Question #225

[weofodthignen]

When you can't type, do you prefer to use a ballpoint/biro, and if so, what colo(u)r? Or some other writing instrument?

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[weofodthignen]

Black biro/ballpoint, fine.

[dubhain]

At one time, I really liked felt-tip pens, but these days I'm liking the liquid gel pens. About an 0.7mm ball.

I still adore fountain pens, but...I don't use a pen enough, these days, to warrant the expense? The Pilot Varsity fountain pens used to be awesome, though, for a cheap fountain pen. No idea whether they're still made or not.

I always figured that, when I had a decent career, I'd buy a really good fountain pen. I was a professional writer for a few years. Never did buy one. Never have owned one. Go figure....

[siliconshaman]

The very few times I can't type I use a pencil... dyslexic, so I write with my hand kind of curled around [it's a thing, enough so it's kind of diagnostic for it] which of course means ink ends up smudging, even ballpoint or gel.

I generally avoid it..it hurts.

[arlie]

Ballpoint. Blue or black; I don't really care which. Extra colours for specific tasks; I use a 4-colour ballpoint pen for balancing my check book, since that makes annotations obvious. (The original entry might be blue or black.)

[weofodthignen]

I used to admire people who wrote a fine fountain pen hand, and I went through a ton of them in school and as an undergrad, graduating to cartridge pens when those came out, but I press down very hard and always managed to get ink on me, so ballpoints since then. I've noticed gels are available in fun colors, but they also tend to leak on me, or not to write, or to not be waterproof, so I only use them for fun.