[penguinmaster]

[DrPJM1]

I love Galileo Brown, much more than Havana Brown and it's permanent too. Thanks for the review.

As Nathan's inks are so saturated, I have had good luck thinning them with water with no ill effects except for beautiful shading.

[wimsey]

Thanks! This is one of the inks I'm thinking about getting next.

[PenTieRun]

Wow--this almost looks like my new bottle of Noodler's Burgundy.

[Opus104]

Great review format. You must be able to tolerate nib creep on this one as well. Not an ink for the OCD among us.

[pixwriter]

Is anyone else thinking it looks red to me?
havana brown does too.
I just see it as an -admittedly brownish- RED ink.
I am hoping to buy a brown ink with no red, coppery or yellow 'highlights'. So far R and K sepia, caran d'ache grand canyon, PR chocolate and Herbin's cacao de bresil are on my shortlist.

[Breck]

Is anyone else thinking it looks red to me?
havana brown does too.
I just see it as an -admittedly brownish- RED ink.
I am hoping to buy a brown ink with no red, coppery or yellow 'highlights'. So far R and K sepia, caran d'ache grand canyon, PR chocolate and Herbin's cacao de bresil are on my shortlist.

It definitely is red-to-orange, while I find Havana red-to-purple. They're both quite warm. I'm a noob, so I don't really know any browns I'd call truly neutral. I'd like to see scans of any of the ones you get.

Actually, I just got a postcard written in C d'A Grand Canyon. It's pretty warm too, but not on the order of Galileo or Havana. Plus, you never know if the way an ink looks on glossy card stock is going to look the same as it does on paper.

[PenTieRun]

PR's Copper Burst is a nice solid brown; there's a hint of gold in it, though. Strangely enough, I keep feeling like it's a hue of pink in Havana Brown.

[GardenWeasel]

I just filled up with it...compared to Noodler's mauve, I'm not seeing any nib creep yet. An absolutely beautiful color! I've been doing purples and violets and tried to create lavenders. This is my first 'brown'. LOVE IT!!

[sharpclaw]

I just see it as an -admittedly brownish- RED ink.

I love this ink; it is beautiful, but yes, very red. It stands at the border for me of being red-brown or brown-red.

I made a mix of 1:1 Noodler's FPN Galileo MS Brown ink and Noodler's Lexington Gray ink and was quite surprised by the result: a shade much more firmly in the "brown" than FPN Galileo MS Brown ink is. It seems to be more of a red-gold-highlighted brown, but something that I can call "brown" without ambiguity. It flows quite wetly, too, behaving just like its "parent" inks (which behave the same way for me).

[grebmar]

I have a bottle of this ink, and while I like it, it has turned all of my pens into firehoses. My xf nibs make B lines! It's very sensitive to the paper used. The color when dry is also not very vibrant. It's actually very similar to Antietam, but duller.

[JFT]

Thanks for a very good review Penguin. I totally relate with you on all account (especially the almost too wet ).

Like Grebmar said it is extremely sensitive to paper, and nib/feed... I have a Binder XXF that write a large M with that ink. On the other hand that inks does wonders in a dry writer!

[excarnate]

Like Grebmar said it is extremely sensitive to paper, and nib/feed... I have a Binder XXF that write a large M with that ink. On the other hand that inks does wonders in a dry writer!

Odd, I have a Pilot 78G in B (italic) and it was skipping so I worked on it and became too wet of a writer. I put the FPN Galileo Manuscript Brown in it and it behaves.

Although the GMB clogs pens something fierce and if I don't use a pen for a few days it'll need to be rinsed to start up.

[rogerb]

Can one really say that any colour, especially a non-primary, is a 'true brown/green/purple, orange' ?

We probably all see them slightly differently, anyway....and you either like 'em , or not

I like this colour, whatever it is , and it does seem very well-behaved ....maybe I'll get some on my up-coming visit to the States. (What a good thing that most 'writing stuff' doesn't take-up lots of suitcase space & weight!)

[HDoug]

I made a mix of 1:1 Noodler's FPN Galileo MS Brown ink and Noodler's Lexington Gray ink and was quite surprised by the result: a shade much more firmly in the "brown" than FPN Galileo MS Brown ink is. It seems to be more of a red-gold-highlighted brown, but something that I can call "brown" without ambiguity.

I did something very similar by mixing it with Noodler's black and some water with the same result. So happy am I with the mix that it immediately took up permanent tenancy in my amber M200.

Doug