TL;DR: A simple experiment to test the lightfastness of fountain-pen inks. This is important for anyone drawing or writing things they’d like to showcase, possibly in a frame, yet still read after many months and years. I put many inks on paper in duplicate, put a copy in a drawer, and taped another on the window. I take snapshots about every weekend and check to see which ink has faded beyond recognition — I know those are not lightfast and when they become less than legible. This mini-report summarizes the first three months of operation.
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TL;DR: A day of trying out pens, inks, and paper. This is the wonderful Tomoe River 52 gsm that comes in the Galen Leather Everyday Blank, B5-size notebook as 400 densely packed pages. I tried it with various fountain and dip pens, and liked its feedback. Figures 1 through 10 capture some of the joy.
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