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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Heinz has recently incorporated an integrated piston filler mechanism dubbed the Kolbenfooler as an option on their pens, a rare feature for small independent makers. They've also introduced multicolored nibs on select pen models. Heinz offer a wide variety of pen sizes to fit your personal preferences from their Tash and Stiff pocket pens to their giant Koenig and sizes in between. You'll be able to find a comfortable pen to fit your hand. Artisans Jim Heinz and Rachel Neocraft each writing instrument with care in small batches using traditional methods, while Francisco Lopez provides top-tier customer service and sales support, as well as driving product design and development. You can find Jim Heinz and Francisco Lopez, the Heinz guys, at most major pen shows around the country. They've been at a bunch recently, but still coming up at the Chicago Planners Conference and the Atlas Stationers Holiday Sale. But of course, you can always shop online at HeinzPens.com. So go give Heinz Pens a look today. We have a special offer available for listeners of this show. You can get 15% of your next purchase using the code PENADDICT or by visiting Heinz.com slash PENADDICT. That's H-I-N-Z-E-P-E-N-S dot com slash PENADDICT. This is good for one use and expires on November 30th, 2024. Our thanks to Heinz Pens for their support of this show and Relay.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Heinz has recently incorporated an integrated piston filler mechanism dubbed the Kolbenfooler as an option on their pens, a rare feature for small independent makers. They've also introduced multicolored nibs on select pen models. Heinz offer a wide variety of pen sizes to fit your personal preferences from their Tash and Stiff pocket pens to their giant Koenig and sizes in between. You'll be able to find a comfortable pen to fit your hand. Artisans Jim Heinz and Rachel Neocraft each writing instrument with care in small batches using traditional methods, while Francisco Lopez provides top-tier customer service and sales support, as well as driving product design and development. You can find Jim Heinz and Francisco Lopez, the Heinz guys, at most major pen shows around the country. They've been at a bunch recently, but still coming up at the Chicago Planners Conference and the Atlas Stationers Holiday Sale. But of course, you can always shop online at HeinzPens.com. So go give Heinz Pens a look today. We have a special offer available for listeners of this show. You can get 15% of your next purchase using the code PENADDICT or by visiting Heinz.com slash PENADDICT. That's H-I-N-Z-E-P-E-N-S dot com slash PENADDICT. This is good for one use and expires on November 30th, 2024. Our thanks to Heinz Pens for their support of this show and Relay.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* You know, I'm not, I wasn't asked to like recommend a pen as part of this ad read, but I'm scrolling through the Heinz site as we're talking about this and I stopped cold on this one. And it's the Jekyll and Hyde show after dark. So it's kind of made for the pen show after dark, you know, concept that we have at a lot of fountain pen shows, like on a Friday or Saturday night, everyone just get together in the bar, share their pens and products. And this was made after a drink and in relation to that. And I just love the colors of this, you know, I like my bright colors. Yeah, a good looking pen. Also with a mixture of the acrylics, like the different acrylics going on and their opacity. So that's what, so what's stopped, what's kind of been a thing for me, which I just kind of fell into as you learn what you like about like custom makers and custom acrylics. I like to have part translucency in some of the materials, right? Solid acrylics and some translucent acrylics. And this is a mixture of that, right? So I like seeing like some transparency, but maybe not full transparency and have this mixed in there. So this is a really cool one I enjoyed and I'm just staring it down right now. It's really nice. There is an entire collection of pens called Pen Show After Dark that are themed on beverages, we'll say. Nice, nice. Love it. Love it. And they were also just in Toronto at the Toronto Pen Show. So we'll have to follow up with them and see how that goes. It looks just as crazy as when we went, what, like 2018? It looks intense. Like I saw some pictures, I think from Wonder Pens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, I mean, it was intense and that was five or six years ago that we went and it was intense and it still is. That was maybe the most stressful pen show, like in a good way. Just like, oh, this is like, there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people here. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think maybe beaten by that one that you were just at, the... San Francisco. Yoseka? No, the Yoseka. And the Stationery Fest. Stationery Fest, yeah, probably. Yeah, same category, for sure, for sure. All right.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* You know, I'm not, I wasn't asked to like recommend a pen as part of this ad read, but I'm scrolling through the Heinz site as we're talking about this and I stopped cold on this one. And it's the Jekyll and Hyde show after dark. So it's kind of made for the pen show after dark, you know, concept that we have at a lot of fountain pen shows, like on a Friday or Saturday night, everyone just get together in the bar, share their pens and products. And this was made after a drink and in relation to that. And I just love the colors of this, you know, I like my bright colors. Yeah, a good looking pen. Also with a mixture of the acrylics, like the different acrylics going on and their opacity. So that's what, so what's stopped, what's kind of been a thing for me, which I just kind of fell into as you learn what you like about like custom makers and custom acrylics. I like to have part translucency in some of the materials, right? Solid acrylics and some translucent acrylics. And this is a mixture of that, right? So I like seeing like some transparency, but maybe not full transparency and have this mixed in there. So this is a really cool one I enjoyed and I'm just staring it down right now. It's really nice. There is an entire collection of pens called Pen Show After Dark that are themed on beverages, we'll say. Nice, nice. Love it. Love it. And they were also just in Toronto at the Toronto Pen Show. So we'll have to follow up with them and see how that goes. It looks just as crazy as when we went, what, like 2018? It looks intense. Like I saw some pictures, I think from Wonder Pens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, I mean, it was intense and that was five or six years ago that we went and it was intense and it still is. That was maybe the most stressful pen show, like in a good way. Just like, oh, this is like, there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people here. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think maybe beaten by that one that you were just at, the... San Francisco. Yoseka? No, the Yoseka. And the Stationery Fest. Stationery Fest, yeah, probably. Yeah, same category, for sure, for sure. All right.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Look, it's what I'll say. If Stabilo did this with Paul Smith, I would have bought them already. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, like, Caran d'Ache does a bunch of Paul Smith. They pretty much have the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stationary </del>Paul Smith catalog. And, like, Dolce & Gabbana is trying to, like, take some of their classic patterns and colors and put them into, like, a highlighter. But it's just such a weird one because... It's so weird. It's so weird. The Stabilo, this particular highlighter is, like, the base OG highlighter, right? It's not, like, some super unique wild highlighter. It's actually a good platform for color because of the way that these highlighters are shaped. Like, this shape has been around for decades. Like, this highlighter is very well known. It's probably one of the most popular. And then just... But just the idea of this collaboration is... You can't think about it too hard. It's hilarious. Because it makes no sense. It's so good. Yeah, it's hilarious. It's so weird. It's such a weird... Because... I just don't know... I don't know how this comes together. Like, of all of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stationary </del>brands and products to collaborate with, why did they choose Stabilo Highlighters as that? Yeah. That is... It's very odd. Yeah.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Look, it's what I'll say. If Stabilo did this with Paul Smith, I would have bought them already. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, like, Caran d'Ache does a bunch of Paul Smith. They pretty much have the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stationery </ins>Paul Smith catalog. And, like, Dolce & Gabbana is trying to, like, take some of their classic patterns and colors and put them into, like, a highlighter. But it's just such a weird one because... It's so weird. It's so weird. The Stabilo, this particular highlighter is, like, the base OG highlighter, right? It's not, like, some super unique wild highlighter. It's actually a good platform for color because of the way that these highlighters are shaped. Like, this shape has been around for decades. Like, this highlighter is very well known. It's probably one of the most popular. And then just... But just the idea of this collaboration is... You can't think about it too hard. It's hilarious. Because it makes no sense. It's so good. Yeah, it's hilarious. It's so weird. It's such a weird... Because... I just don't know... I don't know how this comes together. Like, of all of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stationery </ins>brands and products to collaborate with, why did they choose Stabilo Highlighters as that? Yeah. That is... It's very odd. Yeah.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* From Relay, this is The Pen Addict, episode 638. It's a spooky episode. No, it isn't. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace and Heinz Pens. My name is Myke Hurley, and it's not spooky around here because it's still Ticonder October. We're saying goodbye, and there's no better person to do that with than Brad Dowdy. Hi, Brad. I can't believe I've made it through like an entire month of focusing on pencils. It's been a great time. I've had it. It's been fun. Genuinely, this has been my favourite month of the show this year. It's been fun. It's been fresh. It's been new. You know, I've really enjoyed Ticonder October. Yeah, it's been fun to do something different, even though, like, you know, I'm deep into pencils. Like, when we have all of these opportunities in front of us with stationery, where you can just go down all these little different rabbit holes, sometimes you forget one of your favourite little rabbit holes. So I wanted to take some time, refocus on the graphite things in life, and I think it's been really fun to me to sit here at my desk and pick out, like, a new pencil every day and kind of explore what I like and what I don't like. And, yeah, we'll be talking about that a lot throughout the show today. First up, a little follow-up, continuing the colorblindness talk. I think this is very good to get some feedback on this from people who are more affected than you or I with this. And I got a link in Slack from Ben, and this leans more towards the digital side, but I thought it was a good reference as, you know, people talk about colorblindness and different ink colors and how all of that works. So Ben says, since colorblind-friendly color combos have come up in the last two podcasts, I figured I'd share one of my favourite write-ups on the subject. It's more geared to on-screen and in-print graphics, but I feel some of the general principles can be applied everywhere. I'm not colorblind myself, but my co-workers seem to appreciate when I use these color schemes. So I wanted to throw this link in there because I thought that was cool of Ben to share that with us. And, yeah, I appreciate that, and I appreciate all the feedback on this discussion. And how interesting it is to, hey, let's find a particular shade of red or a particular shade of green that might work better for a certain person. And that's why we love this type of show, where we can, like, really get specific about one person, one person's issue. But then it turns out that, hey, maybe a lot of other people are interested in this content, too. So it's pretty neat. So we definitely appreciated all the talk and all the feedback around picking some proper colours for some colour blindness challenges. So that's really cool. Cool.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* From Relay, this is The Pen Addict, episode 638. It's a spooky episode. No, it isn't. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace and Heinz Pens. My name is Myke Hurley, and it's not spooky around here because it's still Ticonder October. We're saying goodbye, and there's no better person to do that with than Brad Dowdy. Hi, Brad. I can't believe I've made it through like an entire month of focusing on pencils. It's been a great time. I've had it. It's been fun. Genuinely, this has been my favourite month of the show this year. It's been fun. It's been fresh. It's been new. You know, I've really enjoyed Ticonder October. Yeah, it's been fun to do something different, even though, like, you know, I'm deep into pencils. Like, when we have all of these opportunities in front of us with stationery, where you can just go down all these little different rabbit holes, sometimes you forget one of your favourite little rabbit holes. So I wanted to take some time, refocus on the graphite things in life, and I think it's been really fun to me to sit here at my desk and pick out, like, a new pencil every day and kind of explore what I like and what I don't like. And, yeah, we'll be talking about that a lot throughout the show today. First up, a little follow-up, continuing the colorblindness talk. I think this is very good to get some feedback on this from people who are more affected than you or I with this. And I got a link in Slack from Ben, and this leans more towards the digital side, but I thought it was a good reference as, you know, people talk about colorblindness and different ink colors and how all of that works. So Ben says, since colorblind-friendly color combos have come up in the last two podcasts, I figured I'd share one of my favourite write-ups on the subject. It's more geared to on-screen and in-print graphics, but I feel some of the general principles can be applied everywhere. I'm not colorblind myself, but my co-workers seem to appreciate when I use these color schemes. So I wanted to throw this link in there because I thought that was cool of Ben to share that with us. And, yeah, I appreciate that, and I appreciate all the feedback on this discussion. And how interesting it is to, hey, let's find a particular shade of red or a particular shade of green that might work better for a certain person. And that's why we love this type of show, where we can, like, really get specific about one person, one person's issue. But then it turns out that, hey, maybe a lot of other people are interested in this content, too. So it's pretty neat. So we definitely appreciated all the talk and all the feedback around picking some proper colours for some colour blindness challenges. So that's really cool. Cool.</div></td></tr>
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