I may have finally found a Sharpie pen that I can use on a daily basis. I was a Target today looking for new highlighters and I came across this pen.

I’ve always been a fan of Sharpie going back to my days working in warehouses. It was my go to pen and I remember asking someone for a marker, and they said, “Do you mean a Sharpie?” I didn’t know at the time that Sharpie reached the level of Kleenex.

Over the years, I’ve tried out several Sharpie pens for daily use. While I’ve liked them, the tips were never sturdy enough for me. I tend to press down very hard when I write.

Currently, my favorite daily pen is the Paper Mate Ink Joy gel 0.7 pen. Yes, there are better pens out there, but these are easy to pick up at Target, feel good in the hand, has a clip so I can slip it into the top of my Leuchtturm 1917 journal band and overall, it has a good weight to it.

I will try it out over the next week to see if I still like it. The tip seems sturdy enough. I tend to like a larger diameter point for daily writing, but the ink flow seems fast enough.

My only criticism so far is that is that it is tapered after the cap comes off. For me, I like the pen to be the same diameter all they way through. One of the reasons why I like the Paper Mate mentioned above so much. I tend to grip too hard and my hand gets tired on skinnier pens.