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<\/a>2 pencils with pencil grades of HB.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
<\/a>If you ever wondered what the HB or 2H labels on your pencil mean. These are the indicators of the pencil grade. The following diagram summarizes the whole thing, which I will explain next:-<\/div>\n
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Pencil Grades vary from soft and easily to smear lead to soft and more black ones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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- The H stands for “Hard” and B stands for “Black”<\/span><\/li>\n
- The F in the middle stands for “Fine” or “Firm”, and it can be sharpened easily to to make a finer tip, It is between the H & HB. this kind of pencils is good for writing.<\/span><\/li>\n
- The harder the pencils is(the more H grade is has) the easier for it to smudge, which is often exploited to make shading effects and so.<\/span><\/li>\n
- And as the <\/span>Pencil Wikipedia article<\/a> states:- Pencils brands like\u00a0Koh-i-noor<\/a><\/span>\u00a0offers twenty pencil grades from 10H to 8B for its 1500 series;<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Mitsubishi Pencil<\/span><\/a>\u00a0offers twenty-two pencil grades from 10H to 10B for its Hi-uni range;<\/span>\u00a0Derwent<\/a> produces twenty pencil grades from 9H to 9B for its graphic pencils<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Staedtler\u00a0<\/span>produces sixteen from 6H to 8B for its Mars Lumograph pencils.<\/span><\/li>\n
- There are other grading scales used in other countries, and they mostly grade pencils the same way(by hard or black). In truth, there is no real worldwide standard for pencils, and as stated above, many pencils manufactures have their own grading scales(thanks again Wikipedia).<\/li>\n
- HB is the standard school used in the US.<\/li>\n
- Because the B pencils are softer, they need to be sharpened more than the H pencils.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
- The F in the middle stands for “Fine” or “Firm”, and it can be sharpened easily to to make a finer tip, It is between the H & HB. this kind of pencils is good for writing.<\/span><\/li>\n