Hey y’all!

I saw this morning A LOT of people are having no brush pen issues with their Hobonichi Cousin so I immediately grabbed all my 2025 planners and did pen tests.

In this video, I compare an assortment of pens in a variety of 2025 Hobonichi planners and the Common Planners since those use very similar paper.

0:00 Introduction
01:43 Brush Pens
07:35 2024 HoCo
13:07 2025 HoCo
20:55 2025 Hobo A6
28:43 2025 Weeks Mega
30:40 2025 A6 Five Year
37:41 Common Planners
41:00 Final Thoughts

To conclude, from what I understand this is an issue with certain batches of planners. I think my A6 Five Year is one of those and from what I can see applying less pressure or trying a different brush pen, like the Pentel Sign Brush, are going to be a few ways to lessen the bleed through. I honestly wish I had gotten a bad batch I could tell for certain so I could provide some better options.

I first saw the bleed through issues posted by:

https://www.instagram.com/jenboomcrea...

https://www.instagram.com/julies_plan...

Go follow them if you don’t already! I love their content and they have amazing Hobonichi spreads!