Some Blacks Are Blacker Than Others,

you may now be thinking of a number of posts we made some time ago,

in them we mention Vantablack, the blackest of blacks, you can visit the posts here, well it appears that a company has now according to the Guinness Book of Records, made the world’s blackest gel pen, the company is Japan’s Mitsubishi, the product the Uni-ball ONE series black gel pen is indeed the blackest in the world,

when writing on paper, it can reduce the penetration of the gel into paper fibres, making the colour look more saturated than other gel pens, apparently the Mitsubishi Pencil Co.Ltd. Reportedly teamed up with Ritsumeikan University to conduct a memory test using various black gel pens and learned that blacker characters were easier to remember,

“When we compared the memorization performance of handwritten characters with ballpoint pens of different shades, we found that characters written with Uni-ball One’s dark black gel had a higher correct answer rate and a higher recall rate than those written with general gel ink,” the Japanese company wrote in a press release, after receiving Record™ certification, an official certificate presentation ceremony was held on Monday, August 7, 2023, above, 

you can see the pen in action here, and I have to say the writing does look easier to read with the new black pen, next time I need a ball point pen, I will look out for this one.