I love watching ink swatches, thank you ! The square block is actually nice for that purpose… not everything has to be in circles all the time. 😊 I don’t use the card system myself, I have a collections binder in personal size with 3 sections: pen collection sorted by brand, pen collection sorted by current ink color and ink swatches sorted by color. But since it’s also a ring system, it gives me the same flexibility… 😊 BTW, Pilot offers the Iroshizuku inks in 15ml bottles as well… don‘t know if you can get them in the US, but here in Europe you can buy them at Stilo&Stile. I always go for the 50ml bottles though… the smaller ones are almost half the price of the big ones and contain less than a third of the ink… Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis not so good… 😂 Plus they are my favorite inks, so I use them a lot.
I like the tag idea. Easier to move stuff around. I recently bought a set of swatch cards by Wearingeul that have the Cheshire Cat’s face as a resist so when you ink the card you reveal his grin. Maybe I’ll punch those and put them on a ring. I definitely would write all the ink names in black, but I’d also write some short phrase in the ink itself on each one. The inks can look so different in a big swatch than they do in writing. I am so interested to hear what you think of the Sailor pens. That sale has me extra wanting one - I played with one at the Yoseka Stationery Fest and loved it.
