Tombow MONO Graph Lite Ballpoint Pen — 0.5mm Needle Tip, Black Ink

$3.29

Everyone needs that one pen you can clip to a notebook, hand to a stranger, lose for a week and find again under the platen. This is that pen, and it happens to be very good.

The MONO Graph Lite pairs a 0.5mm high-precision needle tip with ultra-low-viscosity oil-based ink, which is the technical way of saying it moves like a gel pen and behaves like a ballpoint — smooth, no skipping, and no wet line waiting to smear across the side of your hand. The needle tip is slim and exposed, so you can see exactly where the line is going. That makes it a good pen for margins, for corrections written between typed lines, for addressing an envelope, and for filling out a form on a clipboard in bad light.

The grip is a densely textured rubber that holds without going tacky. The tip retracts, so there is no cap to lose, and the pen refills, so it does not have to be disposable.

The barrel wears the MONO livery — the blue, white and black stripe that has been on Tombow’s erasers since 1969 and is very likely the most recognized stationery design in Japan.

•       0.5mm high-precision needle tip

•       Ultra-low viscosity oil-based ink — gel-like glide, ballpoint reliability

•       Textured grip — firm hold without stickiness

•       Retractable tip; no cap to lose

•       Refillable

•       Blue, white and black striped MONO barrel

•       Writes in black

Everyone needs that one pen you can clip to a notebook, hand to a stranger, lose for a week and find again under the platen. This is that pen, and it happens to be very good.

The MONO Graph Lite pairs a 0.5mm high-precision needle tip with ultra-low-viscosity oil-based ink, which is the technical way of saying it moves like a gel pen and behaves like a ballpoint — smooth, no skipping, and no wet line waiting to smear across the side of your hand. The needle tip is slim and exposed, so you can see exactly where the line is going. That makes it a good pen for margins, for corrections written between typed lines, for addressing an envelope, and for filling out a form on a clipboard in bad light.

The grip is a densely textured rubber that holds without going tacky. The tip retracts, so there is no cap to lose, and the pen refills, so it does not have to be disposable.

The barrel wears the MONO livery — the blue, white and black stripe that has been on Tombow’s erasers since 1969 and is very likely the most recognized stationery design in Japan.

•       0.5mm high-precision needle tip

•       Ultra-low viscosity oil-based ink — gel-like glide, ballpoint reliability

•       Textured grip — firm hold without stickiness

•       Retractable tip; no cap to lose

•       Refillable

•       Blue, white and black striped MONO barrel

•       Writes in black