Amazon Basics Retractable Gel Ink Pens - Fine Point, Black, 12-Pack

I love these pens. When writing from a slatted angle they glide like a gel pen. But when writing straight up, they’re like a fine ball point pen. And the colour is royal blue.

Work well, great value

Good value

I like the price and just seem the same as more pricey ones

Amazon Basics Retractable Gel Ink Pens - Fine Point, Black, 12-Pack===================================================I used to primarily use staedtler ballpoint pens, but years ago after falling in love with gel pens I only ever use these ones nowadays. Yes the gel pens don't last anywhere near as long as ball points and ball points are way cheaper, but I really like these Amazon basic ones. I do a fair amount of writing notes and usually buy a box or two of these every 6-8 months or so. Each pen is sealed with a tiny red lump of wax or whatever it is - easy to pull off and can start to use straight away.love the fact that as it gets towards the end you don't have to keep flicking the pen, as you would with ballpoints to get the last few drops of ink. Also general writing is very easy compared to ballpoint, especially if you like writing in small text sizes and I don't get writer's cramps as often with these pens.The thing I don't like about these pens is that the ink doesn't always dry straight away, and if you turn the page over too soon, or put your hand over it, you end up smearing the ink. However, the ink is still good enough to use on both sides of the same page even on 70 and 80 gm paper. The other minor niggle is on some types of paper the ink doesn't flow like it normally does - it behaves like it's running out of ink, and comes out scratchy, but when you switch to normal paper it flows ust fine. Overall great gel pens. Over last few years the pens have sold between 8 and 10 pounds per box of 12.

These pens are of good quality. But I don't know who chooses the colours and there is only one yellow coloured pen in the set and seeing as yellow is a primary colour there really should be a few different shades of yellow as it's one of the important colours that any artist uses. I thought it was just a mistake and I recorded another set but the same thing happened only one yellow . Comes with a different stand to the one in the picture. Would I recommend well I would if there was more yellow pens. They are easy to hold and they draw and write very well. There are glitter and luminous and metallic colours in the box, they are a basic pen and still worth the budget price, good value for the stand. Hope amazon reviews this and adds more yellow and then I would buy again.

Really very good pens would buy again

It’s very difficult to find good pens, especially as a left handed person, so these are great. Just make sure to remove all the wax when taking the wax off on first use, this may take a few diffrent attempts as if it is not all off there is a bumpy writing experience