Flying W Things

As you may know, I write small. My typical pen of choice is a black Uni-Ball Micro, and if for some reason I need a pencil I generally reach for my 0.3mm mechanical. (Frankly I'm stunned that there are adults that continue to use actual wood pencils that require sharpening.)

Recently one of the guys at work gave me a new pen - The Uni-Ball Signo 0.18mm. Primarily made for the Japanese market, it is only 10% finer than the standard Micro, but boy does it draw a fine line. The one problem I've had with it is the ink does not flow as quickly as it does in a bigger-tipped pen, so you have to slow down a bit to get clean strokes. Nevertheless, I see this becoming my new favorite writing tool.

Just to give you an idea what I'm talking about when I say I write small, I've prepared a .pdf file of my handwriting with various writing implements for you to compare. For reference, the original was a 8.5" x 11" sheet of engineering paper, which has a 1/5" gri. Unfortunately, I was only able to scan this at 300dpi, but you'll get the idea:

Brad's Handwriting.