Have you noticed any coloring trends shared by Japanese manufacturers?
Yeah well⌠we have said exactly the same thing that we always say when we talk about the ISO topicâŚ
@pearsonified: - I wanted red for 0.5
@nimrodd: - Europe follows ISO, Japan does not.
Myself: - 0.9 should be red, Kelvin is there red .9?
@drifand: - Not a lot.
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Pentel did have a red P219, when they revised the colors in about 1992.
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And Iâll continue to say it until the past revises itself 
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Green for 0.4 is common, though Pilot went with yellow
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I agree, the lack of color adhesion to lead size is kind of frustrating.
Kind of interesting to see Jet Pens handling it. Theyâve got lead sizes locked into specific colors:
Iâve seen 0.5mm showing up for black, blue, green, and red colorways⌠in auctions and on some sites.
Btw, if you go to the Pilot.co.jp site, youâll find them showing lead size locked into specific colors as well:
It looks like some colorways have a range of lead sizes. Whatâs weird is⌠whereâs yellow? I have a yellow S10 in 0.3 mm.
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If I remember correctly, the S3 (0.3, 0.5), S5 (0.3, 0.5) and S10 (0.3) in yellow have been discontinued at the end of 2022.
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I wonder what the rationale was behind doing that very specific colorway. You can still get the S10 in 0.3 mm, in blue or black. Maybe it was a poor seller?
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On the PILOT US website, mechanical pencils subsection, the entire S series is gone. S3, S5, S10, S20, and Iâm assuming S30 was never there.
The PILOT Japan corporate website product pages show the S5 as absent⌠as expected. The S20 is still there. I know it was announced as discontinued, but apparently for outside the JDM.
What surprised me was to see the S30 isnât there in the list.
If you use the search mechanism, you can find the S30. There is still an entry that appears. But when you click on it? Itâs a dead end. No page. No info. Youâd figure theyâd show the normal product specs and then have a notice that it was discontinued.
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