Toffee Brown - Montblanc

[visvamitra]

I have to admit, the company that makes ink for Montblanc usually get things right.

 

Toffee Brown is really great, saturated brown ink I enjoy a lot.

 

Ink splash

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Drops of ink on kitchen towel

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Software ID:

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Color range

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Calendar - Kaweco Sport Classic, eyedropper mode, broad nib

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Edited August 1, 2016 by lapis

[amberleadavis]

Thank you. I love this ink. Oh and it does well in fade tests.

[visvamitra]

@amberlea - thank you. I'm personally not that interested in fading but it's good to know it does well Does one know - by chance - who makes MB inks?

[SujiCorp12345]

I love this ink. Definitely one of my favourites. The shading

[Cyber6]

Ha!!.. you started with the Browns... This is going to be an AMAZING RIDE!!!.... I love Brown inks... the murkier.. the better...

 

 

C.

[Barnaby Bumble]

I love this ink. Definitely one of my favourites. The shading

 

This.

[lgsoltek]

I was actually looking at this ink a few days ago but I finally decided not to buy it. I don't really like browns, especially with a red tint...

[Toll]

I really like the Toffee Brown a lot and it is a great match for the MB Faulkner.

[jmccarty3]

I like the grayish-browns, like J. Herbin Lie de Thé, better than the reddish ones. This is a nice looking ink, but I haven't yet seen a Montblanc ink I couldn't live without. I'm more than ready to be convinced otherwise.

[Barnaby Bumble]

Lie de The is nice, too. It shades almost as well as Toffee Brown.

[Floreat]

This is my favourite brown ink, I love it

[RockFL]

I really enjoy this Montblanc ink... very saturated, flows well and has zero feathering except on the cheapest of copy papers. I have it loaded up with a Conklin Stylograph Mosaic... a perfect match with this medium nib that runs a bit on the finer side.

[Bhavna]

Your colour range image is closer to my experience of Toffee Brown, that orange brown is what attracted me. It is a beautiful, well lubricated ink that is constantly in at least one pen! Thank you for the review. The top image looks like my new bottle of Iroshizuku Yama-Guri - a colour which I have to say is confusing me greatly!

[inkyfingr]

I find it to be a rich wonderful brown with a great feel on the page. I just wish it were more water resistant... Of all my inks, this may be the least tolerant of a little splash of water.

 

Has anyone else experienced nearly complete vanishing of this ink with water?

[amberleadavis]

Yes it washes away.

[Bhavna]

I find it to be a rich wonderful brown with a great feel on the page. I just wish it were more water resistant... Of all my inks, this may be the least tolerant of a little splash of water.

 

Has anyone else experienced nearly complete vanishing of this ink with water?

I have never swum with it, I'm sorry...

[Kevan]

Love, love, love this ink. Bought it just to see if it was any good and wanted a brown to fill my Pilot Custom 823. I have other browns, but this is the best of the 4. Yes, it does have wonderful shading, but the flow! I love the flow and lubrication of this stuff. I thought the Iroshizuku and Sailor inks had the "flow" title in the bag, but this is right up there with them. The only downside is the dry time, but I can live with it in this case.

 

Everyone who has seen this ink remarks on how it looks. The shading really is impressive. I don't care about water resistance at all, so that's not a factor for me. I'm not going to be writing letters underwater, and if I'm in a situation where I need an ink with that quality, I'll use one of the many available.

 

i honestly don't understand why lack of water resistance bothers so many people. I can count on one finger the amount of times where something I wrote got wet, and that was way back in college when I was caught in the rain and my notebooks were unprotected. And that was also before I started using fountain pens. These days, if I'm out and about and there's the threat of rain, I put papers in a plastic portfolio inside my bag. I also don't write near something that could spill.

 

If you need water resistance, there are dozens of options that possess that quality. So I think "water resistance" or "waterproofness" should only be considered or evaluated if an ink claims to be such. If not, who cares? Why knock it then?

Edited December 17, 2014 by Kevan

[Kevan]

I was actually looking at this ink a few days ago but I finally decided not to buy it. I don't really like browns, especially with a red tint...

These scans are strange, and make it look way more red than it actually is, at least in my experience. It's more of an orange tint, if anything. I also don't like browns with a red tint either, and I love this stuff. This is no Diamine Rustic Brown, if that's what you're thinking.

Edited December 17, 2014 by Kevan

[inkyfingr]

Love, love, love this ink. Bought it just to see if it was any good and wanted a brown to fill my Pilot Custom 823. I have other browns, but this is the best of the 4. Yes, it does have wonderful shading, but the flow! I love the flow and lubrication of this stuff. I thought the Iroshizuku and Sailor inks had the "flow" title in the bag, but this is right up there with them. The only downside is the dry time, but I can live with it in this case.

 

Everyone who has seen this ink remarks on how it looks. The shading really is impressive. I don't care about water resistance at all, so that's not a factor for me. I'm not going to be writing letters underwater, and if I'm in a situation where I need an ink with that quality, I'll use one of the many available.

 

i honestly don't understand why lack of water resistance bothers so many people. I can count on one finger the amount of times where something I wrote got wet, and that was way back in college when I was caught in the rain and my notebooks were unprotected. And that was also before I started using fountain pens. These days, if I'm out and about and there's the threat of rain, I put papers in a plastic portfolio inside my bag. I also don't write near something that could spill.

 

If you need water resistance, there are dozens of options that possess that quality. So I think "water resistance" or "waterproofness" should only be considered or evaluated if an ink claims to be such. If not, who cares? Why knock it then?

I love the ink as well. I see your point, but the knock about water resistance is based more than the possibility of getting caught in the rain though. One drop of water - such as if you just wished your hands or a coffee mug, etc. - leaves an empty spot. Water resistance is important if you plan to highlight and don't want a yellow-brown smear. Also if you hands get a little sweaty or damp and smear across the page. Again, there are multiple less dramatic situations where just a LITTLE water resistance is nice.

 

I still use the ink, but I have to treat it differently than most of my other inks. If you have to use an ink with conditions, I think it is fair to "knock" the ink. I also think it is good to let others know ALL the properties of the ink beyond just the fantastic flow and rich brown color.

 

And again -- this is not meant to trash the ink. It is definitely my favorite brown.

[Kevan]

I see what you're saying. I can see the highlighting situation as being annoying, but again, it doesn't apply to me. I use gel pens and ballpoints as well as fountain pens, so highlighting FP ink is not a situation I find myself in. Neither is writing with my FP's with wet hands or near mugs and things that could spill, so those situations don't apply to me personally either. But I see how they could apply to others now that you've explained it.