Who uses yellow coloured legal pads?

[guy]

Just to be different, I fancy a change. I currently use Rhodia A4 pads in work, this is a brilliant white in colour and contrasts nicely with my Diamine Sapphire Blue ink. However, I saw somebody use some yellow legal paper in a meeting and fancied giving it a try.

 

Does anyone have experience, or perhaps even use yellow pads on a daily basis with fountain pens. Any problems, any supplier recommendations. Or perhaps you feel the need to persuade me to stick with Rhodia???

[JohnS-MI]

Just to be different, I fancy a change. I currently use Rhodia A4 pads in work, this is a brilliant white in colour and contrasts nicely with my Diamine Sapphire Blue ink. However, I saw somebody use some yellow legal paper in a meeting and fancied giving it a try.

 

Does anyone have experience, or perhaps even use yellow pads on a daily basis with fountain pens. Any problems, any supplier recommendations. Or perhaps you feel the need to persuade me to stick with Rhodia???

 

I have used Ampad Gold Fibre in Canary Yellow. It is the same quality as their white (quite good) relative to feathering, bleed, etc; I use the white "all the time.". No problem with black ink, but the paper color affects (adversely, in my view) the perceived color of most inks. I don't like it and avoid it unless there is no choice. I've never tried their Ivory and I might like that as a more subtle color, but I dislike Canary Yellow (quite intensely. Lets be honest, I HATE it.)

[donwinn]

I have not used the Rhodia; however, I have used both yellow and white legal pads. The Quill (www.quillcorp.com - not affiliated) yellow pads are very FP frinedly, as are their white ones. Sparco brand legal pads are more manila/vanilla than yellow, and not particularly fp friendly. The Office Depot yellow pad turns my Parker 45 M into a B with much feathering.

 

Quill is web or phone orders only, to my knowledge. Sparco likewise (Vitec Online.com is the vendor for Sparco -- at least where we get them).

 

Hopefully I have shed more light than heat.

 

Donnie

 

[hardyb]

I don't use the yellow because of the ink contrast issue (note: I quite long ago) but have made my own pads using templates pulled off the internet and cream, blue, gray decent quality injet paper and even stationary sheets in the 8.5X11 size. Load the graphic template, put the paper in the printer, print and get my craft talented administrative support person to bind them up. I have also used Gold Fiber America's First and Finest Writing Pad (item no. 20-007) from Staples. These are the same size as my home made ones but are wire bound, micro-perforated, medium rule and a nice ivory color.

[sfeinman]

Rhodia makes a yellow lined legal pad

[Poetman]

I've only known and used canary colored legal pads. I've seen the white ones, but I grew up with my father always using the yellow ones, and everyone I've seen has always used yellow. I definitely prefer the yellow. Sure, the ink might not stand out as much on yellow paper, but I've never had any adverse reaction. I think yellow legal pad has more character and style. If I use white paper, I like graph style paper or plain white sheets.

[tangent]

I only use black ink with yellow pads, so that the color shift issue isn't a problem. All other colors go on various grades of white paper only.

[Wolverine1]

I use the Ampad Evidence Gold Bond legal pads in yellow almost exclusively. They work very well with my fountain pens, and the inks I use- Aurora Blue, Quink Black, and Waterman Florida Blue. The only feathering or bleed-though hapens when I use a very wet writing pen.

[jpolaski]

I picked up a pack of the Ampad Gold Fibre yellow pads. I can't wait until I'm done with them so I can get something different. The paper is wonderful, but the color does odd things to the color of my ink, and I don't like it. It would be fine if I used black inks, but I tend towards blues and greens and browns. If you like ink in colors, don't go yellow. That's my adivce

[guy]

Thanks to everyone for their advice... I will probably stick with my Rhodia as I cannot bear to give up Sapphire Blue ink. Also getting Ampad in the UK is proving to be somewhat difficult....

[phillychuck]

Thanks to everyone for their advice... I will probably stick with my Rhodia as I cannot bear to give up Sapphire Blue ink. Also getting Ampad in the UK is proving to be somewhat difficult....

 

Black n'Red certainly should be available to you, and I have found both their yellow and white pads to be fp friendly.

[D.R.Mabuse]

Guilty. I make continual notes on one as I answer the phone, so I'm pretty well tied to one all day, at work.

[Souflay123]

I have not used the Rhodia; however, I have used both yellow and white legal pads. The Quill (www.quillcorp.com - not affiliated) yellow pads are very FP frinedly, as are their white ones. Sparco brand legal pads are more manila/vanilla than yellow, and not particularly fp friendly. The Office Depot yellow pad turns my Parker 45 M into a B with much feathering.

 

Quill is web or phone orders only, to my knowledge. Sparco likewise (Vitec Online.com is the vendor for Sparco -- at least where we get them).

 

Hopefully I have shed more light than heat.

 

Donnie

 

 

I love the white Quill ones. they work great with FPs, and when i get board handle my doodling with sharpie highlighters quite well

[Paddler]

I think the yellow color is supposed to be easier on the eyes than white; your writing has less contrast. So if you write/read a lot in bright light, yellow pads could produce less eyestrain.

 

Paddler

 

[Wall Street Professor]

I find the store brand yellow pads (Staples and Sam's Club) in both the 5x7" and 8.5x11" sizes to be very fountain pen friendly. Ditto for the Mead composition books.

[blueiris]

I have not used the Rhodia; however, I have used both yellow and white legal pads. The Quill (www.quillcorp.com - not affiliated) yellow pads are very FP frinedly, as are their white ones. Sparco brand legal pads are more manila/vanilla than yellow, and not particularly fp friendly. The Office Depot yellow pad turns my Parker 45 M into a B with much feathering.

 

Quill is web or phone orders only, to my knowledge. Sparco likewise (Vitec Online.com is the vendor for Sparco -- at least where we get them).

 

Hopefully I have shed more light than heat.

 

Donnie

 

Thanks for the website, Donnie. I saw that they have Quill pads in other colors in the Premium line (which looks like it has the same paper as the Standard, but the chipboard is heavier). I'm hoping they are as friendly to fountain pens as the ones you have.

 

Can you tell me, is the paper "extra smooth" as stated in the description? Can you write on both sides of the page, or does your ink bleed through?

 

I'm using some Ampad Gold Fibre (Retro) legal pads that are very fountain pen friendly, with 20lb paper, but the paper isn't as smooth as I like, and it actually seems a little dry (sucks up ink without feathering, but feels dry). It's actually nice paper, but I'd sacrifice some of the weight of the paper if it were smoother and less dry. But I'm also hoping to use both sides of the page.

[turbodiesel80@]

We have the Grand & Toy yellow legal variety at my work place......i find that my nibs get gunked up after long periods of use....if i use a finer, toothy nib it tends to rip the paper sometimes.

 

My Pilot VP seems to work the best with this paper......either that or my Parker ballpoints.

 

Alan

[wejohns]

I find the store brand yellow pads (Staples and Sam's Club) in both the 5x7" and 8.5x11" sizes to be very fountain pen friendly. Ditto for the Mead composition books.

 

 

Just for personal jollies I recently did a comparison of 11 types of paper trying to judge which had the least feathering and nicest color. This was totally subjective using pens and inks I had available. I found that a product called "Docket Gold -- Premium Writing Paper" from the local Office Depot to be a surprisingly FP friendly paper. In this case I was using Waterman black and Waterman Florida blue in a MB which laid down a very wet line. I just rechecked that page and noticed essentially no bleed through to the other side of the page, either. Just my 2-bits.

 

Cheers,

 

Bill J