These high quality pencils look their part with a sleek finished wood barrel and dipped hatching lead color end. You’ll find no other pencil to surpass its overall quality and performance characteristics. Their highly pigmented lead yields brilliant colors that will blend to infinite variety of shades and tones. This lead is water and smudge resistant, slow wearing and extremely lightfast and may be used on papers, boards, plastics, wood, textiles and coated papers too!