Change for 2025

I like bright colors. If you don't need sunglasses to look at it, it's not bright enough! :-)

This color aesthetic has included the colors of pens I use in my planners. I've been using purple ink to write and crossing off my completed items with neon pink highlighter. The colors of the tabs I use to mark pages I need to refer to are bright, and so is anything else you can name.

For 2025 I've decided to move to a neutral color palette. This is where the shocked face comes in.

I'm not sure why I made this decision. Maybe it has something to do with moving into a completely different planner than I've used for the last eight or nine years. Maybe I just need something different to be excited about. Maybe it was just time for a change.

That's part of the reason for the pen tests. I'm using a .5 mm burgundy pen in my mulberry-colored weekly planner. I have a brown pen and an olive pen, and of course, a pen with black ink. My highlighter color is called Chai Latte and it's the perfect shade of brown. I even have dot markers in neutrals like gray, beige, and pale earthy green.

There's no time frame for how long I use these colors. At least through 2025 because I'd hate to switch up mid-year, but after that? Shrug. Who knows?

I am very excited by this change, so it's pretty clear I was bored with the old colors. Sometimes, we just need to change things up.