Polychromos is Faber-Castell's professional colour pencil, and the green tin is stamped with the claim the range is built on: Finest Artists' Quality, Made in Germany. It is the set serious coloured-pencil artists work towards, and the reason is the binder rather than the pigment alone.

These are oil-based, not wax-based. In practice that changes how the pencil behaves under sustained work. There is no wax bloom, the milky haze that creeps over a heavily layered wax drawing after a few weeks. Layers stay clean and keep accepting more colour instead of clogging, the point stays sharp for longer without crumbling, and the surface does not smear under a resting hand. For work you intend to keep or sell, that stability is the whole argument.

Tins run from twelve up to one hundred and twenty. Twelve and twenty-four are entry points for testing the range against your existing pencils. Thirty-six and sixty are the practical working sets. The one hundred and twenty holds the complete range in a tin of six fitted compartments with a further row beneath, which removes almost all colour mixing from the process, you simply pick the shade you need.

Every barrel is printed "Germany, Polychromos" with its colour number, so a pencil is easy to reorder singly once a favourite runs down. Safencia lists Polychromos tins from Rs. 7,015 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan, and WhatsApp confirms stock, your city and delivery charges before dispatch.

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