Design & Stationery
Design & Stationery brand guidelines — colour palettes, typography and design systems for design brands, with honest notes on ownership and where each is made.
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Pentel Brand Guidelines: The Sign Pen, EnerGel & Mechanical Pencils
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Pentel Brand Guidelines The Sign Pen, EnerGel and the modern mechanical pencil — from a 1946 Tokyo…
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Zebra Pen Brand Guidelines: Mildliner, Sarasa & the Steel F-701
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Zebra Brand Guidelines A century-old Tokyo pen house — from steel nibs to the Mildliner and the…
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Mitsubishi Pencil (uni) Brand Guidelines: uni-ball, Jetstream, Kuru Toga & POSCA
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Mitsubishi Pencil (uni) Brand Guidelines The uni pencil, uni-ball, Jetstream, Kuru Toga and POSCA — and a…
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Sakura Brand Guidelines: The Gelly Roll, Pigma Micron & Cray-Pas
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Sakura Brand Guidelines The Osaka colour house that gave the world the oil pastel and the gel…
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Tombow Brand Guidelines: The MONO Eraser, Dual Brush Pens & the Dragonfly
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Tombow Brand Guidelines A century-old Tokyo pencil house — the striped MONO eraser, and the lettering world’s…
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Colorverse Brand Guidelines: Korean Space-Themed Ink & the Twin-Bottle Set
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Colorverse Brand Guidelines Ink as cosmology — Korean colour named for physics, in a signature twin-bottle set.…
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KWZ Ink Brand Guidelines: A Chemist’s Handmade Iron-Gall Inks from Poland
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide KWZ Ink Brand Guidelines A chemist’s handmade inks — small-batch Polish colour, and a rare modern iron-gall…
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Ferris Wheel Press Brand Guidelines: Ornate Ink Bottles & Whimsical Colour
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Ferris Wheel Press Brand Guidelines Whimsy as the product — ornate ink bottles, poetic colour names, and…
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Robert Oster Signature Brand Guidelines: Australian Ink, Fire & Ice & Sheen
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Robert Oster Signature Brand Guidelines South Australian ink, colour-first — and one cult teal that throws a…
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J. Herbin Brand Guidelines: The World’s Oldest Ink Name, 1670 & Sealing Wax
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide J. Herbin Brand Guidelines “The pearl of inks” — a French house that claims the oldest name…
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Noodler’s Ink Brand Guidelines: Bulletproof Inks, the Catfish & American Value
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Noodler’s Ink Brand Guidelines A one-person American ink house — bulletproof inks, big cheap bottles, and unmistakable…
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Diamine Brand Guidelines: British Ink Since 1864, Inkvent & a Vast Colour Range
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Diamine Brand Guidelines One of Britain’s last surviving ink houses — and one of the broadest colour…