Diamine Fountain Pen Ink, 80 ml Bottle, Ancient Copper

The ink is (understandably, since it's fountain pen ink) a little messy when used with a ruling pen or other pens you have to dip, but it does work and provides a rich color and tactile texture to the page. It also provides a pretty nice lighter water-color-like effect when smudged, if art is your thing. As a bonus, since I have a nasty habit of placing my hand in recently drawn ink, I have yet to use this specific shade of ink and not be later asked if I was grievously injured, so I gotta think there's some value there for costume makeup.In all seriousness, it's a great ink with really nice texturing and color.

Put it in a jinhao pen. It was not flowing well with noodlers or even mont blanc blue. This saved the pen from the trash. It now flows great. It dries faster than private "reserve brand" quick dry too. The color is not copper but more of a brown. I am happy with it because it can be used at the office where the reddish copper color might have been too much color for the office.

Currently my favorite ink. I have several other colors but, seem to always end up filling a pen with Ancient Copper. A true fine nib represents the color but not like a medium to broad nib does. The ink dries fairly fast if your pen is a wet writer. Not puddles of wet ink - but even then considering the dry time is spot on. I am not into shading or anything like that but again the medium or broad nib and your personal style one may experience the shading effect. I have noticed it when I write. I am not into calligraphy as I am not that talented so my use has strictly been with a fountain pen.

So, the reviews saying it's the wrong color are true. It's brown, not copper. The left one is another bottle of the same color. The one the right is this product.It's still a gorgeous, rich brown and I'll be keeping it. However, if you were looking for a copper red, this isn't it.

This ink flows well, seems to be water resistant enough to suit me, and I love the color. I am not a pen collector or an ink aficionado, I simply like fountain pens and inks. I ordered this thinking that is would be more coppery orange since orange is my favorite color. I planned to use it occasionally in a calligraphy pen. The ink is actually a warm rich brown. Blue black has been my ink color since I rediscovered fountain pens, now I have two favorite colors for regular use. Most of the time I write with a vintage Parker 75 Thuya Laque, fine gold nib, or a new Nemosine Fission, fine German nib.

Ancient Copper Very attractive ink, it has worked very well in the 5-6 pens that I have tried it in so far. The color is more of a new copper than an ancient copper, with a strong orange tone to it. However, I did notice that it seems darker in the Lamy Safari than in any of the other pens I have used. The nib sizes are similar (fine to x-fine) so I am not sure what is causing the difference in appearance. Dries quickly, some light bleed through on cheap copy paper, you can see there was writing being done, but it wasn't enough to really read it. Overall very happy with this ink, and look forward to trying out other Diamine colors in the future.

I browsed many reviews on the web re: this ink color. I was also considering Autumn Oak, but picked this in the hopes that it would be more brownish and somewhat acceptable for use in everyday office paperwork. I view myself as a practical fountain pen user — meaning, I don't go above and beyond to seek certain brands of fountain pen-friendly paper — and I always have an extra fine point pen, along with a stub nib pen that I'll switch to if I see that whatever paper I'm working on doesn't feather using the EF. Basically, Ancient Copper is too red if you're going to be working on paper in-stock at typical law firms. I gave my first writing sample a chance, and held off writing this review since some people mentioned that it'll come out on the darker side of copper once fully dried. Nope. It didn't work for me. It looks like I'm a schoolteacher marking up an assignment in red. Lastly, based on the reviews I saw before ordering Ancient Copper, I was hoping to have maybe the slightest hint of shading on some paper. Nope. With a 1.1 stub nib on paper in the office — and papers mailed to me from other law offices — this ink doesn't do anything fun, at all. It's just a big disappointment for me.

This is one of my favorite inks to write with, it behaves well with fine and extra fine nibs, but feathers a bit on cheap paper with thicker nibs. It is not a water resistant ink though, it will turn illegible if it gets wet.