(Susan M. Pigott is a fountain pen collector, pen and paperholic, photographer, and professor. You can find more from Susan on her blog Scribalishess.)
To celebrate their one-year anniversary, Vinta Inks created Heritage Brown Pamana Ink. "Pamana" is the Filipino word for "heritage."
Heritage Brown is a brown-orange ink with lots of green sheen. On my Col-o-dex card, you can see the rich brown-orange-ish color in the swab. The writing and splats display the green sheen. In fact, there's so much green sheen that the brown is almost a secondary color.
Rhodia Dot Grid paper, which seems to suppress sheen, displays the true brown-orange color of the ink. My photos make it look lighter than it is in person. It's a rich rust color. The ink is wet, with a fairly long dry time, and it is not waterproof.
Chromatography demonstrates that Heritage Brown is comprised of several hues: lavender, lots of pink, orange, lime, and turquoise.
MD Cotton paper with a large ruling nib displays the variations of brown and orange and the thick green sheen. The sheen is evident even in the thinner writing.
I used Tomoe River Paper (52 gsm) for a writing exercise with a Lamy Vista medium nib. As you would expect, the paper brings out the sheen of the ink but only in bright light does the green dominate the brown. The swab shows both colors.
I wrote out a longer passage using my MD A5 Notebook Journal. This paper really brought out the brown-orange color (especially the orange).
Vinta Heritage Brown Pamana is a terrific ink if you love lots of sheen. The base color is a rich, rusty brown that leans heavily towards orange, but green sheen overwhelms the brown on all of the papers I tested except for Rhodia. The ink performed well and flowed wet and smooth in my Lamy Vista medium nib.
You can purchase this ink from Vanness Pens. It costs $12.50 for a 30ml bottle and $3.10 for a 4ml sample.
(Vanness Pens provided this ink to Pen Addict free of charge for review purposes.)
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