nib examples

Does anyone know of a page that has writing samples of the different nibs
sizes for each brand of fountain pen? thanks.

I don't know of one that tries to differentiate brands, because it
would be very approximate and inaccurate. Anyway, you can go he
http://www.hochwertige-schreibgeraete.de/federbreiten.php?nav=3&catid=150

That will give you at least some idea for European and American pens.
Japanese pens tend to be about a size narrower - i.e. a Japanese medium
looks about like a European fine.

Hope this helps some.

"jeffnet" writes:

Does anyone know of a page that has writing samples of the different
nibs sizes for each brand of fountain pen? thanks.

I can not give exactly that kind of page. It is very common opinion that
European nibs are wider than American nibs and American nibs are wider
that Japanese or Chinese nibs. So, if you buy some European fountain pen
with medium nib, it writes as wide line as American broad nib. And if
you buy some American fountain pen with medium nib, it writes as widea
line as Japanese or Chinese broad nib. And so on.

But maybe these pages will help you a little bit:

http://www.richardspens.com/?page=re...nib_primer.htm

http://www.richardspens.com/?page=re...nib_beyond.htm

http://www.richardspens.com/?page=re...lex_italic.htm


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