Selecta Leader Paper Review

[inkish]

When going through some old things, I found an unused pad of Selecta paper, in a Rhodia-orange cover, paper quite bright white, with purple-grey quad ruling. I have no recollection of this brand, but the paper felt fairly smooth, with just a bit of tooth, and the page has a nice snappy feel, which is unusual in my high-humidity environment. Overall, I found the paper had to be paired with the right ink, but then it was quite nice. Most of the inks I tried bled — all but the kon-peki and Platinum carbon. For more details, read the hand-written review below. There was minimal feathering, but many inks spread.

 

 

Detail:

 

More detail:

 

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The backing is not all that stiff, but still useful.

 

Nice cover, matte card, thick enough to protect paper.

 

I also wrote a couple of letters:

 

with Iroshizuku kon-peki

 

With Levenger cobalt:

 

Bleed-through of cobalt:

 

 

Bleed of review page:

Edited April 13, 2016 by inkish

[sannidh]

Thank you for the nice short review, inkish.

Hope you are safe from today's earthquake...

[fountainpagan]

Thank you for the review, inkish.

 

An earthquake? I hope all is fine.

[inkish]

Thank you for your concern. The earthquake was startling, and as it went on for quite a long time, I was afraid that it would be terrible, like the 2004 quake off Sumatra. That one we felt here as well. But it turns out it was deep enough, and far away from population centres that there are surprisingly few casualties. In fact, most of the casualties reported so far are from people stampeding in fright.