Ink Review #2899: De Atramentis Saddle Brown

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We are so close to 2900 ink reviews! Today’s ink is De Atramentis Saddle Brown from the Standard collection. My sample of ink came from Vanness Pens. This ink is also known as De Atramentis Walt Whitman.

The color:

Saddle Brown is a very unsaturated cool-tone brown.

*For my swab cards I use a Col-o-ring by Skylab Letterpress, a medium Pilot Ishime and a Mabie Todd Swan.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink looks much grayer than it does on the Col-o-ring swab.

Writing samples:

Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm, as well as cheap copy paper.

*For my writing samples I use:

Dry time: 40 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: low shading, no sheen, and no shimmer.

On 20 lb copy paper the ink had some bleeding and feathering in all nib sizes. I don’t use this ink on cheap paper.

Comparison Swabs:

Saddle Brown is darker than Tono & Lims Nara: Dear Sakura, but is lighter than Ferris Wheel Press Beaver Dam Brown. Click here to see the brown inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Franklin-Christoph 45L Italian Ice with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has an average flow.

Overall, this is a nice overall brown. It’s mostly well-behaved, but it does not perform well on copy paper, so I stick to the nicer papers.

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