Blue Leather Journals

Sarcelle is the blue in the range: a deep teal blue with green in it, not a navy. It comes on two models so far: Alpine, which takes six notebooks, and Pamella, which takes three. Blue leather journal covers and blue leather notebook covers, refillable, in eight sizes from Field Notes to A4.

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About Blue Leather Journals

Blue Leather Journal Covers in Sarcelle Teal

If the blue you have in mind is navy, this is the wrong page, and it is better you learn that here than when the parcel arrives. Sarcelle is the French word for teal. The leather is exactly that: measured off our own photographs it is blue and green in almost equal parts, green ahead by a nose, with hardly any red in it at all.

How Sarcelle Differs From Forest Green

We already cut a green, and you will have no trouble telling the two apart. Forest Green is a dark bottle green that can pass for black indoors. In the same photograph Sarcelle is about a third brighter and more than twice as saturated, and it carries nearly as much blue as green. Side by side, nobody mixes them up.

Two Models: Alpine and Pamella

Sarcelle is cut for two covers, both trifolds. If you want it on a bifold, we do not make one yet.

Alpine gives you six elastics in a double row, so up to six notebooks, with two slip pockets, a zip pocket and a pen loop. It costs $90 in the A5 Alpine.
Pamella gives you three elastics, card slots on the left and an angled pocket with a pen loop on the right: half the capacity and less bulk, at $80 in the A5 Pamella.

Both are $5 above the six base colors. Choose by how many notebooks you carry.

Blue in Eight Sizes

You can have both models in Field Notes, Pocket Size, A6, B6, Regular, A5, B5 and A4. Regular is our blue traveler's notebook cover: it takes 4.3" × 8.3" (11 × 21 cm) refills, Traveler's Company's included. If you write in a Leuchtturm1917 Medium or a Hobonichi Cousin, a blue leather notebook cover in A5 takes it, and the A5 Alpine has an inner pocket sized for a Kindle Colorsoft.

How Teal Changes

Sarcelle is Crazy Horse with a wax finish, like our six base colors. The paler streaks on the flap in our photos are that wax: flex the hide and it shifts, and the teal shows lighter for a while. Press a mark with your thumb and it mostly closes up. Handling darkens the color where you hold it, so in time the spine and the flap edge will sit deeper than the panels. If you want a teal that stays exactly as it arrived, a coated cover will serve you better.

Personalizing and Filling It

You choose personalization on the product page: laser engraving, heat stamping, gold foil or silver foil. The elastics take notebook refills and journal charms. Leather inserts and pen cases are not cut in Sarcelle yet. If you want this blue next to a second color, Florentine in the two-tone collection pairs a teal outside with red pockets. The neutral alternative is Black Onyx, and you will find every other leather on the leather journals hub.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Blue Leather Journals

Is Sarcelle blue or green?

Both, which is what teal is. Measured off our own photographs, the blue and the green in it are within a tenth of each other, green slightly ahead, and there is almost no red. We call it blue because it is the only blue we cut; teal is the more exact word. If you need a navy, royal or cobalt blue, this is not your color.

Do you make a navy blue leather journal?

Not at the moment. Sarcelle, a teal, is the only blue leather we cut. If you need a dark cool color, the nearest in the range is Forest Green, and the neutral dark is Black Onyx. If the journal is a gift and the brief you were given was navy, choose one of those two and not the teal.

What is the difference between the Alpine and Pamella blue leather notebook covers?

Capacity and pockets. Alpine has six elastics, a zip pocket and two slip pockets, and costs $90 in A5. Pamella has three elastics, card slots and an angled pocket, and costs $80 in A5. Both are trifolds with a pen loop and both come in the same eight sizes, so your choice comes down to how many notebooks you carry.

Which notebooks fit a blue leather journal cover?

Standard ones, so nothing locks you into our paper. A5 takes a Leuchtturm1917 Medium, a Hobonichi Cousin, a Midori MD A5 or a Rhodia A5. A6 takes a Hobonichi Techo. Regular takes Traveler's Company refills at 4.3" × 8.3" (11 × 21 cm), and the smallest size takes 3.5" × 5.5" (8.9 × 14 cm) Field Notes memo books.

Is this the blue TRAVELER'S notebook from Traveler's Company?

No. That is Traveler's Company's own notebook and we are not affiliated with them. Ours is a different cover in teal leather, with pockets and three or six elastics. What the two share is the format: our Regular size takes the same 4.3" × 8.3" (11 × 21 cm) refills you may already own.