pencils

Many pencils cross the world and almost all in Europe are graded on the European system using a continuüm from “H” (for hardness) to “B” (for blackness), as well as “F” (for fine point). The standard writing printed pencils 
 are graded HB. According to Petroski this system might have been developed in the early 1900s by Brookman, an English pencil maker. It used “B” for black and “H” for hard; a personalised pencils 
the grade for promotional pencils was described by a sequence or successive Hs or Bs such as BB and BBB for successively softer leads, and HH and HHH for successively harder ones

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