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I haven't seen a review of this ink, so I thought I'd put up a quick, strictly non-professional review. I generally love de Atramentis inks. They're well-behaved, great performing inks that aren't fussy in the pen or on paper. For this review, I wrote a few impressions on white Clairefontaine paper and took a picture with a cell phone. Sorry, without a scanner it's hard to get a good colour representation.

 

This is a rich dark blue. It's not like one of those blue-blacks that feels washed out with grey. It's bold. I'll reproduce the text:

 

de Atramentis Guiseppe Verdi

(Noodler's Konrad — Knox fine nib)

 

A beautiful dark blue ink with some (tiny) amount of shading. Like most de Atramentis inks, it's well-behaved, medium wet, and fast drying enough for a left-handed overwriter.

 

No sign of bleeding or feathering on Rhodia (webbie) and Clairefontaine paper.

 

I've been waiting for Omas Blue to be readily available again, bit I think this is a good stand-in for a dark blue that's not a blue-black or blue-grey.

 

Highly recommended!

 

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7247/reviewp.jpg

 

Also, I'm loving this Konrad outfitted with a Knox fine nib (once it was properly gapped and tuned). This is the best Noodler's pen yet.

 

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/7677/penp.jpg

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It's...blue? But verdi MEANS green <head explodes>

 

Yeah. I was expecting a green too! Might as well call it Atramentis Coconut, just as random ... :roflmho:

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It's...blue? But verdi MEANS green <head explodes>

 

Maybe Guiseppe means blue?

 

:roflmho:

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I thought it would have been a lovely shade of green too :rolleyes: maybe he wrote his music in blue ink? It looks like a genuine deep blue, I like it :)

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I have De Atramentis 2012 Year of the Dragon which is also the DA "dark blue." Love it. My first ink (still a newbie). Nicely saturated, so not shading. But, it's a great bold blue. ONe of my go to blues and I have it in Jinhao x450 and it works great.

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Verdi in this instance is an historic figure...not a color ;) Question: do I need any more blue inks? Probably not. But I may pick up the Raphael Santi since my budgie is named after Raphael. The Verdi is a nice color. Not sure it's different enough to warrant adding it to my blues, but nice review :)

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thanks for sharing. this is a very nice dark blue. i have Omas blue and it's blue looks brighter than this one. this reminds me a bit of Diamine midnight blue. or maybe Noodler's midnight blue.

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Don't know about the name (or maybe it works for writing operas?) but that is one good looking blue... Great review too!

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Verdi in this instance is an historic figure...not a color ;) Question: do I need any more blue inks? Probably not. But I may pick up the Raphael Santi since my budgie is named after Raphael. The Verdi is a nice color. Not sure it's different enough to warrant adding it to my blues, but nice review :)

 

I just received samples of both the Raphael Santi and the Verdi.

 

The Verdi is more navy than the Raphael. The Raphael is more obviously blue. There is not a ton of difference between them, however -- it's pretty subtle.

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