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.
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!
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