If it’s an oil based or solvent based paint pen, you might be shit outta luck. If you pick at it with your fingernail, does it chip? If it does chip a little bit, try a thin plastic guitar pick or something else with an edge but less likely to scrape up the original paint than your fingernail and try to pick at it a little more, start with the red dot location that will bother you the least if you mess it up. Acetone will ruin that thing, the panel paint will probably come off before the red paint and the red paint will smear onto the other white areas, it’ll be a hot mess. something like that is going to be tough because the original paint and screen print is old and probably thin. you might have to live with it or risk making it significantly worse.
basically anything that can remove the red, will have a potential to damage the rest. If it’s someone’s girlfriend’s nailpolish and it’s not too tightly bonded, you might be able to chip away at it with that guitar pick, but it’s possible the red will still leave a film underneath and it can rapidly go from progress to damaging the surface if you go too far in trying to remove it.
If you get it down to that point, where it’s just a red tint red over the white letters, switch to a firm toothbrush with a little bit of detergent soap and water, keep it contained to that area and see if you can improve it, if you can’t, you might just have to quit while you’re ahead.
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