A slim marker with a metal collar behind a fine bullet nib. The gold and silver pens are black-bodied with a metallic label reading WorkPal Metallic Marker; the white one is a white barrel printed Paint Marker with MARKS ON MOST SURFACES along it. The nib and cap on each are the colour of the ink, so the pen tells you what it holds.

Rs. 250 makes this the cheapest way to get a metallic line onto something that is not paper, and gold and silver are the two colours people actually need for that. Our photographs show a gold sample stroke written across white — the letters have the flat metallic sheen of paint rather than the flat brown of a dye pen trying to imitate it.

The fine tip is the argument for owning this alongside a broader marker. A bullet nib this size writes a name, a date, a serial number or a small message rather than a heading — the label on a gift box, the year on the base of a pot, initials on a phone case, a border of dots around a card, a signature along the edge of a canvas.

One thing this page will not do is quote what the ink is made of. The small print that would say so runs around the barrel and is not legible in the photographs we have, so we describe what is printed clearly — the brand, the range names, and the marks-on-most-surfaces line — and leave the rest to the owner to confirm on WhatsApp if it matters to your job.

It sits at the entry point of a small range on this site. The Sakura Pen-touch Calligrapher does the same metallic trick at Rs. 560 with a chisel nib built for lettering; the Uni PX-20 does it at Rs. 360 with a medium bullet and an oil base. This one is the small, cheap one to keep in a drawer for the jobs that arrive without warning.

Rs. 250, in gold, silver or white. Shake it with the cap on and press the nib down on scrap until the colour comes through before the first mark. Tell us the colour on WhatsApp, and Cash on Delivery is available across Pakistan.

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