pencil hardness table

pencil hardness table

pencils, especially those used by artists, are marked on the European scale, from "H" (for hardness) to "B" (for blackness), also known as "F" (for fine point). The standard writing pencil is "HB" and the card reader filling pen is "2B". However, in order to produce different visual effects on paper, the pencil used by the artist varies widely. The range of a set of art pencils is from very hard light pencils to very soft dark pencils, usually the range from the hardest to the softest can be expressed as follows: