Platinum - Mixable Earth Brown

Platinum Mixable Earth Brown - Ink Drop

Earth Brown is part of Platinum’s Mixables series. This collection consists of nine inks designed to be freely mixed to create custom colors without fear of crusting in the pen or creating other problems. Of course, the nine can also be used without mixing, and that’s how I’ve been using Earth Brown.

Earth Brown made a nice 30 Inks 30 Days Challenge entry!

Visually, this ink has a nice, rich, luscious coffee brown base color. On uncoated papers, it’s very close to a classic, medium brown. On premiums, a fairly dark edge halo develops, which adds nice definition, but none can be found on office copy. Coated premiums have a slightly stronger halo, which frames strokes very nicely. This is a decent shading ink on premiums, but on coated premiums it shades the strongest. Dark areas darken slightly from the base, but light areas are where things get interesting. Light areas bring out a vibrant, peach-pink, resulting in peachy-orange accents on stroke ends. The contrast between shadings is high and dramatic.

Beautiful variety and a nice dark edge

As a writing ink, Earth Brown is quite nice. It’s smooth and comfortable, with a fairly wet flow. Strokes were sharp and clean on all six test papers. The halo gives it nice depth and definition, and the shading really pops with personality. Drying was 15 seconds on most premiums (strangely, Rhodia was 25-30), and office copy dried in 5 seconds.

Drying was very fast on the swatch card!

Earth Brown is a very nice ink on its own, but the peach shading won’t be for everyone. I haven’t tried mixing colors, but I’m confident that this is a very safe ink in the pen, and it performs very well on the page. If you like the color, you’ll like the ink.

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