PIlot Metro Purple

It’s a Metro – cheap, solid, reliable. And purple leopard! What’s not to love? I have several of these lying about, but I like the purple one the best. It’s a good, solid pen, writes beautifully, has a good solid heft, and a range of very attractive finishes. What makes it remarkable, it the price point; under $20. This pen can hold its own against any number of much pricier pens. I picked this one up in LA, in a fine no less! (Fine nibs usually don’t suit me, but this one is smooth and wet enough for me, but still gives me the fine line I prefer for annotating in books (yes, I do that; I’m an academic!). Worth every penny and then some! My only quibble (and for about $15, it’s a small quibble) is that the finish on these is a little fragile; I had a sizable ding in the finish only a few weeks in, and I tend to baby my pens….