The three-sided barrel is the point of the Coloroid range. A triangular pencil settles naturally into the thumb, index and middle finger, which is the grip teachers spend the first two school years trying to build, and it will not roll off a sloped desk the way a round pencil does.

Both boxes carry the Triangular badge and the line "color your expressions" under the Coloroid name. The 12-colour box is printed in yellow with a boy playing football; the 24-colour box is blue with a surfing scene. Inside, the pencils sit in a card tray with the sharpened points all facing the same way.

Twelve colours cover ordinary homework colouring. Twenty-four adds the in-between shades a child starts asking for once they move past primary colours: two or three greens instead of one, a separate light and dark blue, plus pink, purple, grey and skin tones for drawing people.

Barrels are painted to match their own leads, which sounds like a small thing until a child is hunting for the right green in the middle of an assignment. Each pencil arrives sharpened, so the box can go straight into a bag on the first school morning.

Safencia lists the Oro Coloroid colour pencils at Rs. 255 for the 12-colour box and Rs. 550 for the 24-colour box, with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan. WhatsApp confirms stock, your city and delivery charges before dispatch.

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