Today’s ink is Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown. You can find this ink for sale at most retailers including Vanness Pens.

*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 less red than it did 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.

*For my writing samples I use:

Dry time: 30 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

On 20 lb copy paper the ink had some feathering and bleeding in the larger nib sizes.

Brilliant Brown is less red than Ink Institute Taipei Metro Wenhu Line. Click here to see the brown inks together.

I used a Pelikan M800 Renaissance Brown with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has a dry flow.

Overall, this is a good basic brown ink with some shading. It is dry, so I prefer to use it in wet Pelikan pens, which is what it was designed for.

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