super wet it might be too wet. Actually, the only pen I don't like it in is my 146. My favorite pen to use it with is my 1911 with Naginata-Togi nib. This is a fairly wet nib, but not like my 146. It looks so wonderful on white or cream paper. It would look great on grey too. Surprisingly my Vanishing Point is too wet to use with the Oxblood and it's only a medium.

 

I have 4-5 more bottles sitting in my cart at Goulet Pens....waiting for me to make up my mind. I really like Diamine ink. 80ml for $12.95 is a great deal to me.

[DERoadie]

Meadow