Werner’s Sticky Notes Set

You’ll never forget to buy more milk with these bold Post-It style notes. There are five different sized and different coloured notepads, which all fit neatly into a presentation booklet.

The five colours – Mountain Green, Red Lilac Purple, Cream Yellow, Buff Orange and Aurora Red – have been chosen from the book Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours. Created by Patrick Syme, it was first published in 1814 with the aim of helping artists and naturalists describe plants, animals and minerals in a consistent way before the advent of photography.

The book title is printed on the inside cover along with an inscription about how Charles Darwin used it when surveying specimens during the Voyage of the Beagle between 1831 and 1836.

The front cover of the set features a chart of these and other colours similar to how they’re recorded in the original book.