Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017)

Insanity wrote: post #4

I associate it with these actually: https://hobbyklei.nl/1816-large_default/bic-potlood-gilbert-... Maybe a Belgian / Netherlands thing? Or perhaps just me :)

We did have yellow pens in Germany, but thinking back on it, the forest green of Faber-Castell [0] was the color I would associate with pencils the most.

[0] https://www.faber-castell.com/products/GraphitepencilCastell...

Re: Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017)

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Post by HarryHirsch » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 6:24 PM UTC

ThePadawan wrote: post #7

Insanity wrote: post #4

I associate it with these actually: https://hobbyklei.nl/1816-large_default/bic-potlood-gilbert-... Maybe a Belgian / Netherlands thing? Or perhaps just me :)

We did have yellow pens in Germany, but thinking back on it, the forest green of Faber-Castell [0] was the color I would associate with pencils the most. [0] https://www.faber-castell.com/products/GraphitepencilCastell...

Also blue. Staedler was blue, with a black top.

Re: Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017)

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Post by airstrike » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 6:29 PM UTC

In my mind, Faber-Castell will forever be the ultimate pencil. I think yellow pencils are a staple of American culture but in my mind pencils are green...

http://www.fabercastell.com/products/pencils/GraphitepencilC...

Re: Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017)

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Post by b5 » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 6:33 PM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #5

Almost all the pencils in my childhood were red. The manufacturer was Berol. Of course, my schools didn't necessarily buy the highest quality pencils for the children, and they probably all came from the same supplier. The high-quality ones, which a relative who was a draughtsman used, were dark green [1] [1] https://www.ebay.ie/itm/12-x-Berol-Venus-H-Fine-Quality-Writ...

Across the water in Scotland, the most common pencils in school were black and yellow striped -- the Staedtler Noris, back then made in Wales and stamped "Made in Great Britain". These were the ones the school provided and also the ones parents bought. Still a great pencil today, but no longer made in the UK.

High-quality ones, used by a couple of artists and a draughtsman my parents knew, were blue: Staedtler Mars Lumographs, again made then in the UK, but now only made in Germany. Still an even better pencil than the Noris.

I remember Berol "Handwriting" pens, red with a white nib that produced blue ink, but never liked them or used them much. Berol had colouring pencils sewn up when I was in school.