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I bought these as test pens before I went ahead and bought the Zig 48 Double Tip pen set.
They are water based pigment ink, which is great. Acid-free, which is also a must. Archival and Lightfast as well. My previous set of pens from a different brand were not lightfast and I found out the hard way when after two months artwork began fading. They say these are Waterproof but that actually means Water-Resistant, which means that you can smear the ink with water, tea, saliva, the main bulk of the ink will stay in place but you can create a watercolor color look by doing this. I haven't gotten the pens to bleed through paper yet & while they won't bleed/bloom color into other wet colors next to them you can bled them together quite easily, even when one of the inks has dried. They will also pick up black ink from other pens of different brands so be careful about that.
Something that a previous reviewer mentioned was the misleading numbers on the box vs. the actual size of the pen tips. I will admit that is is confusing if you don't understand the system they used for this, and don't ask me why they did it this way, but the individual sets are numbered. These numbers do not tell you the size of the tips, they only tell you the order in which the sets were made, sorta organized by size, but not directly. This became very obvious when I looked at these initially on a different website that listed all of the sets side by side. Maybe the numbers mean something different in Japan, where these are made, but let me give you the actual numbers and how they relate to the sizes of the tips.
005 = 0.2 mm
01 = 0.25 mm
02 = 0.3 mm
03 = 0.35 mm
05 = 0.45 mm
08 = 0.65 mm
I couldn't find a reference for the 06 or 07 so those may or may not exist. On the package you'll find both numbers, the first number is bigger so I can see how someone might think that's the size of the tip that they are getting, but also near the first number is the second with the "mm" markings behind the number and that's the one that actually tells you what size of tips you're getting. However, if you look on the pens themselves the cap and at the bottom of the pen both list the first number which is not the size of the tip, my 0.3mm say 02 on them so that's really confusing also. I can't find anywhere on the actual pen themselves the "mm" size. :/
Moving on... The colors. The Pure Pink looks absolutely nothing like the color on the cap. The ink comes out the color on the cap for the Pure Violet while the ink that comes out of Pure Violet also looks nothing like its cap it is a dark purple color. The other colors are just about right. I'm not sure why they put in Pure Brown instead of Pure Orange, orange would have been much more useful to me. The colors are really my only issue otherwise I'd give them a 5 star. Other than that these are some of the best pens I've ever used in my artwork.
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