I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[txomsy]

It is easier to picture if you think of it as "outline" writing.

 

Just write anything in Word, select it, format as "outline" and imagine it is filled with a different or a watered down version of the outline color.

 

[Misfit]

This should show outlining. The writing with Kobe #77. Look at numbers and printing. It shows an outline around the letter or number. 
 

 

I can see some with this ink as well.

 

[inkstainedruth]

I can try, but it will have to be later.  

I don't know who coined the phrase, but basically it's when an ink line of the page will have a darker or slightly different color along the edges than the main part of the stroke.  The image that Penguin Collector posted gives you the idea -- but I'd never seen one that had sheen/shimmer to the edges before.

There's an entire thread about the effect: 

 

Hope this helps.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[USG]

8 hours ago, Misfit said:

This should show outlining. The writing with Kobe #77. Look at numbers and printing. It shows an outline around the letter or number. 
 

 

I can see some with this ink as well.

 

 

You most certainly have some "outlining" action there.... 👍😀

I wonder what those inks would look like on Cosmo Snow or Iroful paper?

[USG]

12 hours ago, txomsy said:

It is easier to picture if you think of it as "outline" writing.

 

Just write anything in Word, select it, format as "outline" and imagine it is filled with a different or a watered down version of the outline color.

 

 

Or the opposite, a darker color like on MzFit's examples or brighter sheen on the outline in either the color of the ink or an opposite color.

 

It's really hard to get good pics of the effect. Here are some random examples.

 

 

 

 

 

[USG]

58 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

I can try, but it will have to be later.  

I don't know who coined the phrase, but basically it's when an ink line of the page will have a darker or slightly different color along the edges than the main part of the stroke.  The image that Penguin Collector posted gives you the idea -- but I'd never seen one that had sheen/shimmer to the edges before.

There's an entire thread about the effect: 

 

Hope this helps.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ISR, Thanks for the link, but I think I've seen it before.  There's another effect and that's a kind of "glowing" that goes on, that's more representative of the word "Halo", which is why I use the word "outline" for the other effect.  As you can see, some can be both.

 

This would be an example of the "glowing" effect.

From a distance, the words pick up the semblance of a blurry glow.

 

If you get a chance, I'm interested in seeing your examples.

[SLinkster]

15 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

usually the haloing is just a darker shade of the ink itself, IME

 

I have a fresh bottle of Birmingham Chrysan Themum that doesn't resemble any of the online swatches I've examined, including the swatch on the shop product page. On my swatch card I see a desaturated mauve-leaning-sepia with a faint green halo. I cannot capture it in a photograph or scan . Here's an accidental chroma - one drop on a dry paper towel. The ink is apparently a mix of pink (red) and green - which makes brown and explains my swatch. 

[USG]

20 minutes ago, SLinkster said:

 

I have a fresh bottle of Birmingham Chrysan Themum that doesn't resemble any of the online swatches I've examined, including the swatch on the shop product page. On my swatch card I see a desaturated mauve-leaning-sepia with a faint green halo. I cannot capture it in a photograph or scan . Here's an accidental chroma - one drop on a dry paper towel. The ink is apparently a mix of pink (red) and green - which makes brown and explains my swatch. 

 

That's curious.  I checked online too... there's a thread about it here..... LINK

[Misfit]

Here are lots of outlining inks. 
 

 

[USG]

3 hours ago, Misfit said:

Here are lots of outlining inks. 
 

 

 

I just took a look at that Halo thread again and wouldn't you say that the Halo effect is NOT the same as the examples of the "Outline" effect I posted?

[inkstainedruth]

Maybe.  But I'm not the one who coined the phrase "haloing" -- I was just repeating what other people called the phenomenon, and it wasn't until THIS thread that I saw anything that looked like your description of the term.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[USG]

3 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Maybe.  But I'm not the one who coined the phrase "haloing" -- I was just repeating what other people called the phenomenon, and it wasn't until THIS thread that I saw anything that looked like your description of the term.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I didn't mean you personally ISR, I was just commenting that the effect specified in the older thread didn't look like the effect under discussion now.  I'm fine with what ever either effect is called. 🙂👍

[Penguincollector]

   I ordered a couple of notebooks from the Paper Penguin (have to support my people); a #9 machine TR 68 notebook, and a TR Sanzen 68.  I want to compare them with a third notebook of unspecified TR 68 paper.

[lascosas]

I just ordered 320 sheets of A5 Cosmo Air 6 hole punched sheets from Paper Penguin.  $42 including tax and shipping.  Thank you Penguin Collector!

[Penguincollector]

7 hours ago, lascosas said:

I just ordered 320 sheets of A5 Cosmo Air 6 hole punched sheets from Paper Penguin.  $42 including tax and shipping.  Thank you Penguin Collector!

  Happy that worked out for you! There’s no affiliation, just like to support small businesses that like penguins.

[Gloucesterman]

Ordered some notebooks and pencils (is that a bad word? LOL) from pencils.com yesterday.

The prices were good at 40% off so I jumped on them.

Keeping my expectations positive that the notebooks are FP friendly.

Will keep this site informed when they arrive and are tested.

[A Smug Dill]

[SLinkster]

Picked up ten A5 Rhodia staple-bound lined notebooks for $3 each at a local place. These are for sure stocking stuffers, as I dislike wide-ruled paper, but the price was reasonable. I also found an adorable vinyl sticker for the back window of my SUV.

 

Sadly the shop was out of the thing that prompted me to go - three 3-packs of some other brand A5 96-page notebooks for $12. Couldn't find them, clerk couldn't find them even with help from the owner via a phone call. By the time I got home the store site had been updated to reflect "out of stock" - typo, inventory glitch, or gone home with the owner, I guess.

 

I'll note that a quick Google search indicates Joann is selling the Rhodia notebooks for $3, but you'll have to pay shipping unless you hit their minimum to qualify for free shipping. 

[inkstainedruth]

Joann Fabrics?   

Geez.  I worked for a local location years ago (long since closed), and my husband could NOT figure out what we carried half the junk we did -- and was going "It's a FABRIC STORE, right?"  And I'd be going, "Yeah, you'd think....."   

I miss the fabric store I'd go to when we lived in MA, that was in a warehouse where they'd started off in one corner and ended up taking over the entire building.  Not super cheap, but the quality was WAY better, and if they put something on sale it was a REAL sale -- not like Jo-Ann's jacking up the price so they could drop it 30% off every "sale" (basically, it was a sale on paper -- because the the "sale" price was pretty much the same every two weeks when the new flyer came out...).  

Of course I also miss the twice a year sales at Roaring River Mills (even if that meant a 2+ hour each way to Altoona and back... because pretty much everything was half off -- and some stuff in the basement they'd sell by the POUND).  But they're gone too -- apparently some sort of family feud when the original owner died.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

A cream A6 Sakae TR 68 notebook somehow hopped in my Amazon cart today. My Clairefontaine A6 is almost full.