Customer Reviews

These are great leads for sketching and artist's guidelines. Although the mint blue (or soft blue) is by far the nicest of Uni-ball's colors, the green, red, orange, and blue are all great alternatives to the traditional Col-Erase erasable colored pencils widely used in animation and illustration for guidelines, initial sketches, and underpinning. I haven't tried the Rose Pink - I would guess that it's comparable, but I can't speak from experience with that one.

It should be noted, however, that these leads are not really designed for everyday writing and are not intended to be archival, so if you're looking or something that will be permanent under bright sunlight, this may not be your best option.

But, for a great many purposes, these leads are fantastic for those of us who prefer mechanical pencils to wooden ones for some tasks. These are are more erasable than the Pentel colored leads and come in more colors. They are on-par with the Sanford Col-Erase wooden colored pencils in terms of both erasability and feel, putting them far ahead of any other colored mechanical pencil leads I have tried to date.