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Are you a black or blue pen person? (1 Viewer)

Are you a black or blue pen person?


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since I'm 50/50 on this pen preference (I use both), here's a little experiment:
guess what these colours are
(grayscaled and see which one is better seen)

will show the answers later
 

dan964

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black or blue (generally former) in exams for year 11 and year 12
except I tended to underline things in purple/pink

in other years, I wrote with whatever pen worked best.
once I wrote in blue and black in the same exam, switching every time my hand was sore or lost train of thought.
 

anomalousdecay

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since I'm 50/50 on this pen preference (I use both), here's a little experiment:
guess what these colours are
(grayscaled and see which one is better seen)

will show the answers later
1. Blue
2. Purple
3. Green
4. Black
5. Red

Used a VIBGYOR model. Darkest to Brightest: 4,2,1,3,5.

Inb4completelywrong
 

DepressedPenguino

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5. GRREEEN
4. BLACK
3. RED
2. BLUE
1. BLACK (you used black colour for this again)

Please don't tell me they are all blue or black :3 or all the same colour :)
 

Crobat

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ew wtf it's 2015 and you're all like 16+

who still uses a blue pen geez show some sophistication

closest i ever go to blue is that blue-black colour
 

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I always use black no matter what. Unless it's something where I need to highlight or underline or I've added a new paragraph last minute then I'll use blue
 

tantantan

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they say your brain luurrves colour so idk, I started doing that for studying and i really do like writing with thin scented gel pens...
Either way my favourite pen changes all the time. i was using a rly thin blue to finish up my maths homework yesterday
 

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I used to use black mostly throughout my junior years but I changed to blue because all of my friends used blue pens lol
 

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Black fine liner pens are amazing for good handwriting. I bought like 10 packs when I was overseas because it was so cheap there.
 

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May I add the views of an HSC marker - please use black in exams that are going to be scanned as blue often isn't picked up all that clearly and hence the scripts become difficult, if not impossible, to read. As markers are being paid 'by the script' when marking 'online' and not by the number of hours they worked they also won't all necessarily take the time and effort to mark your work - time costs money.
 

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