De Atramentis Silver Grey

[visvamitra]

De Atramentis fountain pen inks are hand made in Germany by Dr. Franz-Josef Jansen, and come in a 35ml glass bottle. The company has been producing inks for about 30 years so there is a proven track record here. These inks are said to be hand made - the entire production process is done manually in the manufacturing center. The thing that influence their quality and, sadly, price is the fact that Dr. jansen uses only dyes from well established german companies like BASF.

De Atramentis inks are sold in 35 ml glass bottles. I enjoy the way this bottle look and I find them practical. Some of DA inks come in black glass that's supposed to protect the ink from light.

I enjoy trying products of smaller companies, especially the ones that creators put a lot of heart and energy in developing their business and products. I believe Dr. Jansen is such a person. He's developed literally hundreds of inks indifferent categories. I've tried just a small quantity of his inks. I've enjoyed some and disliked some. It's normal. I'm still eager to get to know most of DA inks.

De Atramentis inks are grouped into categories like Sstandard inks, Document inks, Black Edition inks. Also on De ATramentis website you can find a lot of topic related inks (places, signs of zodiac, history, business, music, literature etc.). Most of them are renamed standard inks.

Silver Grey is one of DA standard ibnks and one of few grey inks DA offers. I like this particular hue a lot and I think it's great ink. At least on most papers. It causes feathering on bad papers like Moleskine but on most other papers there's no feathering at all. The ink is reasonably water resistant and has reasonable drying time. The shading, especially in stub nibs, looks attractive.

Mmg122 - thank you for sending me sample of this ink.

Ink splash

Ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Color range

Rhodia, Przemysław Marciński Custom FP with JoWo 1.1. stub

Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Classic Sport, broad nib

Moleskine, Przemysław Marciński Custom FP with JoWo 1.1. stub

Copy paper, Lamy Safari, fine nib

Water resistance

[abstract49]

While I like my blacks to be BLACK, not grey pretending to be black, I do have uses for greys, and I discovered this one a couple of years ago. I use it for a specific purpose every day, and it is one of only three I have found to satisfy my need for grey.

 

In a word, I really like it!

 

Good review, as you always do,Visvamitra!

[Misfit]

I got a bottle of DeA silver gray because it was put in a bottle of Richard Wagner ink that should have had Marone (chestnut possibly).

 

Glad to see it's a gray I'd enjoy using.

[Tas]

Ooo, it's looking like the greys have got their hooks into you . . .

[julia239]

I love that you went straight from The Library at Mount Char to William Blake.

[inkstainedruth]

De Atramentis Silver Grey (in its relabeled form of Tchaikowsky) is probably my most favorite grey ink on the *planet*. It's a pretty color, but still dark enough to be legible -- and I like it for drawing as well as writing.

I'm just really cranky that Dr. J no longer has it relabeled as Albrecht Dürer (which is now relabeled Anthracite, a shading black). Because that would have been awesome to have.

Thanks for the review.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[visvamitra]

@JUlia - LIbrary at Mount Char is awesome book and Blake is my lorem ipsum for ink reviews:)

[julia239]

@JUlia - LIbrary at Mount Char is awesome book and Blake is my lorem ipsum for ink reviews:)

 

The use of the two quotes right next to each other made me laugh.

I've noticed you always use the Blake lines. Char is an awesome book! I read it, and then immediately reread it to look for all the things I missed that indicated how it got to where it was going.

[visvamitra]

Ah yes, Blake and Char don't have the same tone I prefer Mount Char but I remember Blake verses since I first read them 20 years ago. At that time theywere good enough to imprint themselves in my mind.

[Morbus Curiositas]

Hi Visva nice work...

 

And a nice ibk indeed.

 

Tou mentioned feathering. This sometimes can be a problem on some papers

 

But believe me I tried it....

But on Moleskine paper even an ordinary pencil feathers haha