Green Inks Comparison #1

[@nauci]

I thought I liked vibrant green inks but then I saw Colorverse Crab Nebula and may as well throw the rest of my collection away. My heart 😍

[@roxiesossa3210]

I keep coming back to your ink comparisons when I fancy trying a different ink! 💚

[@UrbanHafner]

I also agree on Chiku-Rin. Such a lovely colour and it's nicely wet, which makes it so nice to write with. I really need to get a bottle!

[@PenultimateDave]

Strangely about a year ago I was like URRRRGH YUCK for Chiku-Rin, but then I found Akkerman Van Huysum's Sap Groen and that colour has really grown on me to the point I thought I would give Chiku-Rin a try, and now I love Chiku-Rin.

[@animula6908]

The vibrant green looks vibrant from here. It really stands out in the handwriting. Beautiful shades

[@Sonicman415]

I love Diamine inks.. that Pilot Irushizuku Chiku-Rin is fab. Thanks. I just got Diamine Petrol. Great, not too blue, nor very yellow.

[@stacy5576]

The Akkerman Van Huysum's Sap Groen ink reminds me of The Shire. My favourite kind of green. I want it. Thank you for this video!

[@PenultimateDave]

You are welcome!

[@briannap.1738]

I really like the Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Goldgrün! The swatches on pen store sites don’t do it justice. After seeing this video, I definitely want to add it to my collection!

[@chrislj2890]

Monteverde Olivine, Diamine Kelly Green, Iroshizuku Shin-ryoku, Diamine Sherwood Green, Noodler's Gruen Cactus, Visconti Green, Kaweco Green and Private Reserve Avocado are some I've used, besides Chiku-rin, C.D. Vibrant Green and R&K Alt-Goldgrun. I also didn't care for the pale Chiku-rin until I used it with a broader nib.

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks! I have Diamine Sherwood Green, Visconti Green, Cd Vibrant Green and Alt-Goldgrun but will have to look into the others.

[@karan360s]

Being new to inks, I just had realization that how ladies choose their nail paint or bag color , 10 shades of pink :P lol....haha....i myself am looking forward to buy some green and yellow inks, i have a Parker Vector Fine.

[@MrAndrew1953]

A favourite green ink of mine is Noodler's Sequoia Green in a 3oz (90ml) bottle that I use in a Monteverde Sequoia green /black fountain pen. Another green I like and use as a default, easy to transport ink is Robert Oster Forest Green. I love the clever design of the Akkerman bottles. The Caran d'Ache put a different slant on things.

[@maiaallman4635]

Now you're making me crave writing with my fountain pens and my inks

[@lizdelisle1912]

I really like the Diamine Meadow green ! I’ve been looking for a green that’s not bluish green. The three greens I have are viridian green. Excited to see the full spectrum of greens available in ink!

[@arthurdoctolero8813]

Akkerman inks are so elegant, so does the bottles.

[@catherinehubbard1167]

Currently my two favorite green inks are Monteverde Green and Diamine Green Black. Thanks for the review!

[@michellelu1997]

I enjoy Diamine Meadow for grassy-cheerful green, Graf von Faber-Castell Moss Green for deep-sophisticated green, Pelikan 4001 Dark Green (very similar option is Robert Oster Green Diamond) for medium-greeny green. Thank you for making these ink by color range comparison videos! I found them very delightful to watch and have discovered some nice inks through these. Looking forward to more of these videos in the future... 😊

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks Michelle, glad you're liking them. I should have a lot more coming soon!

[@johnathanrhoades7751]

Favorite greens are Papier Plume Forest Green, Sailor Bungubox Norwegian Wood, Sailor Epunard, and Sailor Tokiwa Matsu. Mont Blanc...Irish Green? Is also quite lovely.

[@bobsaffron8284]

Lovely palette. That Shakour pen is quite fascinating. I'm sorely tempted. Thanks for the review.

[@georgewilborn8997]

You are the first person I have heard who tells you how to empty the top reservoir in the Akkerman bottles.

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks, I consider it quite essential because it took me a good 5 mins to work it out fully. I know many might think that strange on how long it took as it seems quite straight forward but in essence sometimes the ink drained into the larger reservoir and other times it didn't. I also try to empty the top reservoir to ensure that you don't have a small amount of ink left in the top reservoir where the water part of the ink could then evaporate as the amount of ink there is very reduced compared to the rest of the bottle.

[@clemensu.5358]

For a vibrant green try Graf von Faber Castell Viper Green. Also I do like Olive Green from GvFC. It‘s a really unique and natural looking ink.

[@WantedVisual]

I'm starting to think Akkerman put as many Dutch diphtongs in their ink names as possible to make it impossible for anyone who speaks English to pronounce them.

[@ping5580]

that marble thing is neat

[@PenultimateDave]

Yes it really is good for trapping the ink and allowing you to fill from the top of the bottle. So many bottles used by ink companies are not that functional when you get down to the last 1-2 ml of ink in the bottle and some not even functional when you get below 30ml of ink.

[@peteazouz6072]

Nice selections again, picked up a couple of new inks that I'm ordering now.. not that I need more ink, but hey going back to my school days "You'll never know enough unless you know what is more than enough" - W Blake.

[@denspens9035]

Sigh, more inks on the wish list.

[@zeroed4x]

I want all of them, thanks

[@pamelaboxall7015]

Oh, green inks, how you do make my heart sing! Firstly, I love this selection and there are several here that really caught my eye. My own favourites are Graf von Faber-Castell Moss Green, J Herbin Lierre Sauvage and Lamy Crystal Peridot. The game I'm playing this year (with slight interruption for intergalactic viral crisis) is to only buy inks available from my local retailer (Jarrolds - the independent department store in Norwich, UK) so when it's open again I will be trying out some green from the likes of Waterman, Cross and Montblanc. I will confess I've broken the rules of this game during lockdown by ordering inks from Cult Pens because it suddenly became imperative that I try out Graf von Faber-Castell's Burned Orange. But if you can't break the rules in an intergalactic crisis, when can you?

[@PenultimateDave]

Graf von Faber-Castell Moss Green looks nice, and to date I don't have a single GvFc ink in my collection so may have to look at adding some. I've been eyeing up J Herbin Lierre Sauvage for some time, it looks quite nice, but I do hate those small D shaped bottles they have. Lamy Crystal Peridot looks like my shade of green. Haven't we all broken lockdown to get some inks or pens delivered? I recently picked up the new Pelikan Edelstein Moonstone which I'm loving.

[@mrpilotsapien7705]

I have Monteverde Yosemite green....Excellent green!!! Right on the shade of green perhaps both of us would agree upon. I 'bank vault' save it cause it has won me over of my selections of green inks. I would encourage you to get a sample of that whenever you go shopping.... as a small favor to me that would you compare it to the akkerman berzuidenwoodgruen and Montblanc Irish green to see which one is the riches darkest of the three.... as they are the ones im apt to acquire as soon as they are available (Akkermans are hard to come by in the US). No need for a video but if you could provide a comment reply on the results I would appreciate it... Ive been troubled with ordering from outside as some of my simple purchases havent at all arrived... hence my waryness to order from the home site. and asking if you to see the color difference

[@kevinu.k.7042]

Thanks for reviewing these. Green is my problem colour. It's the only colour where I can't quite get the colour I want. In the end I settled on Diamine Sherwood Green brightened with a little Mont Blanc Irish green. I do hope you cover more green inks. As always, I really enjoy your ink reviews. Thanks.

[@PenultimateDave]

I was the same with green until I started to explore it a lot more.

[@UrbanHafner]

I love the colour of Diamine Meadow. My issue with it is that it's fairly dry so I need to pick the right pen for it and/or add a wetting agent to it.

[@PenultimateDave]

That's interesting, I haven't found it dry but that's probably because most of my pens are very wet pens. I do find it has great shading properties in the pens that I use it in that are wet. Do you prefer wet or dry nibs?

[@UrbanHafner]

@@PenultimateDave I now prefer wet pens, so it's less of an issue. It somehow still feels different with a well lubricated ink.

[@katjaengelkamp3452]

Thank you for this comparison, very useful!! I love the Sapgroen (great how you stumble over the Dutch language🤪, maybe you should practice with Stephen pronouncing the inks in Haags (the accent of The Hague)) and Iroshizuku Chiku-Rin. I guess you’d love Akkerman nr 28, Hofkwartier Groen, like I do!

[@PenultimateDave]

I'm pretty sure as much as I would practice I would still fail miserably, I'm not a great pronouncer of foreign inks haha. I think Hofkwartier Goren is one I have on my list for my next Akkerman order, but I've now seen that I need to order 8 bottles to get free shipping, otherwise I get charged effectively a bottle for shipping.

[@audreycaldeira-hankey2951]

My favourite green/blue ink is R&K Verdigris, because I like dark coloured pigmented inks. Have you tried this one?

[@davidalangordon]

Hi Dave, I like your pen video's. Your pens are amazing. I wonder why you didn't sample any of Noodler's green inks?

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks Dave. I only have had 5x Noodler's inks to date and most were red, pink or blue, I don't have any green inks from Noodler's.

[@rebeccawhite2582]

I bought Noodler's Bad Green Gator but my son really liked it, so I gave it to him. Will probably buy another bottle soon.

[@jacobliddiard158]

What would be the closest ink from Diamine to Akkerman Denneweg Groen? Thank you so much

[@PenultimateDave]

I haven't tried sampling a load but I'd say somewhere close to Diamine Green Umber and Cool Green.

[@CatherineC.2123]

I think you are awfully brave to say the actual name of the Akkerman inks rather than using their numbers.

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks! I probably butcher the names compared to a native dutch speaker though.

[@CatherineC.2123]

There is a KZbin video called "Akkerman Ink Dutch Pronunciation."

[@Richard_Barnes]

Love Green inks! All I use is Montblanc Irish Green. Amazing colour and shading from it. I have 3 inks from Akkerman and I’m really struggling with it in my pens. My nibs all seem to dry out and become more of a drag and not very good with laying the inks down. They seem so dry to me, I don’t know what else to say about them. Any ideas? Akkerman - Israels’ Zeeblauw; SBRE Brown; Delfts Blauw. Pens are a Medium Nakaya; EF Montblanc 149 and a Pilot Custom 823 with WA nib. They all hate the ink. Crazy.

[@PenultimateDave]

Hi Richard, Montblanc Irish Green is a great green. For your Akkerman inks, they are made by Diamine so should be pretty good. I don't have Israels’ Zeeblauw but SBRE Brown sometimes I can find to be very wet and in other pens very dry, it really depends on how wet or dry the nib writes. I tend to find in broads they are very wet, but in a F or M can be a little dry, same for Delfts Blauw.

[@Richard_Barnes]

Penultimate Dave, that’s just what I needed to hear to confirm my amateur suspicions! My nibs are Indeed F or a drier M. Thx for replying 😀👍🏻

[@giuliobaecker5476]

Do you have a video on Shin-Ryuko? By Pilot

[@PenultimateDave]

Not yet it's an ink I don't currently have.

[@ronaldthered6650]

Franklin Christoph Black Forest matches green arco ;)

[@PenultimateDave]

I think I may have a sample of that somewhere.

[@luciliusart5245]

Thank you for the comparison! Its very helpful! May i ask if the ink Akkerman Dutch Masters Van Huysum's Sap Groen waterproof?

[@PenultimateDave]

I haven't tried to see if Van Huysum's Sapgroen is waterproof or not, but I suspect it's not as it has a lot of shading to it. Most of the inks won't be permanent / waterproof inks unless they are listed as permanent or India inks.

[@luciliusart5245]

@@PenultimateDave Thank you ❤

[@Oldnose63]

@@PenultimateDave I don’t think shading has anything to do with waterproofness. Akkerman nr 10 “IJzer galnoten “ Iron Gall shades a lot but is waterproof. But van Huysums is not waterproof. Pity if that is a dealbreaker because it is a great wet supershading ink.

[@MrAndrew1953]

Very interesting. Just wondering if you could print the brand names of inks, name of inks. Hard to pick up with handwriting if you haven't seen these inks before.

[@PenultimateDave]

Hi Andrew, I am actually printing the names of inks and brand names on the page already, I'm not writing in cursive. I can probably look to update the descriptions of the videos to include the names in there if anyone is having problems reading my handwriting.

[@PenultimateDave]

Inks compared in this video - Rohrer & Klingner Alt Goldrün - Akkerman Denneweg Groen - Akkerman Bezuidenwoudgroen - Akkerman Dutch Masters Van Huysum's Sap Groen - Caran D'ache Vibrant Green - Diamine Meadow - Lamy Green - Diamine Apple Glory - Pilot Iroshizuku Chku-Rin

[@christopherstarr7607]

For me the Diamine meadow was too bright, but the halo was amazing. I switched to Robert Oster Jade for being a bit darker.

[@PenultimateDave]

Yes Diamine Meadow is quite a bright ink, although Diamine Jade is even brighter.

[@KingOfHearts901]

Where do you purchase your Akkerman inks from in the UK?

[@PenultimateDave]

Unfortunately there’s nowhere in the UK that sells them, you have to buy from Akkerman in Netherlands.

[@mrpilotsapien7705]

Its probably just one person (me) whos interested in this request....... but i'm finally sold on caving in to getting my first akerman ink. Those greens you have are all very ?DELICIOUS? (in other words they look very Attractive!) I'm doing a little homework to see which of those would I really like to get in the 120ml bottle and of course have to choose wisely (which anyone with The "F.P. virus" over 'level Three' long ago has lost sensibility to do as you're prone to make a rash purchase regardless of their properties)..... in short, they all look very attractive.... I just need to know which one I set my sights on that really gravitates towards me the most will be acquired in the 120ml bottle and the other"(s)"[depending on favorability] will be in the 60ml bottle(s)..... Are these all of your akerman "green" inks in the ''Green inks comparison videos" or would a hope of a akerman grand comparison video project just happen haphazardly to slip in your queue of product projects later on? Aside from all of this, My guilty envious pleasure; the ink mechanism of the bottle you demonstrated made this urgent inquisition no better on my rationale. By the time you read this perhaps i've gone through all of your green inks videos and hopefully "which I doubt" could help me settle on a few; other brands yes but, I'm locked targeted on those Akermans.

[@PenultimateDave]

I don’t have all of akkerman green inks but check out Green Inks Comparison #3 for some more.

[@mrpilotsapien7705]

@@PenultimateDave I have been playing the videos over and over.... I'm hooked.

[@davemcclure9685]

What type of paper are you using?

[@PenultimateDave]

Tomoe River 52gsm

[@SouravBiswas-mr5un]

Can someone please tell me the dye used for green...

[@PenultimateDave]

I doubt you will find out, every ink manufacturer will use different dyes, so unless you're close to them it's usually a closely guarded secret on which dyes they use for which inks.

[@qiqerod]

Which fountain pen is that you use?

[@PenultimateDave]

The pen is the William Shakour Titan, it’s a pen made by a UK Pen Collector William Shakour. I have a review of two of his Titan's at kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ2to3tsjpl4mNk and another one at kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqjIfqWGfNmUa9U He doesn’t have a website, he’s on Instagram as instagram.com/williamshakour and can make pens to order.

[@qiqerod]

@@PenultimateDave awesome. Thank you 👍🏻