Uni Arterase Colored Pencils are brightly pigmented, smooth, and erasable—an excellent combination for sketching and designing in color. It's easy to lay down big, saturated marks with the strong, fine point of an Arterase pencil, and it's equally easy to use the side of the wide lead for shading.

Better yet, unlike most colored pencils, these are erasable! In our studio tests, light marks could be erased cleanly and heavy marks left only a slight shadow after erasing. That's the best performance we've seen from any erasable colored pencils on the market. And, in comparison with other erasable colored pencils, Arterase are surprisingly soft and rich while other brands can be scratchy.

This is the Arterase Set of 12, packed in a metal tin and including a nicely balanced collection of twelve basic colors. Each set of Uni Arterase includes an Uni vinyl eraser with a reusable plastic case. We like the eraser case because it looks like a skyscraper.

Made in Japan.

About Mitsubishi Pencil Co., Ltd.:

Founded in the 19th century in Tokyo, Mitsubishi Pencil has been one of the world's leading pen and pencil manufacturers for generations. Well-known around the world for their Uni brand of pens and pencils, Mitsubishi continues to innovate and release new products, like POSCA paint markers and an ever-expanding lineup of writing pens.

Fun fact: "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds," and the name and three-diamond mark of Mitsubishi Pencil predates the better-known Mitsubishi Group by ten years. Despite sharing the same name and symbol, Mitsubishi Pencil is not related to any of the numerous other Mitsubishi companies in Japan.