ink and wash

Linda

A cool, quiet page, like a grandmother's sketchbook of ink and watercolor. The day is written over a round wash of cerulean, the title's rule is a pen line drawn twice, a tick is a pen loop, and a voice note plays from a dab of wash. Nothing on it is a ruled line, and nothing on it is loud. What you keep comes back as small sketches: a cat at the window, birds on a wire, tea and a letter, and your photos stay whole.

Linda is in your journalFree in early access

Free while Haumm is in early access. After that, every journal has White and Night, joining the paid plan adds three looks you choose, and more are a few dollars each, yours to keep, even on the free plan. You can try any look on your own pages first.

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In the app: Settings → Preferences → Appearance → Linda, then Light, Dark or Match my device, which turns with your phone or computer. On a computer, the look's name at the top of the journal opens the same choices. It follows your account to every device.

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Linda on a phone, drawn by the Haumm app

and dark

Linda, dark

The same sketchbook at night, in Payne's grey with a little cerulean in it, for writing after the house is asleep: pale words, and the washes in deeper pans. The same pen lines, and the same wall in Commonplace.

Linda's dark side on a phone, drawn by the Haumm app

A page like a sketchbook.

(one page, in the app.)

A page in Linda, drawn by the Haumm app with a made-up journal, and what makes it Linda.

The day, washed in
The day written over a round wash of cerulean, a little ochre beside it and a few drops flicked off: the weekday above, the month and year under. The title's rule is a pen line drawn twice, with a dot of wash where it starts.
Lists on soft washes
Each list sits on a soft patch of its own color, with no outline: tasks in cerulean, habits in sap green, gratitude in ochre, each marked by a dab of the same.
A pen loop for a tick
A tick is a pen loop that overshoots where it closes. Done, it's a dab of sap green with the tick inked over it.
A pen line for a voice note
A voice note plays from a round cerulean wash with its sign drawn in pen, and its own levels are one pen line that swings with them, a wash under what's been played.

What you keep, sketched.

(one wall for both.)

Keep a line, a list, a photo or a voice note and it comes back as one of twenty-four small sketches in ink and wash, in cerulean, sap green or ochre: a small figure under a big sky, a tree on a headland, a cat at the window, birds on the wire, a chair by the window, a kitchen shelf, a washing line, tea and a letter. A voice note's own levels become a kite's string, the edge of a shore or the sea under a wall, turning a warm sienna as it plays. Photos stay whole and as big as they can be, the washes only in the space beside them. Re-roll for another. With Posters off, each piece is a loose leaf from the sketchbook.

A Linda poster from Commonplace, a passage beside a cat at the window, in ink and wash, drawn by the app

A Linda poster from Commonplace, a photo shown whole through a sketched window, drawn by the app

A Linda poster from Commonplace, a line under birds on two wires, drawn by the app

A Linda poster from Commonplace, a voice note drawn as the edge of a shore, with someone walking a dog, drawn by the app

A Linda poster from Commonplace, a photo shown whole, a pen horizon running on past it, drawn by the app

A Linda poster from Commonplace, a line in a big wash of sky over a small figure on a hill, drawn by the app

Not just the page.

(every room, in Linda.)

This is the app itself, with a made-up journal. Click through the page, Commonplace and Bookmarks, light or dark, and flip the writing between serif and sans.

Drawn by the Haumm app itself, with a made-up journal. Tick a task or a habit, or play the voice note; nothing is saved.

Paper

Light: cool watercolor paper on a cerulean wash, a fine liner's ink, viridian and sap green. Dark: Payne's grey with cerulean in it, pale words, the same washes deeper.