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KoKuyo Graphic Marker Sets

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$22.5 $45 In stock

Category: The Desktop

There's a certain magic in tools that defy categorization. Pasta, from Japanese stationery innovator Kokuyo, lives in that intriguing space between marker and pastel, offering creatives a medium that breaks quietly away from convention.

Each marker houses a water-soluble core that glides with unexpected smoothness across the page, allowing you to shift effortlessly between precise line work and gentle, pastel-like textures. The rectangular tip (4x7mm) responds intuitively to pressure and angle, while the minimal barrel design conceals a clever refill mechanism - just twist to advance the core to your preferred length.

Born from Kokuyo's materials innovation initiative, these markers reflect a deep understanding of how artists work. The pigments refuse to bleed through paper, colors layer and blend with surprising sophistication, and even the smallest details - like the color-indexed stickers included for organization - speak to the thoughtful engineering behind each component. Choose between the full spectrum of thirty colors, presented in an elegant paperboard case, or begin your journey with a carefully curated selection of ten essential hues, protected in a durable plastic case.

Part of our Japanese Minimalism and Writing Instruments collections.

Customer Reviews (4.6 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Carter G. ★★★★★

I’ve been sketching with these daily for two weeks and the pigment stays creamy without crumbling, which is rare for something that blurs the line between marker and pastel. The color payoff is rich enough that one pass covers my sketchbook paper, and they blend beautifully when I layer them while s

Miles T. ★★★★★

These markers sit on my desk and I keep picking them up just to doodle, the dual texture is genuinely fun to switch between. Blending two shades together gives a soft, chalky gradient that I haven't gotten from my usual pens.

Henry W. ★★★★★

These things glide on like a pastel but dry down with a marker's bite, which is exactly the weird hybrid I didn't know I needed for my sketchbook. The way they sit between two mediums makes layering feel almost effortless, and I've already burned through half a set on one project alone.