pretty colors
Dec. 1st, 2009 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat1138Finally got the refillable mechanical colored pencils I was mooning over a while ago-- not just the 8 individual colors of the 0.7mm Pilot Eno pencils, but I ended up succumbing to the lure of the 2mm Pentel Multi-8 (8 colors in the same barrel) after all. I'd been afraid that the Multi-8 would be too thick and unwieldy for my hand, but it's really not much bulkier than the classic Bic 4-color ballpoint pen.
I'm surprised at the variation of certain hues across different brands. Out of three sets of colored leads (and I have a fourth around somewhere that I've lost track of), none of them have the same two shades of dark blue-- they range from vespery indigo to greenish navy. The reds are a bit closer together, but definitely lean apart toward orange, brown, or rose. I haven't checked any of them for erasability yet, but that's not a huge concern for me.
And so now I've given in to ordering a complete set of 12 refill colors for the Multi-8, though I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them all. I've been doing my color-coded activity charts for several months now and have only subjected my mini-set of 12 wooden pencils to a few rounds of tentative sharpening, barely enough for any noticeable difference in length among them. According to the system I've worked out so far, I really do need almost all 12 colors from the wooden set except for white; the 8 Eno colors and the current 8 leads in the Pentel are non-identical subsets of those 12 (one has violet and the other has brown). The full 12-color palette for the Pentel has peach instead of white; obviously only 8 colors will fit inside it at a time, but I could probably carry around a small tube with refill leads of the other 4 colors to swap in/out as needed.
...at least it's a less messy genre of writing toys than fountain-pen ink; last week while groping under a shelf I found a now-empty bottle which apparently hadn't been tightly sealed when the cats knocked it over. I haven't yet dared move the shelves to see how the floor looks under there.
I'm surprised at the variation of certain hues across different brands. Out of three sets of colored leads (and I have a fourth around somewhere that I've lost track of), none of them have the same two shades of dark blue-- they range from vespery indigo to greenish navy. The reds are a bit closer together, but definitely lean apart toward orange, brown, or rose. I haven't checked any of them for erasability yet, but that's not a huge concern for me.
And so now I've given in to ordering a complete set of 12 refill colors for the Multi-8, though I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them all. I've been doing my color-coded activity charts for several months now and have only subjected my mini-set of 12 wooden pencils to a few rounds of tentative sharpening, barely enough for any noticeable difference in length among them. According to the system I've worked out so far, I really do need almost all 12 colors from the wooden set except for white; the 8 Eno colors and the current 8 leads in the Pentel are non-identical subsets of those 12 (one has violet and the other has brown). The full 12-color palette for the Pentel has peach instead of white; obviously only 8 colors will fit inside it at a time, but I could probably carry around a small tube with refill leads of the other 4 colors to swap in/out as needed.
...at least it's a less messy genre of writing toys than fountain-pen ink; last week while groping under a shelf I found a now-empty bottle which apparently hadn't been tightly sealed when the cats knocked it over. I haven't yet dared move the shelves to see how the floor looks under there.