If you are looking for a beautiful pen to compliment your Moleskine notebooks or planners, check these out. Moleskine’s new roller pens are designed specifically for use with Moleskine paper and the design is great, too. The unique clip is designed to be slid onto your notebook cover from the side or top, even when the notebook is closed. The low profile and flat design prevents roll and helps keep it in place.
The unique design of the clip enables you to slide the pen on from both the side and top of the notebook. It stays firmly attached to the pen to keep your pen secure.
I was a bit skeptical about the comfort of these pens when I realized that the shape is rectangular rather than round, but after using one for a while, I can confirm that it is comfortable. The rectangular shape stays put in my hand better than a round barreled pen which keeps my grip relaxed. Round barreled pens tend to creep on me, which encourages me to grip too tightly.
The ink scribes a smooth, even line with no feathering or bleedthrough.
The ink is smooth and dries quickly. So far, I have had great success using it with the paper in my Moleskine journals and even the thinner paper in the planners, no bleedthrough or feathering. The gel ink is nice and black, reminding me a little bit of a rollerball line.
Colorful stickers are included with both pens and can be used to customize your pen or indicate ink color.
The pen clip attaches firmly and can be slid onto your notebook from the top or side. It works best with Moleskine’s hard cover journals since the cover thickness matches the notch in the cap. You can use it with the soft cover notebooks but you will need to clip onto both paper and cover since the soft cover is too thin to hold the pen in place.
The matte-black, abs plastic finish makes for a sleek pen that is very light weight.
There are two finishes to choose from, satin steel and matte-black, abs plastic. The satin steel pen is all metal construction and is substantially heavier than its black sibling. As a premium product, it comes packaged in a Moleskine style gift box and retails for $50. The matte black pen is extremely lightweight and comes packaged in standard hang-tag packaging and retails for $15.
Both pens are refillable using Moleskine gel refills. To refill, just unscrew the bottom of the pen, remove the old refil and replace it.
Both pens are refillable using Moleskine gel refills and are available in .5 and .7 point sizes and Black, Brilliant Blue, Bright Green, Bright Red, Dark Brown, and Deep Violet ink colors.
Too bad the paper is so unreliable for fountain pens and other standard writing implements that they have to start selling their own pens to write on it.
It would be nice if Moleskine would upgrade their paper, but there are plenty of alternatives out there that have paper that works beautifully with fountain pens such as Rhodia Webnotebooks, Leuchtturm and Cartesio. Yes, Moleskine paper is finicky but there are those who use fountain pens exclusively in their Moleskine notebooks without problems and some who have issues with the paper but don’t care.
Regardless, the Moleskine pens are beautiful and can be used with other notebooks, too, and the flat design keeps your pen from rolling away. One of my customers tells me that they can be filled with a Parker refill, but I haven’t actually confirmed this.
I have yet to see this anywhere in a brick & mortar store. I’d like to be interested in getting one (for a friend) but I don’t want to disappoint them either..
Hi Steven,
I would recommend checking with a college campus bookstore if you have one close by. You can also check Moleskine.com to find a retailer in your area who carries the Moleskine line. I hope this helps.
Cynthia
lol We have several colleges here, even the snootiest of colleges don’t carry a pen like that… Well I shouldn’t really say snootiest, I mean more like “prestige” colleges lol!
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I just got one and love it! I liked your review, but have one add-on:
Not only does the clip attach to the top of the moleskine, but it can actually clip on from the side of the pen to the side I the notebook! It’s a great option because it keeps the pen from poking up above the notebook; it keeps it flush.
Cheerio
The pens and cartridges used to be great until aout two years ago. Now they are low quality pieces of crap.The cartrdges won’t even fit in the pens they are supposedly designed for. Stay away until Moleskine shows some sense of customer service and fixes this.