Sheen with purpose and ink mullets
This weekly palette’s sheening inks make for easy scanning while working the room during lectures. Thank you, Sabimidori and Aurora Borealis. Copper Noir lends a complimentary orange for highlighting key points and noting housekeeping items to review with my students. Inks with purpose.
Additionally, I chose pens with fun colors and textures. The Kaweco lends a pop of orange that compliments the Loft Pens’ teal, the Sailor’s cobalt and the Montblanc’s navy.
The Jinhao’s wood body and cap add earthiness to my otherwise plastic-heavy pen kit. The mid-toned brown finish of the Jinhao’s walnut also pairs pleasingly with all five other writers.
Comp. Li. Mentary.
All with an evenly spread color palette. Two inks in the grey, blue and earth tone color families.
Grey/Black
Montblanc 146 Le Petit Prince & Fox (EF). Bungukan Kobayashi Sohayanotsuruki. Both Sohayanotsuruki and the 146 return to my penvelope this week. A quick-drying green-grey ink works well for quickly-jotted notes, such as keeping up my weekly. The 146’s EF nib ensures I have legible, narrow notes. Also: reading notes, scratch notes, and meeting notes.
Visconti Homo Sapiens Silver Age (F CI, by Nibsmith). Troublemaker Petrichor. Generous F lines with crisp, readily noticable line variation. My go-to combo for drawing out reference tables, indexes and for keeping up a running log of students’ essay submissions. Petrichor balances chromatic undertones against a medium-grey body. Business on top, party underneath. An ink mullet. Also: journaling and lesson plans.
Blue/Teal
Loft Highworth in Ocean Teal (EF, mnml). Taccia Ukiyo-e Sabimidori. I anticipate delivering two separate lectures, each three times, this week. Sabimidori’s sheen will keep my lecture notes readable at the odd angles I tend to stand in relation to my notebook. Up and away. The Highworth’s disciplined EF lines also accommodate detailed notetaking while reading and while planning lessons. Also, some journaling is likely.
Sailor Pro Gear Slate Blue (Z Architect, by Custom Nib Studio). Diamine Aurora Borealis. A second pairing that will primarily serve to copy down lecture notes. Aurora Borealis’ penchant for red sheen combines with the Z Architect grind to ensure my headings are easily discernible — even from a moderate distance away from my lectern. Plus, the wide lines make for fun journaling and reading notes. And lesson plans. In for a workout, this pair is.
Earth Tones
Kaweco Skyline Sport Fox (EF). Monteverde Copper Noir. A combination pocket carry, meeting note accenting, scratch note making and late-paper marking writer. A moderately-dry EF nib ensures Copper Noir shades noticeably. Matchy-matchy.
Jinhao 9035 Walnut (M SIG, by Franklin-Christoph). Diamine Salamander. The Jinhao is a true frankenpen this week. A Frnaklin-Christoph nib, wet Conklin feed, and Jinhao body. Makes for a surprisingly wet combination that renders Salamander a murky green-black. The M line width is suited for sub-headings in reading notes, lesson plans, and reading notes. The wood grain may also keep meetings from derailing.
Wild Cards
Nap time for wild card ink colors.
