My rotation of favorite pens and inks continues into this week, with one change. The goal this week is to have many options for detailed accent notes. Accenting involves notetaking my personal interpretations of an author’s point or a lecturer’s argument.

I cleaned quite a few pens this week. The rotation of currently inked looks quite different from last week’s little family. And good thing. This week’s work is far more variable than usual.

Choosing a slate of pens and inks that fit the kinds of work I’m taking on this week proved a puzzle. My work writing is primarily quick notes (jottings) and lesson plans. My personal writing is primarily slow writing: commonplace reading notes and journaling. This week’s currently inked pens need to accommodate both extremes.

The weather turns humid and rainy this week. Such a turn calls for a warmer color palette.

Six inks live in pens this week. Agate, Lamy’s warm-toned grey ink, remains my primary writing ink. Two blues, one showy with sheen and another subdued cobalt. One dark green and one subdued green mirror my pairing of blues. And then there’s Vaikhari, which lives as a warm brown ink with delusions of being a green ink.