Re: National Pencil Day (30 March)

On 2024-04-03, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:

I enthusiastically recommend gel pens. Less force needed to write than with the
usual ballpoint, less messy than fountain pens.

Some thirty years ago, I think, when I was still writing a lot by
hand, I switched to rollerball pens and I have stuck with them
since.  Writing feels a lot more fluid with them than with traditional
ballpoints.  Fountain pens--the cartridge-based ones, I'm not THAT
old--were enforced in school, and as soon as the teachers stopped
caring, students switched en masse to different writing implements.

Wikipedia tells me that rollerballs come in two different types:
liquid ink pens and gel ink pens.  The latter match your recommendation,
I guess.  I think mine are of the liquid ink variety.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de