Pink Eraser Battle Royale! Review of Pink Pearl, Pink Carnation, Milan, Staples, Pen+Gear, All Art +

When most people think of a pencil eraser, what comes to mind in the familiar pink rectangular eraser with the beveled edges. This is the eraser many of us grew up with - they were standard issue in elementary schools across the USA.

Since I'm a pencil geek from way back, I know there are many other eraser options beyond the traditional pink block, but I still find a certain comfort in having a pink eraser in my pencil box. Maybe it's a little nostalgia, but maybe some pink erasers actually do a decent job in removing the graphite from the page.

Here I do a test using nine different pink erasers:

Pink Pearl by Paper Mate
Pink Carnation by Dixon
Staples pink eraser
Pen+Gear pink eraser sold through Wal Mart stores
Up & Up pink eraser sold through Target stores
All Art by General Pencil Company
Milan 430 eraser in pink (it's also made in white and green)
WOW Office Works pink eraser sold through Kroger stores
Big Pink by Charles Leonard

The erasers had the task of erasing the marks lefts on the paper from 12 different #2/HB pencils, which included:

Ticonderoga by Dixon
Oriole by Dixon
Pen+Gear sold through Wal Mart stores
Blackwing 602
Pacific by General Pencil Company
Ceres by Musgrave Pencil Company
Palomino Golden Bear
Harvest by Musgrave Pencil Company
Tradition by Staedtler
9800EW by Mitsubishi
Mirado by Paper Mate
USA Gold by Write Dudes

The results varied by eraser and by pencil, but it was clear that some pink erasers were more up to the task than others.