A lime-green barrel with a coloured stripe running down it, printed Schneider and Xpress. The stripe, the grip, the tip and the disc inside the chrome clip are all the colour of the ink, so a black pen is black-flashed and a pink pen is pink-flashed. Six colours are stocked: black, blue, red, green, violet and pink.

That colour-matching is not decoration, it is how you find a pen. Anyone who marks work in colour — a teacher going through a stack of copies, a student colour-coding a syllabus, anyone keeping a planner — ends up with five near-identical pens in one pot. On a range where only the tip and a printed word differ, you test each one on the corner of a page. On this one the whole pen tells you.

It is a fineliner rather than a ball pen, which changes how it writes. A fibre tip lays a consistent dark line without needing pressure, so long writing sessions cost your hand less, and the line does not thin and thicken with the angle of the pen the way a ballpoint does. The trade is that a fineliner should be capped the moment you stop.

Schneider are a German writing brand and this is their everyday fine pen rather than a drawing pen — there is no line-width figure and no permanence claim printed on the barrel, so we quote neither. What it is built for is writing, marking, underlining and correcting, which is exactly what most people actually buy a coloured fine pen to do.

The chrome-topped clip is a small piece of engineering that earns its keep. It is sprung rather than moulded, so it goes over a thick notebook cover or a shirt pocket without splaying — the failure that ends most pen clips in a bag.

Rs. 945 for one pen. Tell us the colour you want on WhatsApp when you order. Cash on Delivery is available across Pakistan, and stock, your city and delivery charges are confirmed before dispatch.

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