I was scribbling on my post-it and used my black, blue, green and red pens, then I started to think, why are pens designed with these four colors? I know they have created more colors now, but the majority of us have used only these four colors, so who-why? I could not find a clear answer, but I found this information.

- Marcel Bich secured the patent rights to the ballpoint pen, invented by Ladislao Biro and in 1950 gave the world the Bic pen. He chose the name Bic as a shorter variation of his own name because he feared that English speakers might mispronounce Bich "bitch."

- The most common versions of pens are the three-colour pen, which has black, blue, and red. Bic has made a four-colour pen for a long time that also has green ink.

- One unusual version of the 10-colour pen (never knew they existed) was sold during the early 90s at The Nature Company stores had scented ink.

Purgatorian Post #1275