Fountain Pen Ink, Imperial Purple 80ml

This is the first Diamine ink colour that didn’t wow me. My swatches look like dried blood and there’s no intensity in the pen strokes. The price was okay and I will use the ink for art projects, but the insipid colour surprised me. It looks okay on watercolour paper, but is less interesting in a journal which took work to get any intensity. Ancient Copper is more interesting, and still not my favourite but more enjoyable than this.

It flows so beautifully, the color is gorgeous. Will buy more colors.

El color es intenso, y la tinta parece un poco densa, no hace ni un parche, ni salta, no la he probado mucho, pero en un par de hojas A5 no me hizo ni un salto. Seguro que cogeré alguna más de la marca. Me ha encantado.

I was very disappointed when I received this ink to see that it was brown. Very, very distinctly brown. I was about two weeks past the return window when I opened the bottle, so I chalked it up to a loss. A year later, I see a post on Reddit from someone else baffled that their Autumn Oak was brown. I emailed Diamine to ask if they knew what was causing the inconsistent colors - and even though I made it clear that I was fine and had purchased the ink a full year previously, they sent a new bottle out. It's glorious and exactly the color I had been searching for last year. It shades beautifully in any pen, but put it in a flex pen and it's like jumping into a pile of maple leaves on a crisp fall afternoon. You can practically smell autumn. I'm absolutely thrilled with it, and while the brown ink I originally received is actually fairly nice, true Autumn Oak blows it out of the water. It even looks differently in the bottle. My conclusions are that either I received a bottle that was improperly stored and had oxidized (see the last photo for someone else's experience) or that it had been purchased, tampered with or switched for another ink, and returned. It's drastically different from the stuff Diamine sent me directly. Given that other reviews here are largely positive, all I can say is check your ink before the return window closes. I definitely would have rated this product lower last year, but Diamine's customer service is flawless. Hopefully it's just a fluke on Amazon's part, rather than poor storage conditions that may affect other people looking to buy this lovely ink.

Eine der besten Tinten die ich kenne. Diamine steht für flüssige Schreibweise und sie trocknet auch nicht so schnell aus wie andere dickflüssigere Tinten. Grade mit den Jinhao Chinakrachern passt Sie gut zusammen.