STAEDTLER 187 C6 Noris Colour Triangular Pencils – Assorted Colours (Pack of 6)

lovely pale shades.I didn’t read the reviews on these Staedtler pencils prior to buying and I now notice how many are poor reviews. So, I ordered my pencils and then dreaded them arriving thinking I’d made a mistake buying them. Well, I ordered and within 2 days they arrived. I opening the box I was disappointed the pencils weren’t in a plastic case like my other Staedtler products are but still, it’s a nice box and if I’d read the reviews I probably would of know! The pencils are a lovely wide range of colours and I tried each one so I could see for myself how easy they are to colour with and if like the reviews they were going to disappoint. The colour shades are really nice andI have no trouble colouring with them. They’re certainly not a disappointment to me! Beautiful shades and I can’t wait to get started with them!

A bit disappointingPurchased along with a colouring book for adult colouring during the lockdown. I had not built up any expectation of the product as a pencil is a pencil. Not having purchased this type of product since the children were young, I was a bit disappointed when I started to use them.I remember coloured pencil leads being soft and easy to colour/shade. Many of the pencils were difficult to get any colour from them without a lot of pressure and you have to angle the pencil sideways to obtain any colour – don’t be mistaking thinking colour comes from the pencil pointed end. The white coloured pencil is of no use at all as produces – and two more orangey coloured ones just leave faint scratchy lines when using. The pencils are very hard and difficult to shade or blend. Though 24 colours, some of them are very much the same in use, it’s like having duplicates in the box. There are no vibrant colours, I’d describe the colours as pale and if a colour of depth is required it takes some doing and at risk of scratching through your colouring page.Whilst the pencils do their job, I would have liked a softer pencil lead that I could have worked better with and had 24 defined colours. I’m not too sure how a child would use these with the amount of pressure required. On a positive, the pencils do not break even under immense pressure so likely they will last a long time and not require much sharpening.As there are two similar sets with different numbers, maybe I have just ordered the wrong ones for the purpose.For the price this pencil set is quite good, but for me I find them limiting.

Very nice coloursI really liked these colouring pencils. I don’t get the bad reviews…if you know how to colour then they work very well and create such lovely colouring. Good brand and very good price.

Rubbish pencils!I read the reviews before buying these and there was a lot of great one’s and a couple of not so great one’s so I thought that I’d just risk it, they are £4 so if they weren’t good then I wouldn’t use them well…these aren’t good & I won’t be using them from now on! I bought these because they were recommended to me with a colouring book that I had purchased and I thought these would be easy to use with it because why would they recommend them? These are so HARD to colour in with, you have to put a lot of pressure on the pencils so even get a colour out of it otherwise it’s very faded but when you do that the pencils seem like they are about to snap in half and I don’t feel like you could really blend with these and I did try – they just wouldn’t do it. I’ve ended up putting these in the bin.