Brand Colors
Pentel Logo
Download a clean vector or high-resolution PNG, or copy the SVG source directly into your project.
Logo summary
About the Pentel Logo Logo
Introduction
The Pentel logo is a chunky red wordmark — the signature of Japan’s quiet giant of pens, pencils and the Sign Pen. Download the Pentel logo in SVG and PNG formats below, free at VectorDose.
Brand Overview
Pentel is a Japanese manufacturer of writing instruments founded in Tokyo in 1946 by Yukio Horie. It invented the fibre-tip Sign Pen in 1963 — famously used to sign NASA documents — and its EnerGel and P200 series remain professional favourites worldwide.
- Founded: 1946, Tokyo, Japan
- Founder: Yukio Horie
- Industry: Writing instruments
- Owner: Pentel Co., Ltd.
- Website: pentel.com
History of the Pentel Logo
The name fuses ‘pen’ and ‘tel’ (from tell — to communicate, in some accounts ‘painting’ + ‘tell’), and the logo has long been a single-weight, rounded red wordmark: no symbol, no strapline, drawn with the same confidence as the fibre-tip line it launched in the 1960s.
Meaning of the Pentel Logo
- The rounded letters: soft, even forms echo the smooth lay-down of Pentel’s fibre and gel tips.
- The single red: a warm vermilion red — closer to a Japanese hanko stamp than a corporate colour.
- The missing symbol: Pentel lets the wordmark alone carry the brand, a restraint typical of post-war Japanese industry.
Pentel Logo Colors
| Color | Hex | RGB |
|---|---|---|
| Pentel Red | #ED1D24 | 237, 29, 36 |
Conclusion
Pentel’s logo is a stamp of reliability: one red word, set like the mark its pens leave on paper.
Download the Pentel logo in SVG and transparent PNG formats, free at VectorDose.
