Ink Colour Mixing Wiht The Cmyk System?

[Morbus Curiositas]

Dear FPN Friends,

 

I today received the Following De Atramentis document inks.

 

Red, Yellow Cyan Magenta, Black

 

I already own Green brown, blue and dark blue and the thinning agent for Document inks....

 

Wiht these CMYK colours I should be able to mix any colour and wiht the mix any shade of those colours....

 

Unfortunately I am sort of a sillt t..t I do not understand anythink about mixing wiht CMYK.... Looked it up inthe internet but that did not help me...

 

Can anyone of you give advise here....

 

Like a colourchart and how to mix these colurs to create secondary tertiary and quartery colour...

 

Like Brown, Green Orange.... But also like the variations like

 

Purple>>> Violet

Brown>>> Sepia Saddle Brown etc etc...

 

How can a thinning agent help here....

 

Please help out a nitwit

 

regards Peter

[Ted A]

There is a lot of investigation you can do.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/40629-noodlers-cmyk-color-mixes/page-3

 

Also check the Ink Mixing forum.

[Morbus Curiositas]

There is a lot of investigation you can do.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/40629-noodlers-cmyk-color-mixes/page-3

 

Also check the Ink Mixing forum.

Thanks ted that was quick...

 

Question I saw a colour chart there...

 

I guess I first have to mix two colour like Blue and yellow and mix from there to get other colour like.

 

 

Yellow and Magenta/red = Orange + Ink X = Next colour..

 

Hw about brown or sepia

[Lou Erickson]

One of the posts has swabs with exact mix suggestions. I see several that would be brown and a sepiaish one.

[AllenG]

http://www.astromarketing.ca/Pantone.pdf

 

This Pantone chart has the ratios listed.

[Adrianc]

I had the same idea but de atramentis doesnt make a document yellow. What water resistant yellow can be substituted?

[Morbus Curiositas]

I had the same idea but de atramentis doesnt make a document yellow. What water resistant yellow can be substituted?

 

It does make a yellow document ink... I have bottle here...

It is not on the ebsite yet but will be soon

[Adrianc]

It does make a yellow document ink... I have bottle here...

It is not on the ebsite yet but will be soon

PERFECT!!!!! The holy grail of mixing inks--- a permanent yellow!!!! I will definitely be on the look out for it! Thanks!

[Morbus Curiositas]

PERFECT!!!!! The holy grail of mixing inks--- a permanent yellow!!!! I will definitely be on the look out for it! Thanks!

Will send you a sample :-)

[TeaHive]

If you want to learn more about mixing colors in general, especially if you want to make custom colors instead of using pre-existing mix ratios, I suggest doing some research on color theory. Especially mixing complementary colors.