Hobonichi Weeks 2027 (Japanese): Smooth - Lavender Milk

The Weeks is Hobonichi's slim, pocketable planner: a weekly horizontal spread on the left, a full page of grid memo on the right, in a book narrow enough to live in a jacket pocket. Smooth is the soft-cover end of the range, built in a slightly padded PU that gives under the thumb and is the most comfortable of these to hold for any length of time. Lavender Milk is a pastel purple with enough grey in it to stay clean rather than sugary.

The cover bends readily and the pages turn easily, so it disappears into a coat pocket, though being soft it needs a hand on the page to lie flat. The year is foil-pressed in a matte silver.

Features

• Japanese edition, January start, Monday start

• A slightly padded PU softcover, the most comfortable in the range to hold

• A muted pastel lavender with a matte silver year

• Slim at 188 x 94 x 11 mm (7.4 x 3.7 x 0.4 in), narrow enough for a jacket pocket

• Stitch-bound softcover, easy to flip and pocketable, though it needs holding down to lie flat

• Tomoe River paper, thin and light but resistant to feathering and bleed with fountain pen ink

• A clear adhesive corner pocket is included, to stick wherever you want the storage