Field Notes Spring 2026 Quarterly Edition 'Lucky'

Spring 2026 has arrived, and with the season of change comes the 70th quarterly edition, “Lucky,” and with it the U.S. bids farewell to the fortuitous penny.

First minted in 1793, the copper one-cent piece graced jean pockets, change jars, coin purses, car floors, cash registers, and the bottoms of wells and fountains with its distinct auburn sheen for over two hundred years. 

While the U.S. Treasury stopped minting pennies last November, 114 billion pennies remain in circulation. They’re not going away immediately.

This edition honors the coin’s legacy by mimicking copper’s enduring shades of wear: the orangeish-pink “Rosewood,” the well-worn, dirty “Mocha,” and the oxidized green patina of “Mint” Mohawk Mosaic 100-lb cover stocks. Each cover is stamped with metallic copper foil and embossed on the back with the penny’s three distinct obverse designs: stalks of wheat, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Great Seal. The flip-side of each pack’s backing card contains a heartfelt ode to the cent, with a space to enshrine your luckiest penny, whether it’s a shiny example of 2025’s last batch, or one you found, face-up, on the sidewalk decades ago.

Copper staples bind 48 pages of 60#T Domtar Cougar Natural inside, ruled in copper with faint mint ledger columns; use those vertical columns to add up your change, to mark off a checklist, or simply ignore them for regular ruled writing.

1. Proudly printed by the good people of Classic Color, Broadview, Ill.
2. Covers: Mohawk Mosaic 100#C “Rosewood,” “Mocha,” and “Mint,” hot-foil stamped with “Shiny Penny Copper.”
3. Innards: Domtar Cougar Natural 60#T “Natural,” with a fine, 2-color application of “Heads Up” and “Oxidized” soy-based Superior inks.
4. Cover and innards printed on a Komori Lithrone 640 six-color UV printing press.
5. Bound with a Muller Martini Presto II saddle stitcher with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.”
6. Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge DCM double round-corner machine.
7. Ledger lines spaced at 1/4" (6.4mm).
8. Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm × 140mm).
9. FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927), in collaboration with Monotype.
10. All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.
11. Limited Edition of 30,000 3-Packs.