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A pen is a handheld device used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing.[1] Additional types of specialized pens are used in specific types of applications and environments such as in artwork, electronics, digital scanning and spaceflight, and computing.
The following is a list of pen types, brands and/or manufacturing companies of those writing implements. Related items are listed as well.
Types
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- Ballpoint
- Counter
- Counterfeit banknote detection
- Decoder
- Demonstrator
- Digital
- Dip
- Flex nibs
- Flux
- Fountain
- Fudepen (or "brush pen")
- Gel
- Marker pen, also known as a felt-tip pen
- Qalam
- Quill
- Rastrum
- Reed pen
- Rollerball
- Ruling
- Skin pens
- Space Pen
- Technical pen
- Stylus (computing)
Inventors
editBrands
editBrands and products
Box of Perry & Co. 2301 nibs
A Stabilo Boss highlighter by Schwan-Stabilo
Staedtler technical pens
Wacom digital pen
A
B
C
- Camlin
- Caran d'Ache
- Carter's
- Cartier
- Cerruti
- Conway Stewart
- Copic
- Crayola
- Cretacolor
- Cross
- Curtis
- Classmate
D
- D. Leonardt & Co.
- Derwent Cumberland
- Displays2Go
- Dunhill
- Delta
- Doms
E
F
H
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Related topics
edit- Ballpoint pen artwork
- Birmingham pen trade
- Calligraphy
- Classmate Stationery
- Correction fluid
- Crayon
- Four Treasures of the Study
- Grease pencil
- Ink brush
- Ink eraser
- Inkstand
- Inkwell
- Inkstick
- Inkstone
- Invisible ink
- List of artistic media
- List of stationery topics
- List of terms about pen and ink
- List of pen names
- Noctograph
- Oil stick
- Paintbrush
- Pen spinning
- Pencil
- Charcoal pencil
- Graphite
- Mechanical pencil
- PenAgain
- Pen Museum
- Retipping
- Silverpoint
- Slate and stylus
- Stylus
- Writing implement
- Yatate
References
edit- ^ "Definition of PEN". www.merriam-webster.com. Archived from the original on 2022-09-26. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ Singh, Rahul. "Benefit of Using Pen". Trending Newswala. Rahul. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
External links
edit- The dictionary definition of pen at Wiktionary