What is the better pen colour to write with?

[mantis]

Crayons.

Do you prefer Crayolo crayons?

 

[Handsuper47]

Do you prefer Crayolo crayons?

Crayola is the only option for crayons.
Out of OP's choices I would use Black.

 

[GoTheSwannies]

I always use black, because most black pens look the same, so if you stop writing and continue later (with another pen) it'll look the same. However, there is a lot of variability with blue pens so if you come back with another blue pen there will be a noticeable difference. and that would shit me.

black

 

[Dagless]

No love for the old pencil?

Mechanical all the way.

 

[Gasometer]

 

[liam_13]

Blue (and white) > Black (and white)

I think blue looks neater, at least with my handwriting. Not a big deal these days though.

 

[Tulip]

I always seem to use black, probably because my favourite pen comes cheap in black but has to be bought in bulk in blue, but I don't mind either. My favourite colour to write with is actually green; I never used it for assignments when I was at school - but any personal writing I get done tends to be in green.

 

[MWPP]

Preference of those two - Blue Ink
What I use most - Black ink (forced to for work)
My favourite coloured pens- Purple!

 

[Caesar]

I mostly use black, because when I started work some photocopiers and fax machines were still a bit dodgy at reproducing blue ink. It's just habit now though. I tend to use blue when I am annotating a typed document.

There has probably been a study done to determine whether blue or black ink makes the reader happier.

 

[Marlowe]

I prefer black on a blank page and, because my handwriting is so atrocious, blue for filling out forms.

Overall, I prefer gold.

 

[Breva_]

I normally carry 1 black & 1 blue pen to work.
I do a lot of writing & I'll mix it up blue 1 page, black the next, I have no real preference.

 

[Natho]

Stick to the blue

 

[FootyJunkie]

Keeps everyone happy.

 

[Selective Retention]

I think blue looks neater, at least with my handwriting. Not a big deal these days though.

I remember in primary school, maybe grade 2, they made everyone get a pen license. People would have to use pencil until their handwriting was deemed neat enough for a pen, and then you would only be allowed to use a blue pen. My writing is always neater with a blue pen too, and I wonder if there is some latent pyschological factor due to that.

 

[Caesar]

I never got my pen licence. I just started using a pen when I moved into the next year group.

Thanks to all the typing I've done since leaving school my handwriting is now worse than it's ever been.

 

[Igloo]

I never got a pen license either. I just started using one in about grade 3.

 

[waldino]

i was once a blue boy....the the black slithered its way onto my paper. i havent looked back since

 

[PHX]

Black. A bold black pen, not a shitty Bic one.

 

[Affidavit]

Why so many racist comments?

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Black, blue,

 

[Yabba]

Black or blue, doesn't really matter, however at work I need to use a green pen far too much...

 

[GreyBudgie]

I never got a pen license either. I just started using one in about grade 3.

I also never got a pen License way back in 1973 , I still have not forgot that I blamed the Classroom we were in that year a “Musset Hut” cold as hell in a Tassie Winter.

 

[LANGFORDandSON]

Green is underrated.

 

[MarcusP2]

I never got a pen license either. I just started using one in about grade 3.

I just changed schools and used a pen there. As a left hander I was doomed to terrible writing anyway.

 

[Shell]

I just changed schools and used a pen there. As a left hander I was doomed to terrible writing anyway.

I'm a lefty too. I have nice hand writing, but smudging the ink can be annoying.

I have shite as hand writing on a white board tho.