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BENU Daily Mate Creative Thursday Fountain Pen Review

BENU Daily Mate Creative Thursday Fountain Pen Review

(Jeff Abbott is a regular contributor at The Pen Addict. You can find more from Jeff online at Draft Evolution and Twitter.)

As if any of us needed more of an excuse to have a specific fountain pen for every day of the week, BENU has taken it upon themselves to make that personal decision an even more difficult one. And we love them for it.

The BENU Daily Mate is a collection of fountain pens that share the same physical design, but with a range of seven colorways — one for each day of the week — and they're all spectacular. Each of the colorway options is vibrant and energetic in their own way, and they're all paired with a great fountain pen shape.

BENU Daily Mate Creative Thursday Fountain Pen

After SO MUCH deliberation on which single pen to choose, I landed on Creative Thursday. This was a really difficult choice because I genuinely liked each of the seven options, and you never really know how a pen will look in person once you receive it. Luckily for me, BENU's photography did a great job of representing the true colors of the Creative Thursday pen. The mixture of vibrant purple and a swirl of dusty amber look great together, and then the glitter particles just accentuate the colors and bring it all together. It's such a pretty pen and I enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoy using it.

All of the color options use the same silver clip and nib, and they all have the same physical design. The pen is what I'd call "full size," though I can't point to a specification for that label. It's slightly longer and wider than a Lamy Safari, but very similar to the Opus 88 Demo and Nahvalur Nautilus pens. More specifically, the pen is 5.5 inches (14 cm) long and 0.70 inches (18 mm) in diameter at it's widest point. The grip is a nice size — just 10-11 mm in width — and has a gentle taper toward the nib with a nice lip at the end of the grip to keep your fingers from slipping onto the nib while writing.

BENU Daily Mate Creative Thursday Fountain Pen Barrel

Writing with the pen is effortless. It's balanced really well when unposted, and I can write with it for long periods without discomfort. The overall weight is low given the materials used (acrylic) and the modest #6 nib. After using the pen for a short while, it's easy to tell that BENU designed this pen to be a work horse. It excels at its job.

The nib on the pen is a #6 stainless steel Schmidt, and mine worked flawlessly out of the box. The fine tip on mine is true to size for a western nib, and it makes crisp lines while feeling smooth on the page. Since this is a ubiquitous nib, it would be trivial to swap it out for something else if you already have a favorite customized nib that you'd like to swap in for the fine, medium, or broad nib options that BENU provide.

The design of the pen uses a classic shape with almost squared off ends. Both ends of the pen have a slight convex shape that give the pen a softer look and provide plenty of space to showcase the gorgeous material. The cap of the pen is a simple shape with only the clip and the BENU logo on it. The body, though, has ten grooves that extend along the length of the pen body and add a nice, soft textured feel and provide plenty of additional surfaces for light to reflect from. When unposted, the grooves also serve to keep the pen from rolling away.

BENU Daily Mate Creative Thursday Fountain Pen Grip

The grip section of the pen is the only deviation in terms of materials. It's a single color, and it's fantastic. In the Creative Thursday colorway, the grip is a vibrant purple color that is slightly translucent and also has some reflective particles suspended in the material to add depth. It's a lovely pairing with the richer colors of the pen body and cap.

My only complaint with this pen is that there are so many threads for the cap to screw onto the body. It requires 5-6 full rotations to uncap or cap the pen! That's a lot, and it's certainly a bit unusual. Most pens only need 1.5 to 3 turns to work the cap. 5-6 just feels tedious.

BENU Daily Mate Creative Thursday Fountain Pen Comparison

The pen comes in a standard BENU cardboard box along with a cartridge converter already installed. Two thumbs up for that decision, as I don't need any more generic black or blue ink cartridges! The cartridge converter appears to be a standard Schmidt converter and works well.

BENU Daily Mate Creative Thursday Fountain Pen Cap

The BENU Daily Mate is $120 for any of the fine colorways. Seriously, the most dangerous part of this pen is that it's really difficult to only pick one. I'm really happy with the Creative Thursday option I got, and I'll practice some self control and avoid buying any more (for now). But if any of these colors speak to you, you can be sure that the pen won't disappoint once you get it in hand. For the price, it's difficult to find other fountain pens that offer this level of vibrant, unique material options.


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BENU Daily Mate Creative Thursday Fountain Pen Writing
Posted on June 25, 2025 and filed under Benu Pen, Fountain Pens, Pen Reviews.

Benu Pixie Fountain Pen Review

(Kimberly (she/her) took the express train down the fountain pen/stationery rabbit hole and doesn't want to be rescued. She can be found on Instagram [@allthehobbies][0] because there really are many, many hobbies!.)

When I heard that Benu Pens was coming out with a pocket pen, I was 100% sign me up, unless it’s too blingy/colorful, you know, “too much”, and even if it is, I probably still want it. When I saw pictures of the pens, I was surprised at how many of the colorful ones I was tempted by! It was so difficult to pick that I had to ask Instagram which one I should get at the Baltimore Pen Show (too many people said “all of them”, lol).

The Benu Pixie, as you can guess from the name, is a very small pen. It comes with a cartridge but it cannot fit a standard international converter.

After much deliberation, I ended up picking the Aurora Gold Pixie with a Medium nib and inked it up with Vinta Heritage Brown Pamana (one of my fave brown inks cuz of the subtle green sheen). It wrote with no issues and is a smooth writer. It’s my first Medium nib Benu (I have Euphoria’s in Fine and Broad) and it gave me a medium line, as I expected. Benu’s have a reputation for working well with shimmer but I haven’t yet tried it with such a small nib/feed (maybe next inking!), so your mileage may vary.

Benu Pixie, Aurora Gold, Medium, inked with Vinta Heritage Brown Pamana.

It’s really hard to tell how small the Pixie is, so I decided to compare it with one of the more popular pocket pens, the Kaweco Sport - I happened to have an AL Sport inked up, which is pretty much the same size as the plastic Sport. I am also using a Col-O-Ring card for scale.

Uncapped, you can see that the Pixie is quite a bit shorter than the Kaweco.

I unscrewed the barrel so you can see that a regular standard international cartridge fits in the Pixie. The AL Sport has the Kaweco foldable converter (which is pretty flippin’ awesome, btw). The foldable converter fits just fine in the Pixie. No pics because it’s not that interesting. 🙂

I wanted to check if the regular Kaweco mini piston converter would fit in the Pixie and you can see that this is how far down the piston would be, once you screwed the barrel back on. Needless to say, that’s not a lot of ink.

I suppose one could eyedropper it if you silicone-greased the nib threads and barrel threads, but I didn’t try that.

Unposted, the Pixie is barely usable for me, whereas I routinely use my Sports (and almost all other pens) unposted.

The Pixie can be posted (friction fit) and it is more comfortable to write with. The posted Kaweco feels too long by comparison, lol.

Capped pocket pens: Kaweco AL Sport, Benu Pixie, Schon Pocket 6, TWSBI Mini AL.

Uncapped - the Pixie and Schon are very similar in size, buth the former has a very small nib, while the Schon has a Jowo 6 nib.

Adding a couple “regular sized” pens to the mix - Platinum 3776 far left and Benu Euphoria (far right.)

Once you post the Pixie (as well as the other pocket pens), you can see that it is much more comparable in size to “regular” pens like the unposted 3776.

You can also refer to the Pocket Pen Roundup article to see how the Pixie might compare to other pocket pens not shown above.

The Pixie comes in EF-Broad nibs and is available in the following colorways: Aqua Glow, Aurora Gold, Emerald Sea, Honey Bronze, Icy Violet, Plum Cream, Stardust Pink, Twilight Lagoon, Coffee Brown, Royal Blue, and Smoky Black (the last 3 are the most “solid” colors available). MSRP ranges from $59-$72 (the sparkly, colorful ones cost more). As of this writing, Benu has come out with 3-pen Pixie sets, in different colors than the ones above, for $186. They are offered in 3 different sets and are only available on the Benu website.

A couple other Pixies (Royal Blue and Stardust Pink) headed to the Bossman for a giveaway! The Aurora Gold is MINE!

(Disclaimer: Thank you to Luxury Brands of America for providing the Benu Pixie in Royal Blue and Stardust Pink for giveaway. I got the Aurora Gold at the BWI pen show.)


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Posted on April 25, 2025 and filed under Benu Pen, Fountain Pens, Pen Reviews.