Hello, everyone, I really hope you’re doing well so today, I’m doing a review of the dingbats pro collection, all right, let’s check it out, so this is a notebook that Dingbats came out with more recently. It’s your latest edition. As I said, it’s called the pro collection. The size is a b5, it’s a hardcover notebook, as you can see, it is cloth covered, it’s a vegan textile cover and the cover is made sustainably from renewable sources. So Dingbats is a company that really tries to apply sustainable practices when they make their notebooks.
So that’s a big plus, in my opinion, as I said, B5 means it is 6.8 inches by 9.8 inches or 17cm x 25cm, and it has a cactus, the boss on the front here, the golden gold accent here and then it’s also as a second one That has a little bit debossed on the front and then let’s check out the back. It says Dingbats right here and here is the spine, and the cover is a little bit of a rough texture to it. I said it feels like a linen cover and then here it has rounded edges and then there’s about I’d, say about a millimeter a moment and a half of overhang with the cover to the paper.
And it has, as you can see, an elastic strap and it feels like a nice quality, strap and I’d say. The color of this notebook is a blue black or a really dark navy, because it feels like, as you can see, the strap has like like a true black, and then this is slightly a bluish tint to it. I don’t know if the camera picks this up and it has also a pen loop. I’m going to show you real, quick. How well that works.
Give me a second right here. There you go, so it works really. Well, I also tried a pencil and the pencil did not fall out, so you can use any type of pen with this pen loop as long as that too tiny or too large, and then has a nice little two-tone, two bookmarks one gold and one in black – That matches the notebook nicely and then let’s take the pen out again. The paper is 160 gsm. So it’s nice and thick paper.
You can see it has fizzled stiff since it is thick and, as I said, the color is white and it this one’s a 5mm dot grid and it’s also available in plain or blank. So those are the two options that you have and it has you see 128 pages and it has a la flat design. So it does lie super flat. Wherever you open it up just break into it a little bit as you can see, and then it lies perfectly flat, which is really nice. If you want to draw and sketch on this, which you can do since it is thicker paper, it handles acrylics, watercolor, all kinds of stuff, so you can really get creative with this notebook.
Once you open it up here is the cover page, it’s really nice black and gold Cacti images right there and they can put your information right here and it has one another blank page here and then it goes into dot grid pages and the notebook is stitched and bound and yeah the same in the back right here and it has a Pocket in the back there, so you can see – and that has some information on the company right there, and there was also somewhere in here – a quality control tag in case anything’s wrong with it.
They can help you out but this notebook that I received seems to be in perfect condition all right. Let’s check out my writing sample real quick before we wrap it up. So we have your pencils, ballpoint pen, hybrid pen, couple gel pens and rollerballs, and then we have two fountain pens diamond marine medium nib with sorry diamond ring ink with medium nib with the pilot metropolitan, and then we have the hero: 330, the food and nib With diamond merlot ink, which is, as you can see, much thicker nib and then let’s check out the back, and here we have hardly any ghosting and there’s absolutely no bleed-through even with the broader nib, there’s nothing. So it’s really fountain pen friendly paper and it doesn’t feel as coated as their other papers in the earth collection.
So this one has more of a matte finish and does not feel quite as smooth as the earth collection. I’m also going to do a comparison between the two in another video. That’s coming soon, so stay tuned for that one. So, overall, I think this is an excellent quality notebook, especially if you like to do mixed media art like you, want to use some watercolor in it or just prefer a really thick paper. It’S definitely a notebook for you also.
If you want something slightly bigger than an a5, it’s worth checking it out yeah as I’m really impressed with the quality and yeah. Those are my two cents on the dingbats pro collection. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave me a comment. If you’ve enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you want to see more notebook videos, please subscribe to my channel.
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