Which pen-nib gives you the best handwriting?

[holgalee]

After 1.5 years of frenzied pen buying, I've found the pen which complements my handwriting. It's the Pilot Custom Heritage 91 with SF nib.

 

So which pen-nib combination improves your handwriting?

[Sailor Kenshin]

After 1.5 years of frenzied pen buying, I've found the pen which complements my handwriting. It's the Pilot Custom Heritage 91 with SF nib.

 

So which pen-nib combination improves your handwriting?

 

 

VERY interesting, because my handwriting changes with each pen.

 

So far, B nibs and gushers actually seem to improve my hand. But I think my little inexpensive Sailor Profit Special Script really makes my writing look GOOD.

[Yuki Onitsura]

I seem to be best off with wet-ish fines (e.g. Myu 90 fine). But my handwriting style really does change depending on the pen I'm using.

 

Yuki

[greencobra]

VERY interesting, because my handwriting changes with each pen.

Me also. But I find dryer pens are best for me with thicker than "normal" sections. Examples...Delta's DV, MB 149, Pel 800 & 1000, and the like.

[Shangas]

My handwriting also tends to change a bit with each nib. Currently, I'm a fan of firm and flexible fine nibs.

[tonybelding]

So which pen-nib combination improves your handwriting?

 

Whichever one makes me write slower. :embarrassed_smile:

 

I do like the bit of flair I get from my Esterbrook J with the 9314F relief stub, and also my vintage Waterman Thorobred with its flexible nib. With both pens the effect subtle, and that's OK with me.

[Namo]

Pelikan 140 F

Lamy 2000 F

Waterman 52 1/2v F

 

Although they are all 14kF, they put down very different lines. I don't why these seem to be the ones that makes my horrible handwriting better, all the more as two of them are not usual writers.

[amble63]

any medium to broad nib. Same thing with regular pens - anything with a broader tip makes my handwriting look better.

[Sandy1]

None.

I'm thinking of having someone else 'ghost write' the text to be scanned for my ink reviews.

Some of the PMs've been rather scathing - but true & accurate.

Ah me

People have suggested that I use nice pens, ink & paper to distract from dreadful penmanship and dishwater-dull content of my letters.

Maybe I'll slip into a muumuu & eat some bonbons after office duties are done with.

S1's no fun today

[Possum Hill]

Lamy Safari 1.1mm italic nib, because it's so much fun to watch the letters form. Also it slows me down just a little, though it's still fast enough for taking notes.

[Paddler]

For me, the fountain pen that makes my writing look best is a Platignum "Silverline" with a medium italic nib.

 

Paddler

[seasterl]

While I'm still experimenting, I'm quickly finding that a wet Pelikan M800 with left-oblique broad nib really makes my writing look great. This size of pen gets my angle down a little closer to 45* with the paper and I can write pretty quickly. There's never a dry start or skip and at my normal writing speed, I'm able to have freedom with the cursive letter formation. Other pens I've tried (and own) make the writing angle steeper, cause more skips or dry starts, are too fine of a nib to be interesting, are too dry (or just downright too wet), or lead to hand discomfort after extended writing periods. For reference, I'm 6'1" and with normal average-sized hands (if this info is helpful).

[StillLifeWithBooks]

I have to have a fine nib or my writing becomes illegible. Thinner pens with hooded nibs (like my Hero 616) are my favourite, because I also hold the pen way up near the nib in a very strange way - the pen stands very straight up, rests against the inner edge of my ring finger, and is manipulated mostly by my middle finger and thumb. (in grade school, wooden pencils used to wear the skin right off my ring finger!)

 

That said, I also have a more traditionally (fine) nibbed CdA Ecridor that I love - it just makes my writing kind of messy.

 

-g.

[redbike]

To my surprise, a fine nib works better since my letters are more clearly formed. Also, drier is better than wetter. That said, my handwriting needs a lot of improvement. I'm nowhere ready to post a handwritten review here.

[2Hearts]

I find a slightly wet, medium nib. A firm one works best for me

[dexaco]

Lamy Safari 1.1mm italic nib, because it's so much fun to watch the letters form. Also it slows me down just a little, though it's still fast enough for taking notes.

 

+1 on this, although I had to reshape the nib to left oblique - I'm a lefty underwriter.

 

 

Derick

[Aunt Jill]

Lamy Safari 1.1mm italic nib, because it's so much fun to watch the letters form. Also it slows me down just a little, though it's still fast enough for taking notes.

 

Surprised to find my new Safari 1.5 italic nib writes the prettiest scrawled cursive. As you say, it's a little slow, so I may look for a 1.1 instead.

[FrankB]

In the course of my week, I have varying writing tasks that requie quite different nib points. I have and use ball nibs from EF to BB, as well as stubs and italics. For general writing, I like wet M and B nibs. But, those nibs that allow me "to be all I can be" are my italic nibs, both formal and cursive.

[GardenCity-NY]

It has to be the Lamy Vista with XF nib... it's combo of great flow and crips line make for a very intricate writing style for me...

[razr]

Sheaffer Triumph w/1.1 Minuskin stub