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This is one of the new Diamine New Century ink colors. Rustic Brown is a beautiful reddish brown color which brings to mind very old port or well seasoned dark cherry wood. In the bottle you think you may have received a red by mistake, as it has a decidedly burgundy cast to it, but on the page the browns shine through in all their glory. The above scan is very close to the original, though maybe a tad lighter.

 

This will certainly become a fast favorite, especially as the Sonnet seems to love it. No other ink I've used it it flows as smoothly. I suspect it will receive a steady diet of Diamine from now on. This color in particular is a winner.

 

I tested this on very cheap (unknown) paper stock I had in my printer, and even then the ink was well behaved. Even the scratch swatch didn't bleed through much. On a sheet from a moleskine it was beautiful and on 24# parchment is was a delight. No feathering seen even under magnification. This is a color that cries to lay on ecru paper at the lightest, but is bold enough to stand up on Southworth Copper.

 

I'm very pleased that Diamine managed to get my order out ahead of the postal mess, across the Atlantic and in my hands in about a week.

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What a beautiful color. It reminds me of autumn leaves nearing the end of their turning. Very lovely. Thank you for the review!

 

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/mysticmoose/InkScans/Diamine_Rustic_Brown_Review0001.jpg

 

This is one of the new Diamine New Century ink colors. Rustic Brown is a beautiful reddish brown color which brings to mind very old port or well seasoned dark cherry wood. In the bottle you think you may have received a red by mistake, as it has a decidedly burgundy cast to it, but on the page the browns shine through in all their glory. The above scan is very close to the original, though maybe a tad lighter.

 

This will certainly become a fast favorite, especially as the Sonnet seems to love it. No other ink I've used it it flows as smoothly. I suspect it will receive a steady diet of Diamine from now on. This color in particular is a winner.

 

I tested this on very cheap (unknown) paper stock I had in my printer, and even then the ink was well behaved. Even the scratch swatch didn't bleed through much. On a sheet from a moleskine it was beautiful and on 24# parchment is was a delight. No feathering seen even under magnification. This is a color that cries to lay on ecru paper at the lightest, but is bold enough to stand up on Southworth Copper.

 

I'm very pleased that Diamine managed to get my order out ahead of the postal mess, across the Atlantic and in my hands in about a week.

Currently inked: Twsbi Fine with Diamine Hope Pink, Lamy Vista with Heart of Darkness/Levenger Raven Black mix, Parker Sonnet with Levenger Cocoa.

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This is one of the new Diamine New Century ink colors. Rustic Brown is a beautiful reddish brown color which brings to mind very old port or well seasoned dark cherry wood. In the bottle you think you may have received a red by mistake, as it has a decidedly burgundy cast to it, but on the page the browns shine through in all their glory. The above scan is very close to the original, though maybe a tad lighter.

 

This will certainly become a fast favorite, especially as the Sonnet seems to love it. No other ink I've used it it flows as smoothly. I suspect it will receive a steady diet of Diamine from now on. This color in particular is a winner.

 

I tested this on very cheap (unknown) paper stock I had in my printer, and even then the ink was well behaved. Even the scratch swatch didn't bleed through much. On a sheet from a moleskine it was beautiful and on 24# parchment is was a delight. No feathering seen even under magnification. This is a color that cries to lay on ecru paper at the lightest, but is bold enough to stand up on Southworth Copper.

 

I'm very pleased that Diamine managed to get my order out ahead of the postal mess, across the Atlantic and in my hands in about a week.

 

Regarding the drying time...It appears that when you ran your finger over it at one second it didn't smear at all. Is that really correct? Even on copy paper that's pretty remarkable! What about on the parchment paper--is it dry by 5 seconds?

 

Thanks, Ann

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Ann,

 

If you look carefully, there were a bit of smearing at the one second and three seconds intervals. It's very faint, showing a slight blur near the bottom of the strokes.

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This looks closer to purple on my screen than close to any shade of brown.

 

Screens lie, especially of they're not color calibrated. ;) It's very much a reddish brown.

 

As for drying time, that's about the hardest thing to be objective about. I tend to use a pretty light hand so ink will dry relatively fast. This morning I tried again, standing up and in a rush, so I ended up with a heavier stroke. Still some smear at 10 sec. A lot is going to depend on your hand and the flexibility of your nib. It's not the fastest drying ink I have, but for my typical writing style it's plenty fine. Left handers might have more of an issue, though.

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Thanks for the review. I've been wondering what this one looks like.

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I've been playing with this ink in a 0.7mm cursive italic and it reminds me a lot of FPN Galileo, only slightly darker and, of course, not waterproof. I have not tried it with other nibs yet, so I cannot judge it accurately, but it does seem well-behaved so far.

 

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As for drying time, that's about the hardest thing to be objective about. I tend to use a pretty light hand so ink will dry relatively fast. This morning I tried again, standing up and in a rush, so I ended up with a heavier stroke. Still some smear at 10 sec. A lot is going to depend on your hand and the flexibility of your nib. It's not the fastest drying ink I have, but for my typical writing style it's plenty fine. Left handers might have more of an issue, though.

 

Thanks for getting back to me on this. Yes, I'm one of those lefties, and if you got some smearing at 10 seconds I likely couldn't use the ink! (Especially if it was the cheap, absorbent paper that you got the smearing on.) I was hoping to find a brick/brownish red replacement for Diamine Monaco Red which I have a smearing problem with.

 

Best, Ann

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I got mine today and its a wonderful, deep, reddish-brown. I'm not usually a fan of red-browns (Don't stone me but I hate Waterman Havana) but this has a lovley rich, luminous quality to it that doesn't show up on screen. I'm very impressed

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Chalk up another one for my order list from Diamine! I wonder how this reddish brown would compare with Sailor Red-Brown????????? Anyone????

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