Office Toy: The Silver Sharpie Pen

Many useful plastic, metal, and fabric objects are made in dark colors, often black.*

Silver Sharpie pens are perfect to label these things.

Dark-colored things we’ve labelled with a silver Sharpie include:

my husband’s black metal music stand (which looks like everyone else’s black metal music stand)
remotes
fabric padded laptop cases (whose is it? which device fits in it best?)
notebook spines
bird disambiguation books **

black notebook cover with the title bird book handwritten in silver ink

To my eye, the silver shows up best; but if you prefer gold or copper, those work too. Sadly, no Sharpie pens in rose-gold; which I would totally use in place of the silver. But maybe its moment is over.

set of three sharpie metallic ink pens, in silver, gold, and bronze

NOTES

* I remember the 80s vividly because they had colors back then. (Vivid ones!) Since 9-11, everything in the U.S. manufactured for adults that is not sold in millennial pink or rose-gold has been marketed as “tactical,” which means it is black. Which means a metallic Sharpie pen works great for writing on many objects these days.

** My bird disambiguation book is where I write and draw things I want to remember about birds. Such as: “Herons include egrets: Egrets are all herons, but not all herons are egrets.” (p. 20) There might be a limerick in there somewhere.