The pens, inks and notebooks of Faber-Castell’s “Graf von Faber-Castell” line are premium products. This Olive Green ink is the most expensive in my collection, setting me back € 29.- for 75 ml of ink, a per-millilitre price of € 0.39. In exchange, I received a gorgeous desaturated ink with quite some shading.
Olive Green is on the drier side, somewhat alleviated by the Lamy Studio’s juicy M-nib. It behaves very well, as already discussed above in the section dealing with the Studio’s writing performance. In wetter pens, Olive Green can get somewhat darker, but it always stays firmly located in the realm of less saturated inks. I’ve not experienced any sheen on any paper.
Perhaps this ink’s specific shade can be closely approximated by mixing or watering down similar inks and running the risk of affecting their performance. Out of the box (or rather, bottle), however, Olive Green offers a colour I haven’t yet come across in any other manufacturers’ lines.
