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Please Suggest A Brown Ink That Could Be Used On Official/formal Documents


Patrick L

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Cult Pens Deep Dark Brown (made by Diamine). After a few days, it looks almost black if you write on a "nice" brushed paper, and retains its original colour when used with a legal pad or cheap copy paper. A well-behaving, fast-drying ink.

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I have been using Franklin Christoph Terra Firma at work and there have been no complaints. It has been good on the standard office copier paper the buy and feathering and bleed through have been minimal when using a Matsuyama broad italic nibs.

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Coming to the thread late, I'll throw in another vote for Noodler's Walnut (but it needs to be in a fairly wet writer, since it's such a dry ink). Someone had suggested Whaleman's Sepia over it, but while it's a gorgeous color, I had flow issues with it. As in, it wouldn't. It clung to the sides of the chamber for dear life and would only flow after I diluted it with distilled water.

Never had an ink behave like that before or since. A real disappointment, since it was such an interesting color.

I'm afraid I don't have much experience (if any) with a lot of the suggestions made so far. And, unless you're just using it for signatures, I'd go with black, blue, or a blue black for a professional situation for the most part. Although I've gotten away with both Noodler's El Lawrence (which can get away with being black even when it isn't) and Noodler's Kung te Cheng (dark indigo blue with purple undertones) without issue on checks -- and my bank had done the standard yadda-yadda about ONLY using black or blue inks because of issues with reproducibility, but didn't bat an eye over my use of either of those.... B)

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