This review first appeared on itsmaxloves.com on November 11th, 2017 and has been updated below with new information on April 2nd, 2019.
The Leuchtturm Medium Notebook is a tough but stylish A5-sized, fountain-pen-friendly notebook ideal for bullet journalling. In fact, they manufacture the Official Bullet Journal by Ryder Carroll as part of their line-up! Other specialty offerings include watercolour paper, photo albums, address books and stave-lined musical notation books.
Quick Stats
Brand: Leuchtturm1917
Model: Classic Hard Cover
Sizes:
- Mini A7
- Pocket A6
- Paperback B6+
- Medium A5
- Composition B5
- Master A4/A4++
Page styles:
- Dot grid
- Blank
- Ruled
- Squared grid
- Specialty
RRP: AUD $19.95 – $52.95
Origin: German designed, made in Taiwan
Features:
- Inner pocket in the back cover
- 2 x page marker ribbons
- Elastic closure
- 3 dedicated index/contents pages
- Numbered pages
- 8 perforated pages at rear
- Labelling stickers
Colours:
- Army
- Azure
- Berry
- Black
- Copper
- Emerald
- Fresh green
- Gold
- Grey
- Ice blue
- Lemon
- Lime
- Navy
- New pink
- Nordic blue
- Orange
- Pacific green
- Port red
- Purple
- Red
- Royal blue
- Sand
- Silver
- Taupe
- Tobacco
- Turquoise
- White
Pages: 249 pages, rounded corners
Cost per page: 14c per page
Cover type: Hard cover, vegan-friendly leatherette, very slight page overhang
Dimensions: A5 size (208mm x 145mm x 17mm)
Binding/lay flat: Thread-bound, lays flat
Environmental footprint: Unknown. As environmental friendliness is considered a marketing point these days, I think it’s safe to assume that when a company doesn’t make that information available, it’s because it’s not good news.
The Paper
- 249 pages of warm ivory 80gsm paper.
- 5mm dot grid in grey. 38 cells vertically, 26 cells horizontally.
- Average smoothness but comfortable to write on.
- Some ghosting, heavy pens do show through. (The page here has been imaged on a flatbed scanner, which exaggerates the amount of show-through).
- No ink feathering with fountain pens.
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