Link Love: Lamy’s Inky Drama

This past week was full of news about Lamy. We already posted about the sale of Lamy to Mitsubishi but Friday every phone at the Baltimore Pen Show lit up like the ink equivalvent of an Amber Alert when the NYTimes article about Lamy’s re-release of Dark Lilac was published. There were many comments about how it must have clearly been a slow news day if the NYTimes was writing about fountain pen ink inconsistencies. Fountain Pen Memes got to talk with an executive at Lamy about all the Dark Lilac hullaballoo and cleared up some of the questions many of us had on the topic.

Pens:

• Unique Dip Pens (via JetPens Blog)
• Ballpens candidates updated (via José Naranja)
• Ensso XS Minimalist Fountain Pen Review (via The Poor Penman)

Ink:

• Ink flow challenges (The Ink Must Flow) (via Chronicles of a Fountain Pen)
• Lennon Tool Bar Pit Sian (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Ink Review #2510: Octopus Fluids Unicorn (via Mountain of Ink)
• Troublemaker Ink Mango Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Ink Review #801: PenChalet x Van Dieman Mercury (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Mont Blanc: Royal Blue (via Stationery)

Pencils:

• Pencil Review: Tombow Mono Graph “Shaker” Mechanical Pencil (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Seyes Ruled Paper for Cursive Writing (via Wonder Pens Blog)
• Thin softbound notebooks are low-stakes experimentation platforms (via mnmlscholar)
• My Current Notebook Lineup (via Dime Novel Raven)
• Leuchtturm1917 A5 dot grid comparison: standard, 120 gsm, Bullet Journal (via Writing at Large)
• The best vertical weekly planners (my top 5) (via All About Planners)

Art & Creativity:

• On My Table: Beginning of March 2024. (via Apple-Pine)
• What do outlines do? And when do we not need to use them? (via Drewscape)
• Wander into This Miraculous Miniature Library with Thousands of Books Made Entirely by Hand (via Colossal)
• At More Than 800 Pages, ‘The Book of Colour Concepts’ Revels in Four Centuries of Chromatic Wonders (via Colossal)
• Daniel Smith has started selling gouache (via Parka Blogs)
• Elizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire it (via It’s Nice That)
• Get Ready to Bang Out a Sweater 2024! (via Modern Daily Knitting)

Other Interesting Things:

• Icon Iris Apfel Dies at 102, Leaving a Colorful Legacy (via My Modern Met)
• How the Dutch Solved Street Design (via Kottke.org)
• How Jane Austen Changed Fiction Forever (via Kottke.org)
• NOTEBOOK PEOPLE: An Interview with Soraya Ahyaudin // Trina O’Gorman (via Baum-kuchen)
• Road Trip to the California Pen Show 2024 (via TRAVELER’S COMPANY USA)
• Our Favorite Japanese Bags in 2024 (via Carryology)
• Even More Indie Makers (via Rachel’s Reflections)
• #17InkQuestions from The Gentleman Stationer (via The Gentleman Stationer)

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