Blue

We all have a favourite colour? For me it is the colour blue, I don't know why, but from an early age I can always remember preferring the colour blue, when I had a choice of picking things myself.

I used to support a couple of football teams whose colours were blue (Everton and Tranmere Rovers) but my love of football was a fairly short lived thing.

I've owned three or four blue cars, including our current one.

I have a lot of blue shirts and of course some blue jeans...

However, not many blue organisers. I've never really thought about it before now but why aren't there more blue organisers? I know Filofax have had quite a few in the past and there are some in their current range.

Here is three in my collection.

A blue and black Filofax personal size Fusion, my A5 Gillio Compagna in dark blue and my Van der Spek blue and grey custom standard size (personal size).

These three are very different in character/features, but I love them all for different reasons.

What is your favourite colour for an organiser?

Gillio Leather Colours and Model Codes

Have you ever wondered what the mysterious numbers are on the stickers of Gillio boxes? They designate the model size/model type and the colours of the leather.

The first number is the size of the organiser, and the second number is the model or layout

• 229/11 Amica Mini
• 223/11 Amica Pocket
• 224/10 Amica Medium
• 238/18 Amica A5
• 229/14 Compagna Mini
• 223/14 Compagna Pocket
• 231/02 Compagna A6
• 222/02 Compagna Slim
• 224/02 Compagna Medium
• 238/02 Compagna A5
• 229/08 Mia Cara Mini
• 223/08 Mia Cara Pocket
• 231/08 Mia Cara A6
• 224/08 Mia Cara Medium
• 238/08 Mia Cara A5

So 238/02 from the above list is an A5 Compagna which is what is in this box. and 828 is the colour Royal Blue.

Here are the leather samples scanned in.

Choosing a colour?

How do you decide which colour to buy when you are picking a new organiser? There are so many colours I like these days, making that crucial decision is not easy?

Do you have any favourite colours?

What Colour?

What influences you in deciding what colour Filofax to buy?  Some models come in quite a range of colours, the Domino and Finsbury seem to have a new colour added every year, replacing a previous colour, so there is always quite a range of colours available.

Do you like to match colours between sizes, if you use more than one. Or do you match the colour of your organiser to your bag or desk accessories?

As you can see in the picture above taken at the recent Philofaxy London meet up, red stands out as being a popular colour, all those crimson Maldens! Yes we did get our own back again!

So if you were to be a winner in our current competition, and you were given the choice of colour of your prize, how would you decide? 

'Got to be in it to win it....don't delay enter today'