Monteverde Canyon Rust

[visvamitra]

Monteverde is part of Yafa company. Some time ago the company offered wide array of new inks with Ink ITF™ - new Ink Treatment Formula that's supposed to drastically improve ink-flow quality, extend cap-off time and improve ink drying time on paper. After trying two inks I can agree it's not just marketing - the inks behave very well.

Bottle

The inks can be bought in 30 (and 90) ml bottle. The bottle is made of lass, has simple design and id pretty functional - stable and with wide neck allowing to fill quite comfortably (as long as there's more than 60 % of the ink content in it) even monster fountain pens straight from the bottle.

Ink

The ink is well saturated and displays pleasant range of warm hues. The shading is visible. The flow is smooth and the ink feels well lubricated even in dry pens. Some feathering and bleed-through will be experienced only on crappiest papers (hello Moleskine). Drying time is reasonable. Also, it's impressive that the ink doesn't dry out when you leave the pen uncapped. Even after three minutes the pen starts without any skipping when you put the nib to the paper. I enjoy this ink.

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Color ID

Color range

Field Notes, Platinum 3776, B

Munken Rough, Platinum 3776, B

Fabriano, Kaweco Classic Sport, stub 1.1

Rhodia, Wing Sung 696, F

Water Resistance

[inkstainedruth]

This is one I can pass on. But thanks, as always for the comprehensive reviews.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[namrehsnoom]

I rather like it. Seems close to Callifolio Aurora, an ink I really enjoy - a bit darker though.

[Uncial]

I like this ink a lot although it's not my favourite....but.....for some reason more people have commented on how nice this ink is when I write with it than any other ink I own, and I own a lot.

[farazqamar]

Nice ink, nice review.

[SamCapote]

I just bought some after seeing your review. Thank you!

[Honeybadgers]

I think monteverde fireopal will be the only color I buy repeatedly.

[Carrau]

Recently I've been comparing this ink to a sample of Colorverse Coast Redwood. Without doing any chromatography, they are very close in color to my eye. The Coast Redwood appears slightly “flatter" which, again to my eye, makes it appear ever so slightly more brown than Canyon Rust, but they’re very close. Both have been fine writers in a Lamy Safari 1.1 stub, and I'm getting no bleed through, even on inexpensive paper (an issue for one of the other reviewers). I need to do a more formal review of Coast Redwood as well as a comparison post after a bit more experimentation. Thanks for the original review, Vis.

Edited August 16, 2020 by Herrjaeger

[PAKMAN]

I didn't see this before, love this color!

[Carrau]

I find it easy to read on the written page.