Barry, as a result of our recent conversation, I posed the following question to an architect friend who is a fountain pen collector and with whom I correspond regularly: I am confused by the term "architect nib." Do architects use nibs that are fashioned intentionally for line variation? I am familiar with Hebrew/Arabic nibs, which is, I suspect, what is meant by architect nib.
He replied, To be honest, I am confused as well about this term. I have never seen an architect using such a nib. Back in the days before CAD, architects and draughtsmen used graphos, then stylographs and rapidographs for drawing plans and pencils for sketching.
I expect someone just made it up, and like sheep, others bleated it again and again until it became a mainstream belief.
Except, of course, among architects!
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