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Blue pencil (editing)

Pencil colored points on opposite ends. Text on the pencil reads, "Swiss Made * BICOLOR * Caran d'Ache 999".
Red and blue checking pencil

A blue pencil, also known as a checking pencil, is a two-color pencil traditionally used by an editor to correct a written copy.[1] The blue end is typically Prussian blue, and the red end is typically a warm vermilion red.[1][2] They are most often half red and half blue, but some are 70% red and 30% blue.[3] An editor-in-chief would use a blue colored pencil to make proofreading marks and final notes on manuscripts before sending it to be typeset and published.[4][5] The pencils and their blue excisions became associated with the editing process and editorial oversight.[6][7]

Of course it takes skill to be a poet! But an editor? A pair of shears, a blue pencil, and a paste-pot!

— Alice Corbin Henderson[8]

Since the introduction of desktop publishing, editing is typically done on computer files and without literal blue pencils.[9][10][11] They continue to be used in the Japanese newspaper industry and elementary schools in parts of Europe.[1][12] A different type of non-photo blue pencil is used by some comics artists for different purposes.[13]

  1. ^ a b c "三菱鉛筆 赤青鉛筆" [Mitsubishi Red and Blue Pencils]. pen-info.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Red and Blue pencils from Berol México, Caran d'Ache, and Linex". Pencil Talk. 17 February 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lexikaliker-2019-p1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Krausman, Paul R. (2020). "A Brief History of Management Implications". The Journal of Wildlife Management. 84 (2): 199–200. ISSN 0022-541X. JSTOR 26886246. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  5. ^ Brandt, Deborah (2018). "2017 CCCC Exemplar Award Acceptance Speech: On the Job". College Composition and Communication. 70 (1): 126–128. ISSN 0010-096X. JSTOR 26772548.
  6. ^ "Blue Pencil". Merriam Webster. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Front Matter". The Journal of Education. 125 (1). 1942. ISSN 0022-0574. JSTOR 42847802.
  8. ^ Henderson, Alice Corbin (1916). "Of Editors and Poets". Poetry. 8 (6): 308. ISSN 0032-2032. JSTOR 20570927.
  9. ^ The 1976 word processor Electric Pencil could use a spell checker & grammar checker from Cornucopia Software called "Blue Pencil" because it was intended to mark up a document similar to a human editor.
  10. ^ Bergin, T.J. (October 2006). "The Origins of Word Processing Software for Personal Computers: 1976-1985". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 28 (4): 32–47. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2006.76.
  11. ^ Yousef, Mohammed. "What is Blue-Pencil Editing?". Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lexikaliker-2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference Dueben-2018 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Blue pencil (editing)

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