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Sakura Micron Pen Widths

A bag of the Sakura Micron pens I was adapting for the HP 7475A plotter, before the generous donation of New Old Stock plotter pens arrived, come in a variety of useful widths:

Sakura Pens
Sakura Pens

This relentlessly organized doodle happened while reading some tech docs on the Comfy Couch:

Sakura Pen Width Examples
Sakura Pen Width Examples

The first two lines obviously belong in their own group, but, hey, it’s a doodle.

The two Uni-Ball Kuru Toga pencils, in 0.5 and 0.7 mm, have diamond-impregnated lead that’s supposed to be much more break-resistant than usual. I fear that they’ll land point-downward and wreck the rotating sleeve surrounding the lead, so I’ve managed zero drops so far. Even I hesitated at the 0.3 mm version.

They had me at “0.20 mm”

 

Comments

2 responses to “Sakura Micron Pen Widths”

  1. Pete Willard Avatar

    The Uniball kuru toga pencils are to me like the one ring is to Gollum. “We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. “

    1. Ed Avatar

      I know that feeling: Uniball Micro 0.5 mm blue pens. Bought ’em by the pack, until they morphed into something slightly different and better.