PENCILS

Can you take the lead when picking out a pencil? Our handy guide gets you quickly to the point.

Photographs by Olivia Megalis

Ruby 621 One of India’s famous rubies. And perhaps as valuable too, given that they’ve been made and sold for more than half a century. Noris HB School Pencil Uniting Europe – well, European school children, at least. This German design is the most popular pencil on the continent. Blackwing 602 Draws a link between Walt Disney and Vladimar Nabokov, who both favoured this smooth, soft number in the 1960s. No. 123 HB Pencil Made by the Cumberland Pencil Company, drawing on centuries of pencil making and graphite mining in the Lakes. Recycled Pencil The Fabula Organic, made in Croatia from tea leaves, coffee and flowers – and golden berry seed to plant after use. Mono KM-KKS This Japanese pencil’s soft, wide core makes for a brushlike stroke suitable for use in traditional calligraphy. Electrographic Mark Sensing Pencil Made with highly conductive artificial…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2020

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