Most Interesting Diamine

[minddance]

Hi, what are the most interesting, complex and/or unique colours from Diamine?

 

I understand this is a rather subjective topic and respect your opinions

[Chrissy]

Popular ones seem to be Red Dragon, Oxblood, Sherwood Green, Majestic Blue, Oxford Blue, Pumpkin, Hope Pink, Ancient Copper, Registrars Blue-Black.

 

To find out which ones are more popular, I would go to the Ink Reviews forum, and look at the Ink Review Index. Those that have been reviewed many times may be more popular than others.

[wasteland]

At one time, I was really taken with Diamine Damson. I may yet return to it.

As a color, I really like Meadow but it's not practical for extended writing.

[chromantic]

The only ones I use regularly are Macassar and Dark Forest, great colors with good performance. I keep a Sport inked with Yellow, too, just because I love the color.

[lapis]

Eclipse. And as Chrissy already said above, for statistics, check out the INK INDEX. Some are old and beloved and often reviewed, some are old but still fairly uninteresting, some are very new and little reviewed... and a few have been reformulated in the meantime.

[Chrissy]

Before I considered which samples to get I went to the Index and picked those that hadn't been reviewed as much.

[kronion]

+1 for Ancient Copper. That being said, The have many interesting inks and I know only a small fraction of them. Unfortunately, I cannot use the really exciting inks at my workplace,so they are just sitting in my ink drawer...

[mannschott]

Salamander is an oddball. It's a greenish brown or brownish green. The paper seems to determine which components of the ink dominate the final color. I think of it as a "poor man's riku-cha". I also find it very hard to photograph or scan accurately. My document scanner, for example, seems convinced that it's purple.

[alexander_k]

If one doesn't like the purple sheen of inks like Majestic Blue and Sargasso (I don't), the range of dark inks by Diamine is impressive: Eclipse, Graphite, Midnight ... In wet writers, especially with broad nibs, they come out almost black but in drier pens they produce very appealing results, often with great shading.

[hinky]

+1 For Salamander and Damson.

 

I also really like Vivaldi (from the music set). It looks similar to Damson, just a more gray and subtle dark purple.

[inkstainedruth]

Oh, where to begin....

I have liked some of the Shimmer inks, but those are a case of YMMV. OTOH, I would never want to be without Damson, Eclipse, Tyrian Purple (that one is really complex a color) and Oxford Blue (great sheen, and way better behaved than Sargasso Sea), and also really like Anniversary Terra Cotta and Anniversary Tudor Blue, plus Grey and Emerald. Diamine Turquoise is the closest match I've found so far for vintage Skrip Peacock for color and shading. And Classic Red is a must have as well -- it's what I think of as RED -- not pinkish red, not blood red, not burgundy red. Right smack in the middle of the color spectrum red.

I have a bunch of other Diamine colors, including the Flower Collection from a couple of years ago. And there are some I still want to try, like some more of the Shimmer inks.

OTOH, I did NOT particularly like Salamander -- too murky a green for me. And if I never have to use Kelly Green again it will be too soon, because that was too light to be legible. Oh, and while I have a bottle of Sargasso Sea I never use it -- it caused hard starts in pretty much every pen I tried it in....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[JakobS]

Tyrian Purple, Wagner, Safari, Monaco Red, Umber, Apple Glory, and Grape are a few I have found to be quite unique and enjoyable to write with.

Edited March 18, 2018 by JakobS

[inotrym]

Another vote for Red Dragon and Pumpkin.

[Torrilin]

Terracotta is a great humany sort of drawing ink. And it’s very legible with interesting shading even in an xf nib. Diamine has about a half dozen or so similar brown/sanguine kinds of ink, and I’m not sure if there’s a best one. But Terracotta is fairly fast drying and easy to clean. I’ll probably pick up another sample while I work my way through various other browns in that range.

 

Syrah is a good browny purpley reddish color, and it has very good dry time. Different vibe, but nice for both writing and drawing.

 

I haven’t gone hunting through the turquoises yet. I’m old and have emotional scars from Skrip Peacock but it did have amazing shading. If you like shading, Diamine has a lot of turquoise to teal inks that might suit.

 

If you have a pen that takes standard cartridges, Diamine is one of the only ink makers to offer variety packs of cartridges. Definitely take a look, because they’re putting those particular inks into a package for a reason. They aren’t always the most popular inks here on FPN but they’re often good and popular inks.

[Bluey]

China Blue may be up there as the colour appears to shift somehow to a different shade some hours after writing with it

[akrohn2010]

+1 for Eclipse, Majestic Blue, and Oxblood for me. Also love Denim.

 

~AK

[mauckcg]

Big fan of Classic Green and Oxford Blue.

[senzen]

They have plenty of interesting inks, I only have one, poppy red which responds to my idea of a pure red; Ancient Copper is nice but tit urned out not to be earth shattering for me; luckily my mum liked it so I gave it to her.

[sansenri]

Interesting:

Bilberry, a purple that is not too purple

Syrah, a red that is not too red

[Uncial]

Oxblood, Red Dragon, Ancient Copper and Wagner