The core of my currently inked remains consistent for a third week. I believe I’ve stumbled onto to two axes of balance. One is a balanced color palette — and one that is afield from my normal color combinations. The other is the balance of pen sizes and cap styles. Let’s unpack that.

This week’s currently inked rolls onward with last week’s large pens. All six remain inked. Plus one: the Visconti Homo Sapiens Silver Age.

This week’s six-piece arrangement lives well within my comfort zone. The inks are all cool or unsaturated tones. And nibs share a healthy 1-3 split across regular EF and ground shapes. Ok: so I’m in more than one comfort zone.

A clean split this week: three returning pen and ink pairs with three new combinations. I leaned heavily on the “last inked” column of my pen database to select this week’s new trio of pens.