Standardgraph Maize Yellow

[Guardy]

NOTE: My bottle is actually marked Coffee Brown, but it 100% matches the scans / color swabs for Maize Yellow, so I assume that's what this is. Standardgraph is pretty bad at labeling things correctly - this is not the first bottle I've had this problem with.

 

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Drying Time: Not excellent, but not particularly bad, either. It never gets in the way of writing.

 

Flow: Decent. Never had any problems in any pens.

 

Start-Up: Tends to oxidize, as seen in the Jinhao writing sample and the rest of the review, but you have to actively try to get any start-up problems.

 

Nib Dry-out: Starts up on the second stroke after three minutes of being uncapped. Decent enough, I think.

 

Lubrication: Quite good.

 

Feather/Bleedthrough: None on 90 g/sm Oxford or Clairefontaine paper. Some on 80 gs/m copy paper.

 

Waterproof: Lol no. Doesn't look too bad in the scan, but it's almost unreadable on paper... and I went pretty easy on it.

 

Papers: Standardgraph inks tend to cause skipping on very smooth papers. I don't have any paper fitting that description at the moment, but I'd imagine it applies here, as well. Not particularly suitable for copy paper, but still tolerable.

 

Notes: The shading is magnificent IRL. More magnificent is the halo effect you get with it; a very pronounced border around the letters. No sheen. Dark enough for note-taking in theory, but I wouldn't necessarily do that. Absolutely beautiful in a dip pen. Like, seriously. The red in the darkest parts is less pronounced in real life; I just couldn't colour-correct it out completely.

 

First review, please be nice.

[visvamitra]

Yes,

 

They aren't most reliable ink maker in terms of labelling or filling the bottles to the same level.

[lapis]

Thanks for the nice review. Actually, I think it is their coffee brown / kaffeebraun (Sandardgraph Number 572204). Their maize yellow / maisgelb (572205) is quite dark but not that brown. All the maize ('corn' in North America) I've ever seen is more more of a light, bright yellow like crocus yellow / krokusgelb (572207).

 

Mike

[Guardy]

Yes,

 

They aren't most reliable ink maker in terms of labelling or filling the bottles to the same level.

Indeed. Very pretty inks, though, otherwise I wouldn't put up with it.

 

Thanks for the nice review. Actually, I think it is their coffee brown / kaffeebraun (Sandardgraph Number 572204). Their maize yellow / maisgelb (572205) is quite dark but not that brown. All the maize ('corn' in North America) I've ever seen is more more of a light, bright yellow like crocus yellow / krokusgelb (572207).

 

Mike

Nah, I've actually got a bottle of coffee brown (labelled as Fig Brown, sigh) and it's slightly darker (but, alas, not a lot), but mostly not yellowish at all; it's more along the lines of J. Herbin's Terre de Feu.

By the way, the ink does write substantially lighter in dry-writing pens.

I agree with you on the bad choice of name, though - if anything, the ink looks like some very odd cross between mustard and honey.

[lapis]

Or some very old, rotten maize....

[chromantic]

Yes, I ordered Feigenbraun, the bottle was labelled Feigenbraun, but the ink inside was definitely not Feigenbraun. This spurred me to finally order Yama-guri so it worked out.

Edited November 25, 2016 by chromantic