Green Leather Journals

Green Leather Journal Covers in Forest Green

Green is the hardest colour to buy from a photograph, because screens and studio lighting push it around more than any other. So, measured rather than described: Forest Green sits at the same luminance as our Black Onyx, with roughly a third of that hide's saturation. In practice it reads as a very dark green indoors and shows its colour properly in daylight or under a lamp.

How Dark Forest Green Actually Is

• Forest Green — dark enough to read almost black indoors, and never an olive. This collection.
• Chestnut — the same depth as Forest Green, separated only by hue; near espresso, much darker than the word brown leads people to expect. See Chestnut covers.
• Black Onyx — the same depth as Forest Green, separated only by hue; the neutral, with almost no colour in it at all. See Black Onyx covers.
• Bordeaux — one step lighter than Forest Green; clearly red rather than a brown leaning red, with roughly twice as much red as green or blue. See Bordeaux covers.
• Cognac — two steps lighter than Forest Green; the most saturated hide we cut, closer to rust-orange than to brown. See Cognac covers.
• Caramel — three steps lighter than Forest Green; the lightest of the six, a warm mid-brown that reads brown from across a room. See Caramel covers.

If you want green that announces itself across a room, this is not that leather. If you want a journal that looks black at a glance and green when someone picks it up, it is exactly that.

What Crazy Horse Leather Does Over Time

Crazy Horse is finished with wax and oil instead of a pigment coat, so nothing sits on top of the grain to crack or peel. Press a thumbnail in and the mark goes lighter rather than paler, because the wax moves aside; rub it and the wax comes back. It collects the marks of being used, which is the reason to buy it.

Forest Green in Every Size

Every size is cut in Forest Green — A4, B5, Sketchbook, A5, Cahier, Regular, B6, B6 Slim, A6, Personal, Pocket Size and Field Notes — from a 21 × 29.7 cm desk cover down to a 8.9 × 14 cm memo booklet.

Adding a Name to This Leather

Every cover in this collection can be personalized four ways: laser engraving, heat stamping into the leather, or that same stamping in gold or silver foil. At this depth, engraving and plain heat stamping read as shadow. Gold foil against dark green is the pairing that carries best; silver reads cooler and more restrained. Initials, a full name, a monogram, a date or a company logo all work.

What Goes With It

On the same elastics: notebook refills, inserts and organizers, pen cases and holders, journal charms and bookmark clips. All six leathers in all twelve sizes are on the leather journals hub.