Black on white.

For Christmas I was given a bottle of Sheaffer Scrip black ink for my Lamy fountain pen. I hadn’t given it a try until last week, but now that I have I might not go back to my old stuff!

This black ink is very nice and flows out just the right amount to not bleed on regular everyday paper. I’m not worried about it coming through on the other side either. It’s also thin enough to give texture to your lettering from top to bottom.

Here’s an example of what I mean: you get the beautifully textured, bottom heavy lettering from this ink without bleed. And this is only engineering scratch pad. I found that both my Lamy green and Faber-Castell blue inks came out too heavily to be used just anywhere. I bet you the nib and pen have affect the final product too, but so far this is the combination for this pen.

(You can view a few more examples in my flickr group here)

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This is an interesting little article I found that has more weight with the recent introduction of the iPad. Not so much for what the iPad is, but for what it was expected to be, and what I hope can or will come of it in the future.

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There is certainly something to be said about taking a pen (especially a fountain pen), and a piece of paper and writing a real letter to someone far away. It takes real effort to stop what you’re doing and focus directly on getting your ideas through your hands with a pen that kind of gets lost when you’re typing on a computer. I don’t mean “I’m too lazy to write anything with a pen and paper”, but taking the time to not be distracted by other things on your computer.  There are no tweets on your pad of paper, not “dings” or IM notices.  Just you and the paper, and I think that there is a real quality to sitting down and writing a letter all in one go. It reads more naturally, more “flowy” then a disconnected email that has spent time in your drafts folder. I’d like to make it a challenge to all of you reading this to sit down and write a letter to someone whom even through the wicked advancements of facebook you don’t keep a real human connection with anymore. I can almost guarantee that you’ll feel great about it afterwards! And if you don’t feel great, jut go back to facebook ‘cause you’re probably having FB withdrawl. You’re all dead to me anyways FTW! Who am I kidding, you guys won’t try it anyways.

There is certainly something to be said about taking a pen (especially a fountain pen), and a piece of paper and writing a real letter to someone far away. It takes real effort to stop what you’re doing and focus directly on getting your ideas through your hands with a pen that kind of gets lost when you’re typing on a computer. I don’t mean “I’m too lazy to write anything with a pen and paper”, but taking the time to not be distracted by other things on your computer.  There are no tweets on your pad of paper, not “dings” or IM notices.  Just you and the paper, and I think that there is a real quality to sitting down and writing a letter all in one go. It reads more naturally, more “flowy” then a disconnected email that has spent time in your drafts folder.

I’d like to make it a challenge to all of you reading this to sit down and write a letter to someone whom even through the wicked advancements of facebook you don’t keep a real human connection with anymore. I can almost guarantee that you’ll feel great about it afterwards!

And if you don’t feel great, jut go back to facebook ‘cause you’re probably having FB withdrawl. You’re all dead to me anyways FTW!

Who am I kidding, you guys won’t try it anyways.

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