Couldn't get my A6 in the same cute green, but I'm happy!
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I really love their look and selection of colors but I am always puzzled about people praising the quality of the paper. I tried one of their calendars last year and the paper is so thin that every single pen (gel, ballpoint, fountain, pencil) either completely bled through or was like 60% readable from the back - meaning that it looked really really messy and almost unreadable when the page was full on both sides...
Did I get some kind of faulty one, did I do something wrong?
Without knowing how you write, that's a tricky thing to answer. But since you said that even pencil bleeds through the page, to me that might indicate that you're pressing quite hard when you write. The only times I notice bleed through with pencil on my leuchtturm was early on when I started using them. I would see a lot of bleed near the bottom of the page, because back then I would press harder the closer to the bottom I got (since it's physically closer to me.)
If you still have it, try writing a little softer with it and see if that makes bleed-through and ghosting less of a problem. Especially with fountain pens, just let gravity do the work of dispensing the ink.
I mean, I'm not gonna say it's impossible. But my impression from years of use has been that Leuchtturms are of consistent quality. It might just be that they aren't the products you work best with.
This has little to do with thickness, I have some 52gsm paper which has less ghosting (see-through) than the 80gsm Leuchtturm paper. Bleed through isn't an issue with either, but I have some 90gsm no-name paper which suffers from it with some inks, but has very little ghosting. All with a fountain pen, but I suppose it depends a lot on the ink as well. I have no idea how a pencil can bleed through.