A Couple Of Brown Inks

[ddntp]

Hello everyone,
Here you have brown inks comparison (set #1, 24 inks). Maybe someone find it useful!

Paper: Clairefontaine Triomphe (90gsm, lined)

Fountain Pen: Faber-Castell E-motion, medium nib

Color Category: Brown

Scan:

Photo:

For quick searching:

Set #1:

Montblanc Toffee Brown

Lamy [Crystal Ink] Topaz

Monteverde Scotch Brown

Akkerman #22 Hopjesbruin

Graf von Faber-Castell Cognac Brown

Monteverde [Noir Ink Collection] Copper Noir

Diamine SBRE Brown

Diamine Ochre*

Visconti Sepia

Monteverde Brown Sugar

Diamine Macassar

Montblanc Sepia

Rohrer & Klingner Sepia

Montblanc Swan Illusion Plume

Monteverde [Gemstone Collection] Moonstone

L'Artisan Pastellier [Callifolio] Sepia

KWZ Ink Brown #4

Monteverde Canyon Rust

Sheaffer Skrip Brown

Diamine [Music Collection] Strauss

Standardgraph Fig Brown [Feigenbraun]

Caran d'Ache [Colors of the Earth] Grand Canyon

Aurora [100th Anniversary] Sepia

Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown / Brillant Braun

Mind inks with sepia in name - so many different colors!

* Diamine Ochre have such a good flow that ink always pour from converter into the pen cap...

[nibtip]

Hello, very useful indeed.

Never enough ink comparisons.

I have 8 of those. Colors are accurate except maybe the Strauss. Mine seems less pink.

The photo is underexposed. But that can easily be corrected.

Please continue.

Which reminds me to show my ink palettes too.

Edited June 3, 2020 by nibtip

[Croma]

Hello:

Thank you. Always is usefull a ink reference before chose one.

Regards.

[namrehsnoom]

Great comparison - thank you. I found a few that I really like: Monteverde Moonstone, R&K Sepia and the Fig Brown. Added them to my wish list.

[inkstainedruth]

I'm with namrehsnoom, especially over R&K Sepia. That is definitely one to add to the "try, and try SOON" list, along with Monteverde Brown Sugar (in the latter case, if only to see how it compares color-wise to Diamine Macassar).

And I'm going to have to dig out my clearance bottle of Caran d'Ache Grand Canyon because it looks different from what I remember....

Thanks for doing this. Especially since it's written exemplars, not just swabs.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[sansenri]

call it a couple...

thank you very useful! (I'm only missing the JH browns)

I like the darker browns like Monteverde Brown sugar and Diamine Macassar, I may have tro try either

[lapis]

Great! As always, comparisons are most useful. As said above, it's stunning to see again and again how different a "sepia" can turn out.

[Tas]

Super!

 

Im out of R&K Sepia and I now see I need Monteverde Moonstone.

 

Thank you.

😇

[fphilipp]

Thanks!

[ddntp]

The photo is underexposed. But that can easily be corrected.

 

I know, but after a white balance correction it looks almost as scan:

call it a couple...

 

A couple = 24, some = 48, few = 72... (my green ink comparison its about to upgrade from "some" to "few")

 

(...) it's stunning to see again and again how different a "sepia" can turn out.

 

I'm waiting for Pilot Sepia cartridges, one more to compare

 

 

Anyway, set#2 will take some time to complete (for now 2/24 inks).

[KaB]

Thanks!

Just to make sure: all writing samples were done with the same pen? (Standardgraph and Diamine Ochre look like Laurel and Hardy!)

[ddntp]

(...) all writing samples were done with the same pen? (...)

 

Yes, same pen for all writing samples:

 

[fpupulin]

Very, very, very useful!

I found the few inks of your list that I own to be very similar to your scan and after-balance photograph.

Thank you so much!

[Eclipse157]

Thank you! Many beautiful colors there, and some I already have. You Standardgraph Fig Brown is completely different from mine however! Yours is much paler and pastel-tinted, and mine is something between Macassar and Nakahama Sepia.