List of pen types, brands and companies

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 of pens

Flux pen used for reworks

Crayola markers

Highlighters

Tip of a fine point marker

Quill pens and inks

Types

• Active
• 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
  • Highlighter
  • Mean Streak
  • Paint
  • Permanent
• Quill
• Rastrum
• Reed pen
  • Kalamos
  • Qalam
• Rollerball
• Ruling
• Skin pens
• Space Pen
• Technical pen
• Stylus (computing)

Inventors

• László Bíró (improvements ballpoint)
• Alfred Dunhill (improvements fountain pen)
• George Safford Parker (improvements fountain pen)
• Petrache Poenaru (improvements fountain pen)
• Walter A. Sheaffer (improvements fountain pen)
• Lewis Waterman (improvements fountain pen)
• Sidney Rosenthal (improvements markerpen - Magic Markers)

Brands

Contents

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

• See also
• References
• External links

Brands and products

Gillot 291 pens and holder

Colored Sharpie permanent maker

Box of Perry & Co. 2301 nibs

A Stabilo Boss highlighter by Schwan-Stabilo

Waterman for Air France's Concorde

Staedtler technical pens

Wacom digital pen

 

A

• AIHAO
• Anoto
• Aurora

B

• Ballograf
• Berol
• Borghini
• Bic

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

E

• Esselte
• Esterbrook
• Expo

F

• F. Weber
• Faber-Castell
• Flo-Master
• Frost & Adams

H

• Hero
• Herlitz
• Hi-Liter
• Hindustan Pencils
• Hunt

J

• Joseph Gillott's
• Josiah Mason

K

• Kaweco
• Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth

L

• Lamy
• Levenger Company
• Livescribe
• Luxor

M

• Macniven and Cameron
• Magic Marker
• Marsh
• Maped
• Monami
• Montblanc
• Montegrappa
• Muji

N

• Namiki

O

• Ohto
• OMAS
• Onoto pens

P

• Paper Mate
• Parker Pen Company
• Pelikan
• Pentel
• Perry & Co.
• Pilot
• Prismacolor

R

• Reeves and Sons
• Reynolds
• Rotring

S

• S. T. Dupont
• Sakura
• Sanford L.P.
• Sharpie
• Schwan-Stabilo
• Sheaffer
• Speedball
• Staedtler
• Swarovski

T

• Tiffany & Co.
• Tombow

U

• Uni-ball
• UV marker

V

• Visconti

W

• Wacom
• Waterman
• Winsor & Newton

X

• Xezo

Y

• Yard-O-Led

Z

• Zebra

Related topics

• 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