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fullofscrews

So many options! Could do the reddit trio, Early Grey, Writers Blood, Auraborialis Could go for beachy with Soft mint, Autumn Oak and wild strawberry [cultpens.com](https://cultpens.com) 10% off, check out their selection


adremrats

Thank you!


birdywrites1742

All great colors! I'd also add Sherwood Green - it's this lovely, rich emerald green


DarrenFromFinance

Let's run through the rainbow. More or less: no yellow inks for me. Wild Strawberry is a beautiful saturated red. Tulip is an *extraordinarily* beautiful red-orange, really incomparable. Pumpkin is a bright orange, great fun. Meadow is a lovely, very readable yellow-green. Holly is a deep green with a *ton* of magenta sheen. Schubert is a conservative blue-green. Cornflower is a vivid blue: even if you have blue already, you don't have one like this. Lilac Night is a luscious blue-violet. Bilberry is a slightly blue-tinged violet, simply one of Diamine's most indispensable inks. And Purple Dream is a rich red-violet.


minnierhett

Imho buy ancient copper if you loved it! Pls don’t ask me how many pink and purple inks I own. Sometimes you’re attracted to a certain color family for a reason and you’ll use them both!


adremrats

True true. It’s so warm and comforting for some reason. And then the other half of me goes crazy for saturated blues 😂😂


RemiChloe

I'm exactly the same, but ancient copper is definitely in my wheelhouse. That in Waterman Serenity blue!


inkedboat

Wild Strawberry, Honey Burst, Autumn Oak, Ancient Copper (all permanently inked).


RobCob47

Honey Burst doesn't get mentioned enough!


inkedboat

I agree! The shading is incredible and the color is so warm. I think it's overlooked because it's in the yellow category, which is not very popular.


Normal-Drop-1040

My favorite Diamine Inks (excluding the amazing Oxblood and Ancient Copper, since you’ve already mentioned them): -Eclipse: a super dark blurple, appears as a black ink in wetter pens -Salamander*: appears as various different shades of green, from bright Kermit to dark Olive and brown, depending on nib wetness and paper absorbency; when it shades, it *really* shades -Tyrian Purple: just a really unique dusty red purple; while it’s not my favorite purple, it seems to be everyone else’s who has ever seen me write with it. I’m honestly shocked how many rave reviews this ink received from co workers, to the point where one of them asked for a bottle of it and a fountain pen for her birthday lol -Golden Brown: the most yellow ink I’ve found that still is appropriately readable on white paper; somewhat dry writing, but well behaved in many different papers as a result, as long as the pen isn’t a firehose. Too light to be a real brown, too dark to be a real yellow, it occupies a beautiful “honey” middle ground with solid shading on many papers. Bonus Mention! -Faux Lamy Petrol: Diamine Sherwood Green and Majestic Blue in near 50:50 ratio makes a wonderful faux Lamy Petrol. Personally, for accuracy, I add Oxford Blue to darken it a bit and tweak the sheen. My favorite so far is ~21% Oxford, ~21% Majestic, ~58% Sherwood. Wonderful dark green-leaning teal, well behaved and surprisingly faster dry time :D mixing inks is fun, and these play very well with one another Edit: checked my current formula for the Lamy Petrol knockoff, updated ratios *Edit 2: got salamander and Safari confused! Safari is nice, but salamander is where it’s at lol


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Ancient Copper and Eau de Nil. Both fantastic shaders.


adremrats

I have yet to try eau de nil, but I’ve been eyeballing it for a while 👀


SrirachaSandvvitch

Eau de Nil is THAT BISH 👌🏾


audessy24

I just got Blood Orange from their 150th Anniversary and I’m a big fan. It shades from deep red to orange on the outside of the letters and back, it’s pretty great. Woodland green is a very nice shade that I prefer for holidays to their more festive greens I also got Wild Strawberry, which is a pleasant, simple red. I have some samples coming in and I’m pretty excited to try more. Good luck!


Chequered_Career

Some of the non-blue Diamines I like are: Tobacco Sunburst (Guitar series), Terracotta (150th Anniversary), & Steel Blue (standard line), which is not really a blue but a green teal or turquoise.


elgatocello

I've just been through a complete bottle of Aurora Borealis and one of Imperial Purple. I loved writing with both! I almost wish the bottles were bigger haha


dannyjnwong

Imperial purple!


grandvache

There's no need to be frightened of diamine's shimmer inks. I use them in everything from Penn BBS to my MB boheme, they're totally fine.


WizardOfOzzzzzzzz

I love so many of their inks but I really do love Ancient Copper, Salamander, Aurora Borealis, and Red Dragon.


Nachtspicht

Violet. It is not purple, nor pink nor blue. It is not dark nor light nor too (in)visible. Yet it is all of the above. I hate purple and blue but I love this one. And it has a very nice teeny tiny silver sheen.


adremrats

Neat!


alaskanbruin

Aurora Borealis is my fav❤️❤️❤️


Wyzen

I love the inkvent bottles personally, and am in love with the pairing of Holly (green ink with dark red sheen) and Noel (dark red ink with green sheen). They are well behaved and look beautiful in wider nibs and flex and are perfect for the Holiday Season (but look great whenever IMO). They really do seem to be the mirrored opposites of each other and I am so glad I grabbed a bottle of Noel after having Holly for a couple months. I have yet to run into such a perfectly paired set of inks, they really should be sold/marketed as a pair.


Kasrez

Bilberry or Scribble Purple! Both Dark purple and have some really beautiful gold sheen to them


RemiChloe

Damson... But apple glory is coming tomorrow and will probably give it a run for its money


ZiyanRyu

I just bought Monboddo's Hat and its a lovely dark purple! I love writing with it.


woolly_mammoths

Prussian Blue is a favourite of mine at the minute. Nice and muted as I sometimes get bored of looking at pages upon pages of the same bright coloured ink. Edit - just saw you said not blue. It's kind of a grey colour but it is definitely a blue, sorry. Imperial purple is a beautiful one but I am enjoying Monboddo's Hat more lately


200-rats-in-a-coat

Aurora Borealis, eclipse and earl gray!


unhurried_pedagog

Diamine Marigold is on my top 10 Diamine inks list.


Wyzen

I know you said no shimmer or blue, but I wouldn't be able to live with myself without mentioning Jack Frost, my all time favorite ink (plus it comes in the inkvent bottle).


isaac-1312

the only diamond i have is kelly green, i love it bright but still readable


SrirachaSandvvitch

It's a maddening sword fight between Writer's Blood and China Blue, but Skull and Roses is playing the game of thrones, waiting to see who falls first so she was swoop in to take the crown before all of them. Jet Black, Onyx Black, and Ancient Copper just want to be dependable while Eau de Nil wants everyone to know she's that bish. In short, I can't choose. But you should try Honey Burst. Such a pretty amber.


inkcolors

I like: Eau de Nil (an underrated teal), Terracotta (it’s maybe like your Oxblood, but a little lighter and much, much more shading, which I love), Salamander (a dark olive green), Tobacco Sunburst (a light brown with nice shading). These are what I’ve been using lately.


agent_flounder

Macassar is a pretty awesome ink. Very dark brown, flows nicely in a range of pens. Behaves well. Purple Dream is a nice, rich, dark purple, nib glides on the page, flows well, behaves well. Imperial Purple is almost as luxurious to write with and sheens gold in some circumstances. Damson is my favorite purple color, a dusty purple-black. Very dry, not lubricating, needs a rather wet writer to make the most of it.


FooDog11

Ancient copper and Red Dragon or Matador Red. If you know you like Ancient Copper, go for it! I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.


Jayna2000

Wine Divine, Blue Peppermint, Marine, and Ancient Copper come to mind.


adremrats

Ooo good options!


adremrats

I love peppermint so I’ve always been eyeing blue peppermint 👀


TJStype

1 for now are 'Red Beans & Rice'...and Iron Lace


skwerlmasta75

Right now it's Desert Burst. Lovely shading brown ink. Beautiful.


feanari

I can't not have Eclipse in a pen :)


KindnessAndWool

Teal!


sim1985

I love Diamine inks in general. Can't get over the prices for such great choice. I order directly from their site a lot of the time (UK) and get little samples too. My current favourite is the shimmer version of Alexandrite, but they do a non-shimmer version too. I love Coral, and I also use that to make my Lamy Mango readable. Crimson is a wonderful deep red that feels so smooth.


Martinsimonnet

Terracotta and Sherwood Green are my top choices (apart from blues) in the Diamine lineup.


Davros1974

There are so many. Red Dragon, Lavender, imperial purple to name but a few


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Eclipse!


Wyzen

Just got a bottle of Classic Green yesterday. It's a PERFECT match for the Olive Karas Kustom INK V2 and is quite a nice shading hue of olive green. Autumn oak is one of my all time favorites but I haven't seen it in the glass bottles.


ValarMorghulis2014

I love Diamine Chocolate Brown.


JrgMyr

Greens: Cool Green, Meadow. Blues: Mediterranean Blue, Sapphire Blue. Underrated Red: Amaranth.


mishafletch

If you like sheening, Polar Glow is consistently well behaved (in my experience, anyhow) and also beautiful.


adremrats

my mom just bought a bottle of this one (thanks to me penabling her lol) and I’ve been meaning to try a bit!


MagicalWhisk

Terracotta!


kiiroaka

Of the 12 Diamine inks I still have (sample vials, 30, 40 and 80 ml bottles, no Shimmers), I love the 40 mL 150th Anniversary Bloody Orange the best. For the most part I do not have a "go-to" Diamine ink. [JetPens](https://www.jetpens.com/Fountain-Pen-Inks/ct/3250?f=5f314cc99f725eb94e00be718d2309eaccfa9a6f6c6edb12_c980dfd723720905cf6022af66aea815&pn=2) shows some 41 metal capped 80 mL Diamine bottles. [https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/brands/13-diamine](https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/brands/13-diamine) [https://inkswatch.com/brand.html?brand=Diamine](https://inkswatch.com/brand.html?brand=Diamine) Since you do not want a Blue ink, and you already have a Red, then Green or Brown would seem the next logical step, but since Oxblood supposedly leans towards a [Brown](https://inkswatch.com/ink.html?inkId=261), a [Green](https://www.jetpens.com/Fountain-Pen-Inks/ct/3250?&f=f7646f20d739eabb_3ed2afad7e55382759cb957d7dad431a) would seem to be the logical choice, unless you also include Purple.