The erasable pens I remember using when I was in high school in the late 2000s were laughably bad. They required a lot of pressure to transfer ink to paper, and even then, the ink came out faded ...

The best pens on Amazon include fine-line pens beloved by bullet journalers, a quick-drying ballpoint that’s great for lefties, a pen used by astronauts, and a disposable fountain pen from Uni ...

Anyway, the Pilot Precise pens are available at most drugstores, cheap; I usually buy them by the dozen. They are very smooth, even on bad paper — I don’t have to press on them to write.

PILOT The Better Ball Point Pen Refillable & Retractable Ballpoint Pens What you need to know: This refillable and retractable pen has a textured barrel for extra grip comfort.

Pens don’t just need to function well; they need to look good, too. From Montblanc to Pilot, these are our 13 favorites.

The TUL BP3 retractable ballpoint is Jones’ favorite pen — and it’s also well-loved on Amazon, with a 4.8-star overall rating after over 1,300 reviews. It has an ergonomic design for ...

Synthetic Dyes Patents for ballpoint pens go back to the late 1800s, but it took half a century to develop good, fast-drying inks. Bic, Pilot, and other makers jealously guard their formulas, but ...

Ballpoint pens usually have a cap or a click/twist function to keep the ink from drying out. Gel pens are essentially a subset of ballpoint pens that use water-based gel ink. Felt: A felt-tip pen ...