Kaleidocraft Prints: Joyful Desk Goods for Stationery Lovers (Sponsor)

If your desk reflects your colorful, expressive stationery style, Kaleidocraft Prints is a shop you’ll want to know. This family-run team 3D prints and hand-assembles every item in-house, creating accessories that feel personal, playful, and genuinely useful.

Just in time for the holiday season, they’re releasing Holiday Nib Holder Sets and Vial Holders - a festive, limited collection perfect for Inkvent participants and anyone adding seasonal flair to their workspace.

Their pen holders bring personality and warmth to your desk, giving your favorite pen a dedicated place to rest. Ink enthusiasts will love their charming ink sample holders, designed to keep samples organized, accessible, and fun to use.

Kaleidocraft also offers a new line of charms and zipper pulls for pen cases and notebooks plus a range of tactile fidgets — both clicker styles and silent floppy versions — perfect for pen addicts who love keeping their hands engaged with something analog.

Starting Monday, they’re running their biggest sale of the year: 15% off site-wide, plus an additional 5% off for Pen Addict readers with code ONEOFUS (Excludes gift cards and subscriptions).

My thanks to Kaleidocraft Prints for sponsoring The Pen Addict this week!

Zebra Mildliner Double-Sided Dot Marker Review

The Zebra Mildliner lineup is about as popular as it gets for forkers and highlighters. The colors are amazing, the uses are endless, and the styles are plentiful. So, what was missing from their lineup? Dots.

Dot markers were not something I knew I needed until I got the Kuretake ZIG Clean Color Dot Double-Sided Marker in my hands, and they were a game changer. Why? I don’t highlight much, but I do like to embellish my pages with various marks, and in various colors. Dot markers give me a fun option to play around with.

I bought this set of 10 Dual-tip Dot Markers this Summer from Zebra at the Atlas Stationers Sidewalk sale. I hadn’t seen them before, but apparently I hadn’t been looking hard enough, as they are available in a few pack sizes (2, 5, and this 10,) although not in the massive variety of shades found in the classic chisel-tip Mildliner lineup.

These dual markers feature two styles of tips: the aforementioned Dot tip, and a more traditional Bullet Marker tip on the opposite end. The Dot side is pressure sensitive, meaning you can press lightly for a small dot, or squish it down for a bigger one. This works perfectly since the tips are designed to bounce back and retain their original shape. The marker side is fine, but I would rather have a classic chisel tip on that end, or an even finer plastic tip for something different. That side is fine for filling in or coloring, but they don’t see much action.

The colors of this 10-pack are great, which should come as no surprise for a product with the Mildliner name attached to it. Cyan and Fuchsia are two of my favorite shades, while Summer Green isn’t quite my jam but fits well within the group, which overall gets a solid A-grade.

Not a great highlighter with the Zebra Sarasa R Gel Ink Pen.

If there is a downside to this product, it is that the Kuretake ZIG Clean Color Dot markers exist. I think the Kuretake version is better because I get that finer tip I’m looking for on the other side of the double-sided marker. They also have more colors than the Mildliner Dot lineup does, at least for now. Most options of both pens average out around the $2 per pen range, with some configurations of the Kuretake costing a bit more.

That said, Mildliner gonna Mildliner, and if you are in that ecosystem already, you will like what their Dot Markers bring to the page.

(I paid full price for this set of markers directly from Zebra USA.)

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Misfill, Midnight Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

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— Ink Review #2881: Journalize Midnight (Mountain of Ink)

— Weenk No. 3 Blue Black (Inkcredible Colours)

— Leitz Premium Notebook Review (Notebook Stories)

— A Few Words on AI and Art Therapy (Comfortable Shoes Studio)

— Who Are Your Human Mycelium? (From the Pen Cup)

— Tono and Lims Swatch Tests (Nick Stewart)

— Paper Review: Sterling Ink, Owl Paper, Hobonichi & Aura Estelle’s New Sanzen Paper (The Well-Appointed Desk)

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— Hand-Painted Artisanship - Benu Noel in Snow (Figboot on Pens)

— Tom's Studio Pens: The Lumos Pro Duo, Lumos Mini, Wren, and Studio Pocket Pen (From Carola)

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