I was gifted with a bottle of Noodler's Yellow ink that arrived safe and sound on my doorstep today.

I can't imagine writing with it even on colored paper and when used as a highlighter color over other FP ink the dark color does all sorts of unpleasant things. It is OK as a highlighter on printed material such as books, but it doesn't seem to like slick, coated, magazine paper.

So that leaves mixing.

What do you do with your Noodler's Yellow?

Inquiring minds want to know.

I want to know, too!

Andy

I personally don't have any Yellow, however I've heard of mixing it with black.

Yellow, yes, mix. Melnicki got me started on mixing, then Limner in Sept 07 did some work on CMYK colors mixing. Very interesting reading and the charts are great.

Have added Noodlers Yellow to Zhivago as other suggested, that was ok. Another time added turquoise to an empty but not rinsed black cartridge, still pretty black... then added a drop of yellow and got a pretty dark green, black.

Have heard of other adding a drop of yellow to some browns.

Look at the charts on CMYK and you'll get some great ideas.

Nice gift.

You could also try adding yellow to reds to make orange.

You could make greens by adding blue to your yellow, or black to your yellow.

If you have a purple that seems to vivid, some yellow will make it more dull.

Figure when mixing that you start with more of the LIGHTER color, which would be the yellow.
You might also encounter certain colors of ink that contain much stronger or weaker dyes. Those
Pear Tree pens tiny sample bottles would be a good size to use for trying out new recipes. It's
good to write down the proportions in the recipes.

I like to use yellow to mix up lighter shades of green and orange. It's also nice to make dark amber/yellow tones to write with.

Hey hey! I've not thought much about this topic, but your comment has got ye olde noodle stirring about... I might have to try this - thanks for posting such a neat idea!

- R

Mixing, as per Limner's marvelous charts, with excellent results.

Simon

When I was young, I knew kids who would blow out eggs, fill them with ink and throw them at the assistant principal's house on the night before Halloween.

Bad boys!

It's sad that old skills are often forgotten.

So, Andy, I don't have Noodler's Yellow, only Goldfinch, which is bulletproof, and also completely useless as-is. I like to slightly tint it to get a more usable ink. Just a drop of a brown or a red or a grey in a converter-full. Another fun thing to do is to chase an ink with yellow and see what comes out, but then it's hardly repeatable. I keep doing it (about two or three fills) until it's illegible, then I start over again.

Yesterday I mixed together some DIY-Golden-Brown (to make a bulletproof version -- Goldfinch plus Eternal Brown, plus a bit of Djinn of the Eternal Flame, and some water because I'm using it in a flexie)... I was left yearning for a brighter yellow (Goldfinch loses its pop when you mix with it), to give it the glow that Golden Brown has... If I had Noodler's Yellow I would have added it.

You can get some super-weird lime greens if you mix with blues and greens. Great shading, too!