De Atramentis - Document Yellow - Ink Review

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Hi all and welcome to Day 20 of Duck’s Doodles Inkmas.

We’re in the home stretch here folks. I’ve been so focused on inks I’ve hardly gotten my Christmas shopping done....thankfully I  have a mall here in town!

Today I pulled out De Atramentis Document Yellow. I’m actually really happy with this one, since this will let me see if the color of an ink affects the formula. If you’d like to read my Document Blue review you can check it out here 

Okay, let’s take a look:

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Writing

This ink is just a smooth writing as it’s blue counter part. It’s pretty thick and viscous, and goes down wet.

This ink is designed to stay where it’s put and it 100% does.

There’s no feathering on my Rhodia or Field Notes, and only a little bleeding through on my Field Notes.

Dry Time

Looks like the color does affect the dry time, but only a little.

The blue was mostly dry in 5 seconds, and totally dry at 10.

Where as this yellow was mostly dry at 10 seconds and 100% dry at 15 seconds 

Water Test

Color also affects the water test- when I review water proof or water resistant inks I’ll drop water immediately after writing and then about 2 minutes after. 

The ink definitely stayed down when water was put on right away, but some was pulled up

After two minutes of drying it absolutely was cemented into the pages.

This is different from Document Blue, where it was totally locked in from the second it hit the page.

Color

This is more highlighter yellow than an actual highlighter. It’s a beautiful, bright yellow that can be like staring into the sun if you’re not careful. I love the brightness to be totally honest.

But it’s impractical. You can hardly see it while writing on white paper. 

It’s pretty flat, in terms of there being no variation, but this being a professional-aimed ink beautiful tones aren’t the aim

Verdict


Even though there was minor differences in performance the writing experience was nearly identical. All in all, I was pleasantly surprised that De Atramentis was able to have such consistency in the Document Ink line, even with such dramatically different colors. 

I don’t have a use for a yellow that will outlive me, but I really love just how intense this formula is.

Thanks all, happy writing see you tomorrow for day 21!