Diamine Red Dragon Seems Brown?

[SolberM]

I've had this ink for a few months now. I use it in my Cross Bailey. I was very excited about its color when looking at pictures, but I was immediately disappointed upon seeing that the ink was almost copper or blood like. I still like this ink, but is this just how I'm seeing it or is it because of the lighting and/or pen I'm using? Do any of you all feel the same?

 

(Note: I tried taking pictures but they look different from how it looks in real life (it looks redder and brighter) so I'm not including them)

Edited August 8, 2016 by SolberM

[Kublai Khan]

I think I was able to recreate your problem. Wrote a few lines on standard white printer paper. In a room with daylight streaming in through the window, if I held my writing pad up a bit such that the window was in front of me and only indirect/diffused light fell onto my pad, the writing looked coppery/brown. If I held up the pad such that the window was behind me (direct light fell onto the pad), it looked perfectly red. So I think it's your lighting conditions, not the ink.

[Wandering Man]

It looks so much like blood to me that I often mistakenly refer to it as Dragon's Bood.

[Chrissy]

If you mean Red Dragon, I don't think it's copper or brown. I would call it venous blood red as opposed to arterial blood red. Just as a comparison of the two shades.

[lgsoltek]

I have the same perception of this ink as you. The brownish tone in this ink is exactly what puts me off. The ink seems to become a redder hue as it dries but I just can't get past the disgusting dirty brown tint at the beginning.

 

(That said, I can imagine now a bunch of people holding torches coming at me and going to burn me as a heretic. LOL)

[SolberM]

I apologize, I meant Red Dragon.

 

I also very recently switched the ink in my Jinhao x450 to the Red Dragon. In that pen, it looks much more like a red! So I suppose it's the nib. It's interesting how much inks can vary color between pens, which is both a good and bad thing.

[VivienR]

Red Dragon is my favorite red. Never experienced it to be other than red.