4 colored pens, does this thing exist?

[Ethelios]

I was thinking about another pen companion, and realized I've never seen 4-color pens outside the red-blue-black-green ones.

I'll like to take notes without inking 4 separate pens, and these overlap with the fountain pen's current color, so hard pass. Funky inks are not the best option at the moment.

 

Is there such a thing out there? Maybe bright pastels? Different cartridges or refills?

Before a month wait from Aliexpress, I'd like to hear users' opinions in this place.

[torstar]

25 minutes ago, Ethelios said:

I was thinking about another pen companion, and realized I've never seen 4-color pens outside the red-blue-black-green ones.

I'll like to take notes without inking 4 separate pens, and these overlap with the fountain pen's current color, so hard pass. Funky inks are not the best option at the moment.

 

Is there such a thing out there? Maybe bright pastels? Different cartridges or refills?

Before a month wait from Aliexpress, I'd like to hear users' opinions in this place.

 

You mean this kind of thing (I always have one near)..... 

 

 

BIC only provides blue and black refills (apparently).  As BIC has an array of shiny and sparkly and "fun" colours, you might be able to get custom-made refills from them?

 

 

 

 

[Ethelios]

Yup, I saw that one, the thing I'm after should not have blue-green-red-black ink. There's a pastel line, purple-pink-light green or something, never seen one offline.

 

Felt pens should be easy to carry in any color, but they bleed and smudge like an ugly Sharpie on nearly every paper they touch. Pilot Parallel pens are good, but they take only a color per unit.

[torstar]

5 minutes ago, Ethelios said:

Yup, I saw that one, the thing I'm after should not have blue-green-red-black ink. There's a pastel line, purple-pink-light green or something, never seen one offline.

 

Felt pens should be easy to carry in any color, but they bleed and smudge like an ugly Sharpie on nearly every paper they touch. Pilot Parallel pens are good, but they take only a color per unit.

 

I see you are on top of it. Wanted to make sure what you meant, on here invoking the name of BIC may bring a firestorm 

 

Found it odd that BIC wouldn't sell red and green refills, I guess only made for each plastic pen produced?

 

Nice to talk about this useful tool in my life. 

 

With scissors and razor blades I have adapted refills to MAKE-IT-FIT for many projects, sometimes going a bit too far... 

 

[hari317]

Most multicolour pens use D1 refills. You may visit cult pens or any other suppliers website to see what ink colors are offered in D1. Then you can select the pen you like. Once the pen and refills have arrived you replace the stock refills with the coloured ones you purchased. HTH. 

[Ethelios]

16 minutes ago, torstar said:

 

I see you are on top of it. Wanted to make sure what you meant, on here invoking the name of BIC may bring a firestorm 

 

Found it odd that BIC wouldn't sell red and green refills, I guess only made for each plastic pen produced?

 

Nice to talk about this useful tool in my life. 

 

With scissors and razor blades I have adapted refills to MAKE-IT-FIT for many projects, sometimes going a bit too far... 

 

The Brand That Shall Not Be Named... Oops, I guess the grammar nazis could share some attitude with the talibans of the tines

 

6 minutes ago, hari317 said:

Most multicolour pens use D1 refills. You may vidit cult pens or any other suppliers website to see what ink Colors are offered only D1. Then you can select the pen you like. Once the pen abd refills have arrived you repkace the stock refills with the coloured ones you purchased. HTH. 

If no pen exists, time to some DIY then. JetPens carries Monteverde refills in 4 extra colors, worst case scenario BIC carries odd ballpoint colors.

[torstar]

20 minutes ago, Ethelios said:

The Brand That Shall Not Be Named... Oops, I guess the grammar nazis could share some attitude with the talibans of the tines

 

If no pen exists, time to some DIY then. JetPens carries Monteverde refills in 4 extra colors, worst case scenario BIC carries odd ballpoint colors.

 

 

There should be several recipes on other threads for mixing and matching refills and pen barrels.

 

Almost nothing is impossible....

 

 

[hari317]

Lamy 2000 Is a really nice 4 color ball pen which will take those Monteverde refills. 

[Ethelios]

I thought the second message was a joke, and now I'm staring at a new abbyss.

 

It seems that the easiest path is getting BIC ballpoints in pastel, Carrefour should carry them and refills too, so next trip for groceries doubles as the next pen quest no, really, didn't know about this thing.

[sansenri]

then you need a Carioca!

[flatline]

Paper Mate Inkjoy Quatro.

[como]

@sansenriThis thing looks like a carousel! 😀

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks sansenri!  I was just about to mention the 10 color pens (I had one when I was a kid, which I got for Christmas along with one of those 5 year diaries.  Didn't know they were still being made.  

But of course they're also ballpoints.... 

@Ethelios -- I have a friend who is a tech writer for an engineering firm in the Pacific Northwest.  She uses her fountain pens at work (five Levenger pens, different colors, and color-matches the ink).  She has a bad finger and fountain pens are just more comfortable for her to use than ballpoints.  The guys she works with thought it was "cute" that she'd be switching pens out for different notes at meetings -- until they realized that there was "method to her madness" and was using the different color inks to keep track of who was supposed to be working on what part of the project.  Then (being engineers ) they said "OH!  We see what you're doing!  We understand now!"

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[sansenri]

well, tough to do it with fountain pens!... (especially ten!)

I had one of these as a kid too, they are still being made, yes.

 

It does fit the multicolour and "besides red, blue, green, black" thing though...

[inkstainedruth]

Yes, it does.  And I really liked mine.  But of course I think I was seven at the time.  Also, some of the colors didn't write very well (I remember yellow in particular being problematic..).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Ethelios]

13 hours ago, sansenri said:

then you need a Carioca!

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First time seeing this, the stationery rabbit hole has no limits. Noting the Paper Mate option, looks sleek. Got some BICs in pastels, they had a sticker (now peeled) and now I can glue them together till they dry. Mission acomplished?

 

It's nice to hear they were cool chilhood pens, sounds like these gel ones that came in rainbow colors, some used to write, some would die on day one.

[torstar]

On 6/1/2021 at 6:28 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Yes, it does.  And I really liked mine.  But of course I think I was seven at the time.  Also, some of the colors didn't write very well (I remember yellow in particular being problematic..).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

One is too old for this pen between the ages of 8 and 50, just like going to the zoo.

[inkstainedruth]

I was NEVER too old to go to the zoo!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[lbrown2684]

Customizable multi pens are available, you pick an empty body and the colors you want to fill it with. Try jetpens.com 

[torstar]

On 6/3/2021 at 9:26 PM, inkstainedruth said:

I was NEVER too old to go to the zoo!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I was, between the years 1978 (Toronto) and 2000 (Little Rock) I didn't go...