The Best Pens + Pencils for Planning – Clean Mama

August 11, 2021

Discovering the right pen or pencil for your planner can take a little bit of trial and error. As somebody that enjoys writing and the method of selecting out simply the precise pen and pencil, I believed it could be enjoyable to perform a little pen and pencil check and share the outcomes with you. When you’re like me and a little bit of a pen snob, you’ll love as we speak’s put up. I hope you discover a new writing utensil to pair along with your planner. It does make a distinction to have a pen or pencil that you just get pleasure from utilizing!

This week the Homekeeping Planner is formally accessible for pre-order – for those who haven’t grabbed yours but, head to this put up for all the main points and to get in on pre-order pricing. When you pre-order you’ll get a coupon for the autumn launch of merchandise – one of many new merchandise is 2-pack of the pictured authorized pad (a favourite workplace provide of mine – I exploit them on a regular basis and am excited to have a method not accessible wherever else coming to the store).

The standards I used for my pen check: I like writing in black ink and utilizing a finer tip. I examined a pair 0.7 pens however knew that I’d gravitate towards a finer tip – for those who desire a unique coloration ink and/or a thicker tip, you would possibly wish to conduct your personal pen check 🙂

I purchased two sampler packs from Jet Pens (I’ve talked about them earlier than, love the range and decisions!). Uni Jetstream Ballpoint Pen Sampler and the Tremendous Tip Gel Pen Sampler.  I saved the pens so as of thickness (from thinnest to thickest) and wrote the identical textual content: It is a pen check. It is a pen textual content (in cursive).

This helped me get a really feel for how the pen dragged or glided throughout the paper and the way it felt as I wrote in textual content or cursive. As I wrote the textual content, I additionally wrote the model identify of the pen and a fast notice about my preliminary ideas.

I narrowed down my three favorites on the left (the Pentel Energel 0.35, the Pilot Juice Up 0.4, and the Uni JetStream 0.5) after which examined them towards one another and got here up with my favourite: the Uni JetStream 0.5.

As soon as I made a decision on my favourite pen, I examined three of my favourite pencils and selected a favourite. I used comparable standards and narrowed down my three favorites to my absolute favourite – the Uni Alpha-Gel 0.5. I like how easy it’s and the way effectively it erases too.

As soon as I had my favorites I examined them within the new Homekeeping Planner – no bleeding by means of the paper, no smudges, and pleasing to put in writing with!

Right here you’ll be able to see my favourite pen and pencil. I like to make use of each in my planner. It was simpler to slender down the pens and pencils, I nonetheless have to determine on which Homekeeping Planner I’m going to make use of for the following yr – the Lace and the Cotton Blossom. Get your pre-order in for those who’re !

Do you could have a favourite pen or pencil? Inform me your favorites!