Uni-ball Color Pencil Lead - 0.5 mm - Orange

amazing orange lead for sketching. I use it on my moleskine sketchbook and it looks amazing. a nice bold orange color. I highly recommend this lead!

It broke constantly when used in my Pentel Sharp Kerry 0.5 MP. A waste of $3.

This lead is very prominent and dark; great for notes and other things that require dark lines of orange.

For any artist wanting precision out there, this is the equivalent mechanical pencil version of Col-Erase non-photo blue pencil. It's very erasable and it’s a light baby blue color. I totally stocked up on these because I use it a lot for my under drawings. I wouldn't say these leads are easily breakable. It seems to be somewhat in the middle. If I had to give it a scale of 1-10 in breakability, I'd say 7. It’s strong enough to put some pressure on it without it breaking, but breakable enough for those who really put a lot of unconscious force into drawing or writing.

Very nice lead for my purposes; I use it for rough work before inking, because scanners don't pick up this shade of blue when scanning in black & white. It fades over time if exposed to sunlight (see the article on Dave's Mechanical Pencil blog), but this is okay if you work quickly or don't expose it to too much light. It could even be an advantage if you don't want the lines to stay. It's also very easily erasable.