MONAMIPlus Pen 3000 Felt Tip Pens, Fine Point (0.4mm), Coloring/Drawing/Journaling, Assorted Colors, 24-Pack

These pens are lovely! They're very fine tip but have a lot of different line weights they can achieve. You can get super thin lines to thicker calligraphy lines. The ink dries the minute you put it on the paper, but can be activated with water, which can be kind of a cool watercolor effect. The pens are really cute and I love the packaging! Really clean and convenient, even comes with a swatch paper for you to use :) (mine got a little wet so the ink feathered a bit, oops)Overall, I think these pens have a great color selection and the nicest packaging! If you want small calligraphy pens then these are definitely a good buy. Perfect for writing or outlining drawings (after the ink or paint is put on first). I outlined the strawberry with these pens, though its a little hard to tell. But they work really nice for that! Would recommend :)

Updating to include the 60 color set in this review (since Amazon can't seem to figure out why any time you have more than one of a manufacturer's product line, you can only leave one review for one of the items).I recently bought the 60 color set in the round tin. Unlike other reviewers, I had no issues with delivery. The tin was shrink wrapped with plastic, and there is an additional thin cardboard sleeve (seen in picture) that is basically two circles, joined by strips, which slides over the container. I think those who had loose pens and crushed /opened containers, most likely got someone's returned product.I have added the color chart for these 60, where I have made a swatch of each pen next to the color chart that is shipped with them. As you can see, colors are a little different for most, but this is to be expected.This set of 60 with the white barrels is just as nice, maybe even nicer, than the sets with colored barrels in the flat cases. I am very glad I bought these when I saw them on sale. Will definitely buy again when needed.Original Review:These are reasonably priced and work fantastic for multiple uses. The only thing you need to be cautious about is that the nibs will "spit" a fine spray of ink if you use them at a 90% angle t o the paper or with a more textured paper and pressure. This is not a flaw, it is how the hard nibs react - any hard nib pen will do this.I love these so much I will be sad if they are no longer available in the future.

If you are like me, you were debating which set to get. Honestly the 36 pieces one is perfect for traveling and just at your desk. More than enough shades to mess around in. I have used them on 100gsm and Tomoe river paper. Had no issues with bleed through or smears. These have a slightly flimsy tip but firm as well. So you could use them to write normally with or a bit of brush lettering for small sizes.EDIT:I have ordered the 48 just recently. This set comes in two cases and separated by Cool and Warm colors. It also has a Monami strap to hold both cases together which was a nice surprise to get. Another neat thing was that inside one of the cases was a swatch sheet for all 48 colors that you fill in yourself. Wish that some of the other big packs of pens I had bought did this too. People complain that it is scratchy but it writes very smoothly and vibrant. Has no bleed through what so ever and contains a 0.4 mm tip.

As stated in the title - this pen set is attractive, well packaged and aesthetically pleasing. However, after testing all of the different pens on various types of paper I have come to two conclusions - 1) the color assortment is very strange and 2) these are great pens for writing / journaling / planning etc. but they would be terrible to try to color with due to the fineness of the tip as well as the low ink saturation. So a few details to mention - this set seems to lack many shades of green - there are a many blueish / reddish / orangeish / yellowish hues but for green it all seems to be "yellow green" or "blue green" (green is my favorite color so I think I would find this aspect more annoying than most). There are also 5+ pens that are so "neon" that they are unreadable on white paper - however - since they are ink pens and not gel they don't show up on dark papers either so I do not understand what the point of those colors is. You cant highlight with a point that fine and honestly I cannot think of any coloring application where you would want a SUPER neon SUPER unreadable yellow or orange. Overall the shopping and purchasing experience for this product was top notch - I am not sure how I feel about the pens - I think I would need to use them more to determine an accurate rating - that being said I really liked the way that they felt in my hand and they seem sturdy. I would purchase again from this seller for sure!