Some notebooks are designed to be used up and replaced. Others you keep. Leuchtturm1917's Covered for Sunshine is firmly in the second camp — a limited-edition summer release that earns its place on the desk through the quality of its materials and the simple pleasure of opening it on a bright morning.
We've just added the two pieces in the range — the notebook and a colour-matched pen loop — and they're worth a proper look while they last.
The detail that sets it apart: linen
Most hardcover notebooks use a paper or synthetic cover. Covered for Sunshine is bound in linen, and the difference is one you feel before you've written a word. Linen has a texture and a warmth that the usual finishes don't, and it improves with handling — softening gently at the corners, holding its colour, and taking on a character that becomes entirely your own. It's the kind of cover that looks better after a summer in a bag than it did on the shelf.
The colours are drawn straight from the season: Beach Rose, Pinetree, Dune and Atlantic — a soft pink, a deep green, a warm sand and a clear blue. Each is finished with colour-matched page edges, and each comes with a matching postcard for sending a little sunshine to someone else.
A proper Leuchtturm1917 underneath
The summer dress doesn't come at the expense of substance. Inside is the notebook Leuchtturm1917 is known for:
- A5 medium format (148 × 210 mm), 251 numbered pages
- Dotted ruling — faint enough to disappear under your writing, present enough to keep things straight
- Smooth, ink-friendly paper that handles fountain pen, rollerball and pencil
- An empty table of contents, two ribbon bookmarks, perforated detachable sheets at the back, a gusseted pocket inside the cover, and self-adhesive labels for the spine
The dot grid is the most versatile ruling there is — equally at home with bullet journalling, sketching, planning or plain longhand — which makes this a notebook you can point at almost any job.
What to use it for
The honest answer is: whatever you like. But a few ideas that suit a summer notebook in particular — a travel journal for the months when there's more worth writing down; a sketchbook for ideas that deserve better than the back of a receipt; a fresh start for a project or a habit, helped along by the fact that a good-looking notebook is one you actually open.
Finish the set with the pen loop
A notebook and a pen that travel separately have a way of becoming a notebook and a lost pen. The colour-matched Covered for Sunshine pen loop is a small, self-adhesive elastic holder that fixes to the cover and keeps your pen exactly where you need it — a small upgrade you wonder how you managed without.
A note on "limited edition"
That phrase is doing real work here. Covered for Sunshine is a seasonal release, not a permanent line — once this run is gone, it's gone. If one of the colours is calling to you, it's worth not waiting.
You'll find the full range, in all four colours, in our Leuchtturm1917 Notebooks & Stationery collection.
Shop the Covered for Sunshine notebook and pen loop — Beach Rose, Pinetree, Dune and Atlantic, while stocks last.
