Let’s get it out of the way – I like the look of pencils but I don’t ever use them. I went through a stage, maybe 10 years ago, where I bought some coloured pencil lead – pink and blue – which gave me some joy, but certainly not as much joy as my absolute favourite pens – gel pens!
I have three favourite gel pens and they all have three things in common:
- They’re point 0.7 mm
- They’re colourful (no black and boring blue; I do like a nice navy though)
- They all have retractable points
I started out with Pilot G2 0.7 – hunter green, sky blue, dark red, metallic colours, they’re all so good
then Pentel brought out such amazing colours in their energel brand – purple, pink, orange in addition to the green (I’ve been using them for 7 years)
and then my friend, Suzy, sent me a full set of Papermate Inkjoy Gel pens in the most delicious colours. At the time we couldn’t get them in South Africa. Now we can get them, but they’re R53 per pen! (see the pics in this post for the Papermate pens)
Which are your favourite pens? Or pencils, if that’s more your thing?
