Push/Pull | Nuke Mutant Fountain Pen Ink | 20ml Vial

Radioactive yellow, for the mutant in your life.

Nuke Mutant is about as loud as a yellow gets: a bright, glowing, radioactive shade that Push/Pull makes for the mutant in your life. It’s an accent ink. Underlining, headers, sketch highlights, the one word on the page that has to be found again later. Long passages in it are hard on the eyes, and we’d rather tell you that now.

Push/Pull is an artist co-operative in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood: an art supply shop, gallery, and small press that started in a basement studio in 2013. They mix their own watercolors, gouache, and fountain pen inks in the store, a batch at a time. That’s the appeal and the caveat in one: these are small-batch, hand-made inks, so the color can drift slightly from one batch to the next.

Push/Pull formulates it to dry fast, which is a real help for left-handed writers whose hand follows the line across the page, and it is not waterproof, so keep it away from wet hands and coffee rings.

20 ml vial. Works in fountain pens, dip pens, and with a brush. Hand-mixed in Seattle.

• Color Radioactive yellow, for the mutant in your life
• Fast drying formulated by the maker to dry quickly, which helps left-handed writers
• Not waterproof keep it away from wet hands
• Fountain pen, dip pen, or brush one vial covers writing, lettering, and illustration
• 20 ml vial roughly twenty converter fills
• Small-batch and hand-mixed made in Push/Pull’s shop in Ballard, Seattle; color can vary slightly between batches

How to fill a pen from the vial

1. Fit a converter to your pen and twist or press it all the way down to push the air out.
2. Dip the nib into the vial until the whole nib and a little of the section are under the ink. The vial is slim, so tilt it slightly as it gets low, or use a blunt-tip syringe to draw ink straight into the converter.
3. Draw the ink up slowly, then hold the pen nib-up and turn the converter back a touch to push out any air bubble.
4. Wipe the nib and section with a paper towel, cap the vial tightly, and write.

How to clean your pen

1. Flush whenever you change colors, and always before a pen goes in a drawer.
2. Empty the converter back into the vial or the sink, then draw up cool water and expel it until it runs clear.
3. Let the pen dry nib-down on a paper towel before refilling. Cool water only: no hot water, alcohol, or solvents.