Committed to creating high-quality art products
Tisoso builds one thing and tries to build it properly: an acrylic paint marker with a brush nib you can actually control and an ink feed you never have to think about.
Where the brand starts
Every art-supply category has a version of the same problem. The cheap option is unpredictable and the expensive option is bought one pen at a time. Acrylic markers are a particularly clear case: for years the choice was a saturated professional pen at a price that made a full palette unrealistic, or a bargain set that arrived dry, flooded on the first stroke, and splayed its nib within a week.
Tisoso exists in the space between those. The engineering priorities are narrow on purpose — the nib and the feed — because those two things account for almost every frustration people have with paint markers, and almost nothing else does.
The nib
A brush nib should change line width with the angle of your hand, not the force of it, and it should come back to a point after you have used it flat. That second part is what most brush markers fail at. A nib that splays and stays splayed turns every fill into a tax on the next detail line, which is why people end up buying two pens in the same colour.
The Tisoso nib is built to recover, and it covers roughly 1 mm to 8 mm across its working range. There is a full breakdown of how to use it in the line-width guide.
The ink
Tisoso markers are direct-liquid: the pigment sits as free liquid in a sealed reservoir instead of being absorbed into a compressed cotton core. Liquid ink is more saturated because nothing filters it, and more of it reaches the page instead of being stranded in fibre.
The cost of free liquid is that it needs managing, which is what the automatic ink control system does. A stack of separating baffles inside the grip meters the release, so the marker does not flood on the first stroke or starve halfway through a fill. It is the least visible part of the pen and the part you would notice fastest if it were missing.
The sets we build
Three sets — 18, 24 and 48 colours — and no plans for a 200-pen wall of near-duplicates. Beyond a certain point, extra shades stop adding capability and start adding decisions. Forty-eight is the point where you can shade light-to-dark inside a single hue without mixing, which is the thing that actually changes what you can draw.
The 24 and 48 sets ship in a zipped canvas bag with a carry strap, because a large set that lives loose in a drawer is a large set you stop using. You can see how the three compare on the comparison page.
Safety, plainly stated
The formula is water-based and low-odour, and it conforms to ASTM D-4236 and EN71 — the two standards worth looking for on anything a child is going to hold. Wet ink washes off skin and most hard surfaces with soap and water; once the pigment layer has cured it is water-resistant and holds its colour.
As with any art material, younger children should be supervised, and the packaging carries the age guidance for the specific set.
Where to find us
Tisoso sells through its official Amazon brand store. This site is where the technical detail, the colour range and the guides live; the store is where the current price and availability live. We deliberately do not publish prices here, because a stale number on a brand site is worse than no number at all.
