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Take a look at Pendleton Brown's Coco' Mo'. It's wonderful.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/246956-pendletons-new-inks/

 

That sure looks great! I liked both that and the BlakWa when they first came out. Hmmm....

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I use brown when not writing for work. Work only lets me use black or blue. In personal correspondence and other doodling, I have happily used Waterman's Havana Brown and Private Reserve Black Cherry which also comes off as brown.

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Now that's just wrong. Blood was not used for setting up contracts, oath-writing and such stuff. You might see such a fancy habit in some movies or read it in novels - but that's an idea from the 19th century "romanticism" (like the many other things they made up about the middle ages - we still believe it today, but it's actually very wrong). If you go into archives and look at the medieval manuscripts you don't find anything written with blood.

 

What you can find are rubricated texts where important parts are writting in reddish/brownish ink to highlight certain parts. Thus it can occur that death sentences were sometimes written in red. But even so not everywhere and everytime. This conventional red ink was cheap to make and the ingredients readily available. There was simply no blood involved.

 

I'm not going to discredit either theory, since I've seen Sutra texts written in blood. What I do know is that there IS a scroll written in blood from the Bodleian collection, which was catalogued in 1922. It is dated to the 16th century.

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Shading ink.

 

Back when all things MB were hated on the com...except in the MB section, that I didn't go to not then having an MB pen, the fabled MB Racing Green was the most hated ink in the FPN world.

The advice was buy the ink, dump it ASAP and use the great bottle for real inks. As 'noobie' I believed the wisdom of the com.

 

Having a choice of which ink I was to dump, when I got the the B&M....I almost got that detested MB Racing Green...even have a MX-5 in a metal flake version....at the last second I decided I'd take the brown ink, having never used one. It was MB Sepia.

It was not bad at all. Then it was discontinued and MB Toffee came out....a much better brown. So the Sepia ended up in Cobweb Corner.

It was only later I discovered Sepia is not brown, but sepia, and there is at least 20 different sepia inks in the world.

Pelikan 4001 Brown is more reddish. DA Copper brown is a different reddish brown.

MB Collodi is to me a red, to others a red-brown.

Noodlers Golden Brown is a nice 'lighter than chocolate' good shading brown.

Herbin Cafe d'Illes and Lie de The are very nice browns...I can recommend them, nice shading inks..

I have also a bottle of Diamine Chocolate Brown.

 

I really don't have enough browns...about a year ago, I got a bottle of Pelikan 4001 Green; a very nice green-green that shades...now I have 11 greens. So I need more browns.

 

I have not hardly dabbled in Purple with only three and three violets....

Yep, stay away from Brown, Green, Purple and other such odd colors....there is 25-50 blues to use....10-12 blue blacks and some 7 or so renown blacks.

 

Gee I don't have a single Brown inked....hummmm I just remembered I do have a second Sepia that I've not used... :D

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