Heads up about a common pen bleed-through issue I keep spotting

I was setting up my new monthly spread yesterday with a fresh notebook, a Moleskine from the local store. I tested my usual gel pen on the back page and it looked fine, but when I started the actual layout, the ink bled through to the next sheet. It's because I was pressing too hard on downstrokes without realizing it. Now I have ghosting on three important pages. Anyone have a favorite pen that truly doesn't bleed on thinner paper?

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patricia_rodriguez1mo ago

Oh the "pressing too hard on downstrokes" thing is my entire personality. My notebooks look like they've been attacked by a very determined woodpecker with a pen. I switched to those needle-tip fineliners because they basically write if you just breathe on them, so my heavy hand can't sabotage me as much. They're not magic, but I get way less of that weird shadow writing on the next page.

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vera2921mo ago

I had a teacher who used to make us do writing exercises with those super soft pencils, the ones that feel like they'll snap if you look at them wrong. It was supposed to "train a lighter touch." All it did was give me a pile of broken pencil tips and a permanent dent in my thumb. My handwriting never got any lighter, I just got better at hiding the evidence.

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