How many examples have you seen of writing fading away on paper over time?

[Guest]

Don't fade away my worn journal

[Mister Obvious]

Oh my, very nice song posting... lovely poignancy.

I feel like I've never heard it, but at the same time it sounds so familiar.

Artist: Dead Can Dance
Album: Toward the Within
Released: 1994

A 1994 release, so most likely I HAVE heard it.

2:23 favorite, it almost starts to have this 1970s essence to it.

[Mister Obvious]

So I have a 40 year old document on acid free archival quality paper, and it has writing on it that looks to be from a medium tip marker style pen. Dunno if it's water based ink, or alcohol. Anyway, 40 years old and the writing has faded down to about 80% opacity.

On the exact same document, there's writing of the same age, done in ballpoint pen ink, and it looks like it was written yesterday.