Updated October 8, 2018:

We’ve added links to our updated guide to mechanical pencils and our all-new guide to notebooks.

We interviewed experts with thousands of hours of experience testing stationery, and subjected their favorite pens to nearly 70 professionally picky Wirecutter staffers, to affirm that the Uni-ball Jetstream is the best pen for everyday writing. It’s easy to find in stores, it writes smoothly on most paper, and it’s affordable enough that you won’t be heartbroken if someone permanently borrows it.

Uni-ball Jetstream

The best pen

Affordable, smooth, left-hand friendly, and filled with the best-performing ink, the Jetstream is a verified go-to pen.

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For most people in most situations, the Uni-ball Jetstream is the best pen for the job. Its pigment-darkened ballpoint ink flows out smoothly and evenly, without skipping and with minimal pressure. The ink sinks into paper and dries quickly (which is great for lefties), and it rarely, if ever, feathers out from your lines or bleeds through good notebook paper. Available in a variety of tip widths and colors, the Jetstream is sold in office-supply stores and through online merchants. It felt reasonably good in our testers’ hands, and it has been a Wirecutter pick since 2013.

Tip width as tested: 0.7 mm
Widths available: 0.38 mm, 0.5 mm, 0.7 mm, 1.0 mm
Style: Ballpoint
Ink type: Hybrid (low-viscosity ballpoint ink with pigments)

Also great

Pilot Precise V5 RT

Grippier feel, darker ink

This pen isn’t the smoothest writing, but that slight bit of friction and its dark ink make it great for fine lettering or drawing.

Buying Options

*At the time of publishing, the price was $15.

If you prefer a darker line than the Jetstream’s, if you write in smaller, tighter letters, or if you like a bit of resistance from the paper whether you’re writing or drawing, the Pilot Precise V5 RT is another affordable and widely available pen to consider. Some experts and testers liked that it wasn’t as smooth as the Jetstream, preferring the feel of its finer point. It has a slightly thicker grip than the Jetstream, and it has darker ink that doesn’t dry as quickly but performs well on most paper.

Tip width as tested: 0.5 mm
Widths available: 0.5 mm (V5), 0.7 mm (V7)
Style: Rollerball
Ink type: Liquid

Also great

Uni-ball Signo 307

The best gel pen

The Signo 307 is a smooth, quick writing tool that lays down a thick line more reliably than other popular gel pens.

Buying Options

*At the time of publishing, the price was $0.

If you want broad lines and even more of a gliding stroke than the Jetstream offers, and you don’t mind some smudging, a bit of paper bleed-through, or the occasional feathering or ink pooling, the Uni-ball Signo 307 is a highly recommended gel pen. Experts and staff testers called it an upgrade in smoothness, grip, and legibility compared with the well-known Pilot G2.

Tip width as tested: 0.7 mm
Widths available: 0.38 mm, 0.5 mm, 0.7 mm
Style: Rollerball
Ink type: Gel

Writing samples from our picks

The Uni-ball Jetstream on Field Notes paper. Writing sample: Lilly Bellman / Photo: Tim Barribeau

The Pilot Precise V5 RT on Field Notes paper. Writing sample: Lilly Bellman / Photo: Tim Barribeau

The Uni-ball Signo 307 on Field Notes paper. Writing sample: Lilly Bellman / Photo: Tim Barribeau

Everything we recommend

Uni-ball Jetstream

The best pen

Affordable, smooth, left-hand friendly, and filled with the best-performing ink, the Jetstream is a verified go-to pen.

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Also great

Pilot Precise V5 RT

Grippier feel, darker ink

This pen isn’t the smoothest writing, but that slight bit of friction and its dark ink make it great for fine lettering or drawing.

Buying Options

*At the time of publishing, the price was $15.

Also great

Uni-ball Signo 307

The best gel pen

The Signo 307 is a smooth, quick writing tool that lays down a thick line more reliably than other popular gel pens.

Buying Options

*At the time of publishing, the price was $0.

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The research

Why you should trust us

I’ve spent more than 100 hours researching pens, mechanical pencils, and notebooks for a trio of Wirecutter guides. I’ve studied pen styles, ink performance, and tip widths. I’ve read detailed reviews of every mass-market pen posted on the leading pen blogs since this guide was first published in 2013, and I’ve asked experienced pen bloggers what I’ve missed. For a month, I carried one or two pocket notebooks everywhere I went, plotting out vacation days in a foreign city, tackling grocery and to-do lists, and taking notes on meetings.

After research and personal testing, Wirecutter bought hundreds of the best-rated pens, pencils, and notebooks and had nearly every staffer use them during our three-day company meeting and then compare them side by side in a testing session.

Although my handwriting is terrible, I am an experienced Wirecutter writer and notepad-toting newspaper journalist. Over the past five years, I’ve written dozens of guides. Perhaps most relevant, I edited a larger guide to home-office supplies.

Editor Tim Barribeau wrote the original version of this guide in 2013 and has also covered pencils, notebooks, and other stationery for Wirecutter. He’ll steal your Pilot G2 when you’re not looking, and replace it with an actually good pen.

The best mechanical pencil companion to your pen, and best notebook for it

The Best Mechanical Pencils

The Uni Kuru Toga Pipe Slide is the best mechanical pencil for most people, thanks to a unique rotating mechanism that keeps the lead at a sharp point.

The Best Notebooks

No one notebook is going to match every person’s needs, so we found nine of them—all of which are better than what you grabbed off the shelf at the pharmacy.

Who this is for

Pens are something most people don’t think much about when buying. Sometimes you can go long stretches without purchasing any pen, relying instead on hotels, offices, conferences, and other scenes of benign theft and giveaways to stock your home or desk.

Spend just two or three dollars on a good pen, and your handwriting can be more attractive—and possibly readable—thanks to smoother ink and better flow.

But spend just two or three dollars on a good pen, and your handwriting can be more attractive—and possibly readable—thanks to smoother ink and better flow. And you won’t find yourself needing to scrounge up a second pen when a cheap pen dries up on you.

Take it from nearly 70 of my co-workers, who tested three very different pens: You may not think you have an opinion on what makes the best pen for you, but you do.

How we picked

We focused on affordable pens ($5 or less each) for this guide, such that losing one wouldn’t feel like a small tragedy. We also sought pens that you could easily find at a big-box retailer, an office-supply store, or a major online vendor like Amazon. We had a similar focus for the first version of this guide in 2013, but these days many more high-quality pens are more readily available, at a lower cost, to everyone.

To sort through these new additions and reassess our original picks, we again consulted experienced bloggers who reviewed pens. These experts have tried nearly every pen worth noting (and many utterly plain options) on different papers, with different writing styles, and compared them with similar pens in their heads and their blogs’ archives.

We checked in with two of the bloggers who informed our original picks:

• Brad Dowdy, The Pen Addict, has blogged on pens since 2007 and is often linked and referenced by other pen bloggers. He has written more than a thousand reviews of pens and stationery. He is a co-founder of Nock Co., a maker of stationery bags and notebooks, and he tweets under @dowdyism.
• Elizabeth Price of No Pen Intended has written hundreds of pen reviews, many of them focused on fountain models. She is both left-handed and an artist, and she tweets under @NoPenIntended.

We also relied on the advice provided for the first version of this guide by two other experts:

• Brian Greene of OfficeSupplyGeek has blogged on pens and other work gear since 2008, and tweets under @OfficeSupplyGee.
• Azizah Asgarali of Gourmet Pens has reviewed more than 250 pens and stationery items since 2010.

On top of that, we dug through posts these experts had added to their sites since the previous version of this guide, along with a few other resources such as Art Supply Critic, The Well-Appointed Desk, and anything we found in wider searches for newer pen models.

Going by these expert recommendations, both from our interviews with them and in their own writing, we assembled a short list of nine new pens to compare against our previous picks. Based on how well the pens wrote and how widely available they were, we then cut the group down to three finalists:

• the Uni-ball Jetstream, our original top pick
• the Pilot Precise V5 RT, a newer, retractable, and now airplane-safe version of a highly regarded ballpoint pen
• the Uni-ball Signo 307, a gel-pen successor to the Signo 207, which we had considered and dismissed in a previous version of this guide

More detail on the pens we considered but did not test is in the Competition section. If you’re looking for a pen that has a bit more character but may be harder to find, more expensive, or not quite as good for every possible situation, we’ve also assembled a list of some of our staff’s favorite pens. And if you’re wondering what the difference is between ballpoint, rollerball, and gel pens—and which one might suit your writing style best—we have a pen-type primer below.

How we tested

Although our experts brought more than 35 combined years of experience reviewing pens, and at least 2,000 reviews, to bear on their pen recommendations, they are still just four people. Every person is unique in how they write and what they like about pens. To get a wider sampling of input, we enlisted Wirecutter staffers to test our three finalist pens.

We gave all Wirecutter employees attending a three-day company meeting and workshop a Jetstream and a Precise V5 RT, along with a Field Notes notebook (the top pocket pick in our notebook guide), and asked them to take notes using those tools throughout the event. On the third day, we hosted a more focused testing session during which more than 65 of those employees received Signo 307 pens and a wider variety of high-quality notebooks to write in. We tested all three pens in their most common tip width—although you can track any of them down in thicker or thinner variants, those variants are often harder to find, so we erred in favor of what you’re more likely to get your hands on.

We tested each pen’s propensity to smudge and noticed how quickly its ink dried. Writing sample: Lilly Bellman / Photo: Tim Barribeau

We tested each pen’s propensity to smudge and noticed how quickly its ink dried. Writing sample: Lilly Bellman / Photo: Tim Barribeau

Each staffer who attended the testing session filled out a survey. We asked them all about our most important criteria for pens, in this (rough) order:

• smoothness of writing
• uniformity of lines
• fineness of point
• ease of ink flow
• lack of skipping
• comfort in holding
• least pressure required to write with clean, uniform lines
• lack of ink feathering outward from lines
• ghosting, or bleed-through of ink onto the underside of pages
• ink drying quickly and not smudging under the hand
• reliability of pen function
• looks and design

Finally, we asked the participants to pick their One True Pen, and offered them an opportunity to justify their pick. Wirecutter staffers—a particular people if ever such existed—did not lack for opinions on these pens.

Our pick: Uni-ball Jetstream

Uni-ball Jetstream

The best pen

Affordable, smooth, left-hand friendly, and filled with the best-performing ink, the Jetstream is a verified go-to pen.

Buying Options

Our testing group agreed with our experts: The Uni-ball Jetstream is the best pen for most everyday writing tasks. It’s smoother than nearly any other ballpoint, its ink flows without blobbing, skipping, feathering, or bleeding through pages, it dries quickly without smudging, and it’s better in every way than the free pens you may have gathered over time. The Jetstream is available in a variety of tip widths and colors, and is sold in office-supply stores and through online merchants. It felt reasonably good in testers’ hands, and it has been a Wirecutter pick since 2013.

Brad Dowdy of The Pen Addict and Elizabeth Price of No Pen Intended confirmed that their original Jetstream recommendations hold up today. More than half of the Wirecutter staffers attending our testing sessions picked the Jetstream as their One True Pen, giving it more than twice as many votes as the Precise V5 RT, which came in second; some staffers who preferred one of the other two pens even admitted that the Jetstream was technically better. As Wirecutter senior editor Nathan Edwards put it: “

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It doesn’t spark joy but it creates the most legible writing which, again, ugh, I suppose is the point. It feathers least, dries about the fastest, and had the most uniform stroke width under variable conditions.”

The way ink glides out of the Jetstream onto the paper is its most significant differentiator from other pens. Brian Greene of OfficeSupplyGeek previously described the Jetstream as “

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super smooth and solidly consistent,” and wrote in 2009 that it “

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effortlessly … glided across the paper,” to the point it felt like “

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what happens when you hydroplane in a car.” During our testing, one Wirecutter staffer wrote that the Jetstream’s “

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glide was the most smooth and relaxed,” and that the pen “

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felt more comfortable writing with minimal pressure.” Another said the Jetstream, compared with the Precise V5 RT and Signo 307, was “

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the only pen that didn’t smudge and didn’t skip.”

The Jetstream’s ink is nearly as notable as the pen’s writing feel. Pen experts in 2013 gave the Jetstream a perfect score for feathering, bleeding, and drying time—and our staff testing in 2018 bore that out. More than two-thirds of our testers said the Jetstream’s ink dried the fastest and smudged the least. Notably, all four of our left-handed testers chose the Jetstream as their favorite pen and gave it the highest marks for drying time. More than half of our staffers said the Jetstream’s ink feathered the least of the three testing pens. Compared with the ink from the other pens we tested, the Jetstream’s ink showed the least on the opposite sides of notebook pages.

If you don’t love the feel of the standard Jetstream’s barely-there grip, the width of its tip, or the comparatively lighter color of its ink, you have a lot of options if you’re willing to venture outside your office-supply store. The standard 0.7 mm “

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fine” tip comes in black, blue, and a black/blue/red multipack. 1 Uni-ball sells a 1.0 mm “

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bold” tip, but it produces only a subtle change in line size. Although 0.5 mm and 0.38 mm tips exist, they are not as smooth, according to our experts, but if you write extremely small you may enjoy their precision. Beyond the tip width, you can upgrade your Jetstream choice in a number of ways while keeping the smoothness and ink performance:

• The Uni-ball Jetstream Premier has a 1.0 mm tip, a larger body, and a soft grip.
• The Uni Jetstream Alpha-Gel has a 0.7 mm tip, a thinner body, and a similarly soft grip.
• The Uni Style Fit has a sleek metal body that allows you to simultaneously slot inks from Jetstream or Signo pens, and switch between them.

Jetstream pens feature Uni-ball’s Super Ink, a type of ink that’s resistant to forgery by means of removal (such as with acetone), water, and fading; in addition, the ink can write well on glossy paper, including receipts. It’s not a common need, but the feature is nice to keep in mind if you’re stocking a home or office.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

The most consistent complaint among our staff testers was the color of ink the standard Jetstream produces. “

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I don’t like the color or sheen of the Jetstream ink but it does perform the best,” wrote one tester. “

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I like a thicker line than the Jetstream provides,” wrote another.

Uni-ball’s RT BLX Jetstream pens produce darker lines than the standard Jetstream ink, but only by a bit. If you want a truly dark ink, and more of it, consider either of our other picks.

The feel of the standard Jetstream pen is not its strongest suit. A few staffers described the body as too large, or wished it had a softer grip. We think the Jetstream’s feel is a considerable upgrade from that of typical stick pens. If you like the feel and ink of the Jetstream, you can upgrade to one of the variants mentioned above or choose from a wide range of other colors and styles—start with a sampler pack, perhaps.

Some testers disliked the humble, utilitarian looks of the Jetstream. “

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It reminds me of the ugliest, least nostalgic parts of the ’90’s,” wrote one tester. Some of the Jetstream variants are arguably better looking—and you can also find third-party pen bodies that can take Jetstream refills.

Also great: Pilot Precise V5 RT

Also great

Pilot Precise V5 RT

Grippier feel, darker ink

This pen isn’t the smoothest writing, but that slight bit of friction and its dark ink make it great for fine lettering or drawing.

Buying Options

*At the time of publishing, the price was $15.

Pen bloggers hold the Precise V5 RT in high regard. Brian Greene of OfficeSupplyGeek writes that V5 RT pens “

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put down a very smooth line and seem to glide across the paper, while leaving a bright line that dries almost instantly.” Brad Dowdy of The Pen Addict dubs the V5 RT “

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one of my go-to pens for any situation.” Elizabeth Price of No Pen Intended summarizes the V5 RT succinctly: “

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The design is great, the pen is comfortable, and the ink is dark, smooth, and consistent.”

We dismissed the precursor to the V5 RT, the Pilot Precise V5, in the initial version of this guide. At the time, we cited its dated looks, its uncomfortable grip (or entire lack thereof), and issues we encountered with bleeding, feathering, and a lack of smoothness and uniformity of lines. The V5 RT has a new look that is far more modern. It has a retractable tip (that’s what the “

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RT” stands for), so it’s pocket-safe and you won’t lose any caps. It’s also airplane-safe, whereas the original was notably not. The retractable model sports a rubberized grip too. Although the ink may be the same (and Pilot suggests that it is), it seems smoother on paper than its precursor. Both Dowdy and Price suggested to us in our most recent exchanges that the Precise V5 RT was worth considering.

In Wirecutter testing, a nearly equal number of our testers found the Precise V5 RT as comfortable to hold as the Jetstream. In comments, those staffers who chose the V5 RT as their One True Pen repeated two themes: darker, richer ink on the page, and a bit of resistance against the paper, which demands more attention and could result in neater handwriting. “

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The Pilot Precise had a better balance between resistance on the paper and ink flow,” wrote one tester. “

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The Pilot, despite the easier-flowing ink, resulted in less connectors between letters and less marking as I lifted my hand up off the page,” wrote another. “

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That caused my writing with the Pilot to look nicer, which was also enhanced by the heavier ink flow of the Pilot.”

Our testers found the Precise V5 RT to be the least smooth of the three: Only five of our 65-plus testers said it had the fewest skips in writing, and similarly few testers thought it had the least feathering or dried the fastest. That lines up with what the expert bloggers told us. But not everybody wants the smoothest writing with the fewest possible ink problems. For the cost, it’s worth buying a pack of V5 RT pens if you think there’s something about the Jetstream that isn’t quite clicking for you.

Also great: Uni-ball Signo 307

Also great

Uni-ball Signo 307

The best gel pen

The Signo 307 is a smooth, quick writing tool that lays down a thick line more reliably than other popular gel pens.

Buying Options

*At the time of publishing, the price was $0.

The Uni-ball Signo 307 produces a thick line of dark ink, gliding smoothly and rarely skipping. Some of our testers preferred the 307’s thicker, more textured grip compared with that of the Jetstream or the Precise V5 RT. If you write quickly but tend not to smudge your letters, or if you simply prefer the look of even thicker lines than the Jetstream or Precise V5 RT can provide, the Signo 307 is good at what it does. As with the Precise V5 RT, however, the 307’s ink feathers, ghosts through pages, and can look more inconsistent on a page than the Jetstream’s writing.

Brad Dowdy of The Pen Addict told us for this update that the Signo 307, an improvement over the previously dismissed Signo 207, is “

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the best gel ink pen off the shelf performance-wise.” Skipping—an issue with the 207—is much improved in the 307, Dowdy writes, and OfficeSupplyGeek’s Brian Greene agrees. The 307 doesn’t skip less than the Jetstream, but it does now present an acceptable trade-off for the fluidity of writing.

Our testers gave the Signo 307 high marks for smoothness and low-pressure writing. “

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The competition drags across the page, where the Uni-ball signo 307 glides,” wrote one tester. “

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I have a shaky hand, and I use a lot of pressure when I write or my handwriting is so illegible. The Signo was the only pen for me that felt consistently comfortable for how I write,” wrote another. “

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My go-to pen is the Pilot G2; the Uni-ball Signo feels the closest to it,” another tester wrote, echoing a common refrain among both professional and owner reviews. The 307 also got the most votes among Wirecutter testers for its looks, beating the Jetstream and the Precise V5 RT.

One area where the Signo 307 falls short of its predecessor is in the availability of colors. Right now the 307 has blue, black, and red inks, whereas the 207 enjoyed a much wider array. The ink, like that of the Jetstream, is Super Ink, so it’s waterproof, tamper resistant, and capable of working on glossy paper.

A pen-type primer

Currently you can find three types of non-fountain ink pens that you can get on the cheap: ballpoint, rollerball, and gel pens. The three are closely related, but generally speaking, each has some advantages and disadvantages over the others. (There are affordable fountain pens, such as the awesome Platinum Preppy line, but they’re harder to find in the US.)

Ballpoint technology, invented in the 1800s, is the grandaddy of most modern pens. It was designed to be a better and easier way of dispensing ink—embedded in the point of a pen, a rolling ball transfers the ink to the page. Ballpoints use oil-based ink solutions, which dry quickly on the page, don’t bleed through much, and don’t dry out easily in the pen itself. But ballpoints tend not to be especially smooth to write with.

Rollerballs use water-based ink, which provides smoother, finer lines. They’re available in a wider array of colors and require less pressure to use. But their inks tend to dry slowly on the page, can easily smudge and bleed, and can dry out inside the pen.

Gel pens are technically a rollerball variant, but they use a much thicker, more viscous ink. So they don’t bleed as much as most rollerball models but still produce smooth, fine, and vivid lines. In general, however, they still have smudging and drying problems, and the ink runs thick: A 0.5 mm gel pen puts down a wider line than 0.5 mm pens of other types.

Better ink technology has mitigated a lot of these downsides, but that’s the general idea.

The competition

Some pens well-reviewed by experts or recommended by readers were not available for around $5 or less, or well-stocked at widely distributed office-supply stores and at online merchants. Stock and availability problems eliminated the Zebra G-301, for example.

We also skipped a number of pens that were well-regarded among reviewers because none of the experts recommended them over our picks, either in our interviews or on their blogs. Those pens included the Pentel EnerGel, Pentel Slicci, Pentel Vicuña (although we did order and test one expensive Vicuña model), Pilot Acroball, Pilot Dr. Grip, Pilot Hi-Tec-C and G-Tec C, Zebra Sarasa, and Zebra Surari.

The Pilot G2 is a massively popular gel pen, a best seller in many stores and online. It is what many people think of when they think of buying a “

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nice” pen for a particular task. But once you use any one of our picks, or the Signo 307 in particular, you notice that the G2 skips, feathers, and blobs more than other pens and takes a notably long time to dry. OfficeSupplyGeek and No Pen Intended have photo evidence of how the G2 performs. Luckily, one Wirecutter tester vouches for our suggested alternative: “

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My go-to pen is the Pilot G2; the Uni-ball Signo (307) feels the closest to it.”

The Sharpie Pen has many outspoken fans, especially for its refillable stainless steel and grip variants. We tested it for this update. The Sharpie Pen is technically a marker with a very fine tip, so it feels different from nearly any other pen. That feeling was divisive for our testers. Both my wife and a co-worker used the same phrase to describe the feel on high-quality paper: “

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Nails on a chalkboard.” My father-in-law and another co-worker preferred the Sharpie Pen to all three of our picks. You should try one if you have a chance, and see how you like the feel—but it’s not the best for most people.

Schneider pens, including the Slider Rave XB and Slider Basic, are smoother and faster-drying than a typical cheap office pen. But they’re German-made, and although they’re available on Amazon, the price and availability of different colors or models vary. On top of that, the Basic version is thin at its grip and less comfortable than our picks.

The Bic Atlantis (available in 0.7 mm and 1.0 mm tips) was recommended to us by commenters and a couple of pen enthusiasts at a co-working space as a good-enough upgrade from traditional Bic sticks and crystal pens. In our experience, the Atlantis blobbed and feathered more than any of our picks, although it was smooth. It’s better than the cheapest pens at the store, but the Precise V5 RT is likely to be on the same shelf and is better still.

Office Depot sells an exclusive line of pens under the TUL brand, in rollerball, gel pen, and ballpoint. Their exclusivity makes them less interesting as a generally recommended pen (and you can buy all our other picks at Office Depot). Reviewers ding the gel pen for a long drying time and recommend the line for stocking up an office more than buying a nice pen for yourself.

We considered the very wide array of Uni-ball pens for this updated guide, and we tried the Vision Elite with BLX inks. For everyday writing, this pen is very, very wet, and will likely leave the side of your pinkie or palm shellacked with dark ink. For anyone who wants a bold, colorful pen for sketches or illustrations, the color selection and the dark, thick ink may appeal.

The labeling of pens as “

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fine” or “

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medium” or the like is unreliable for comparing pen tips. Always check the tip width (usually between 0.25 mm and 1.0 mm) and compare it against a similar type of pen (ballpoint, gel, or rollerball) whose ink lines you know and like.

Brad Dowdy, Top 5 Pens, The Pen Addict, September 25, 2018

Brian Greene, Uni-ball Jetstream BLX .7mm Retractable, OfficeSupplyGeek, April 29, 2013

Brad Dowdy, Review: Uni-Ball Jetstream 1.0mm Blue, The Pen Addict, October 7, 2009

Brian Greene, Pilot Precise V5 RT Liquid Ink Pen Review, OfficeSupplyGeek, March 8, 2010

Elizabeth Price, Pilot Precise V5 RT, No Pen Intended, October 4, 2011

Brad Dowdy, Review: Pilot Precise V5 RT 0.5 Click, The Pen Addict, December 30, 2007

Brad Dowdy, Uni-ball Signo 307 Gel Ink Pen Review, The Pen Addict, July 6, 2015

Brian Greene, Uniball Signo 307, OfficeSupplyGeek, April 29, 2015

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