How To Pick The Perfect Pen

Choosing Your Tip Type

Ultrafine

Best for Architects, engineers and other “technical” writers. Too fine for everyday use.

Fine

Best for the type of writer who writes or prints very small. Or simply anyone who prefers a finer pen. Will not be suitable for signatures and large, fast, loopy, writing.

Medium Fine

The most Universal of all of Artisan Janelle’s Tips. This is best size of tip for a gift or for all purpose-everything. Can keep up with large signatures and still be legible when writing is quite small.

Medium & Medium-Bold

Best size for a Wedding Gift. The happy couple will find it easy to sign their names on the registry, and will be able to use it for place-names before the wedding and thank-you notes after the big day. Not recommended for the guest book… there are simply too many variables with 100+ people using the pen in a hurried and unsupervised way.

Bold

Best for those signing their name over and over and over. Smaller writing will not really be legible.

Variable

This is Artisan Janelle’s proprietary modification….. ! It almost deserves it’s own page! Basically, it’s the tip most recommended for artists and least recommended for journaling and letter writing. The variable tip produces an extremely bold line, an extremely fine line, and a fairly medium line, depending on which way you turn the pen.

Choosing a Handle

This is where the Artistry Happens!

The sky’s the limit!!!

Handles can be:

-plain -non-rolling- decorative – colour* swirling inside – colour* on outside – light- heavy – long – short – barrel grip – triangular grip … etc. etc. etc.

These are just some general descriptions you might use to describe a handle if you are placing a custom order.

Requesting Custom Pens

Just as you would not expect a painter to predict exactly what they might paint, it is difficult for Artisan Janelle to predict what she might make during the course of a glass-pen making session…. If you are placing a custom order, you can simply say “Decorative Clear Handle” or perhaps “Colour Handle with blue and white swirling inside” and she’ll do her best to make something you’ll love.

If you would like to request a custom pen, please complete the Custom Pen Request Form.

Prices are listed by feature on the request form.