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As a compromise between pencil/ballpoint and true fountain pens, I've recently discovered that gel-based click-retractable pens have the easy inkflow of a fount
by blahedo 16y ago
As a compromise between pencil/ballpoint and true fountain pens, I've recently discovered that gel-based click-retractable pens have the easy inkflow of a fountain pen—hence permitting a much lighter touch on the page—but the convenience of a ballpoint. (Strictly speaking, they are ballpoints, I think, but without the solid ink that requires so much pressure in a typical ballpoint.)
- HedgeMage 16y agoMy most-used fountain pen is retractable. It's called the Namiki Vanishing Point. The Pilot Fermo and Pilot Decimo also retract. (Namiki and Pilot are different divisions of the same company.) Even a $100-$200 fountain pen is far more cost-effective than gel pens in the long run due to their longevity and how inexpensive bottled ink is. I actually kept track one year. I went through $418 in gel pens my first year of college. That's more than my four favorite pens and my entire ink collection combined, despite my penchant for exotic and limited edition inks. It would take me about five years to use up all these inks.