Diamine Chocolate Brown

[visvamitra]

Manufacturers since 1864, Diamine Inks relocated to this purpose built 'state of the art' factory in Liverpool in 1925, where they successfully carried on using the traditional methods and formulas for ink production. Over the years the company has changed hands and are now located close to the world famous Aintree Race Course

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I think that Diamine Chocolate Brown is rather enjoyed among pen & inks users. What's not to like? It's saturated, well lubricated, the flow is good and the writing experience is enjoyable. It's not safest ink for vintage sac pens and it tends to cause some nib creep (but ONLY after long time of not using the pen, like two months). If you clean pens rehularly, it won't cause any issues.

 

There's no useful water resistance to this ink. Personally I don't care but if you do, look elsewhere.

 

All in all, I think this is good ink worth trying.

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Color range

Maruman - Kaweco Classic Sport, broad nib

Tomoe River, Pelikan M805, medium nib

Leuchtturm 1917 - Kaweco AL Sport, broad nib

Maruman, Hero 5028, stub 1.9

Water - resistance

 

[Budzynski]

Great review! I was looking for something similar to this ink but more water resistant and yet there isn't anything close I could find. Any suggestions?

[lgsoltek]

Ah, reddish browns... Not my kind of colour. Great review, as usual!

[Penman222]

Great review! I was looking for something similar to this ink but more water resistant and yet there isn't anything close I could find. Any suggestions?

There is some water resistance when most of the brown washes away. Check out Sandy1's great review a few years back. A really nice brown, one of my favorites.

[domzals1]

One of my favorites, great review! My M200 Cafe Creme is inked with this 90% of the time; a match made in ink heaven!!

[ManofKent]

Great review, but I'm not keen on the colour. Might be too reddish for me.

[Budzynski]

There is some water resistance when most of the brown washes away. Check out Sandy1's great review a few years back. A really nice brown, one of my favorites.

I might not specify it enough. In my experience, it smudges on the paper a little bit more that I'm willing to accept, just like most of Diamine inks. I have it and use it but this is the property of the ink that I don't like.

[Carrau]

Nice review of an aptly named ink.

[dannyboy]

I love browns so this is one I definitely need to try. So far my favorite browns are Herbin's Lie de The and Pelikan's Smoky Quartz.

Thanks for your good review!

[inkstainedruth]

I tried this one several years ago but it didn't wow me.

Thanks for the review, though.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[dannystr78]

Love this ink. One of my top browns. It looks amazing in my Omas F nib.

[The Good Captain]

It is a cracking ink and yet another great review.

[Newjelan]

Great review of a personal favourite, thanks

[Mauricio]

Great ink review visvamitra. Another big fan of Diamine Chocolate Brown ink. One of my favorite brown inks when using firm nibs. Last time I used it, it stayed on a Parker 51 aerometric in Cocoa color with a factory original Broad nib. The pen, the nib and that nib love each other very much!

[Aquaria]

I often joke that this ink looks so much like its namesake that chocoholics will try to eat it off the page. It really does look like chocolate, at least with the pens I've used it in (Parker Sonnet and another that I can't remember now).

[NicolausPiscator]

Yes! Why not like this colour? Many love it but for my taste it is too much chocolate-like, too much red. It tends to milk chocolate. While Diamine Macassar or Montblanc Toffee Brown is in my opinion a really deep lush brown. Great review!

[Lexus77]

Good review. I have this ink, and I love it. At the moment, my Conklin Duragraph is inked with it.

[Bo Bo Olson]

1988/pre-97 Marbled Grey... Silver Pearl....OM. (Thanks to Pelikan Perch for his normal grand info I know when it first came out.)

It had been in my cleaned pens, but wasn't quite as clean as expected...

 

I've read Diamine Chocolate Brown, shades, so wanted a regular flex nib, and wanted M, in that IMO gives better shading than F.

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It's not a shade monster, but is there on Oxford Optic90g and slightly darker on Clairefontaine Triomphe 90g.

It is a bit more subtle than I normally care for, but there is enough shading to make the script look a bit more lively. 

That an ink that dark shades, is good.