Whitelines Notebooks: Your Paper Should Not Distract

Whitelines Notebooks uses a very simple, intuitive design idea: the only thing that should stand out on a page is what you write. The company’s designers realize that lined and graphed paper helps ensure steady writing and legibility, but counter that these guides should never compete with one’s note taking. Instead of dark lines, Whitelines use, shockingly, white lines, traced over a very light gray paper. The overlay is perfectly contrasted, offering a balance of visibility and subtly. Whitelines also strives to keep the carbon footprint associated with their notebooks’ fabrication as close to zero as possible; they trap and reuse CO2 from the manufacturing process, shipping their products in boats that use the notepads as ballast, and planting trees in Uganda to offset whatever carbon guilt is left over.

[via CoolHunting]