Q&A Slices: How similar are steel nibs to gold nibs within the same brand?

When you upgrade from steel to gold nibs, are nib sizes equivalent? What differences can we expect?

- Gold vs steel comes up a lot, especially for newer pen users who see such a price discrepancy
- Nib sizes honestly don’t have a whole lot to do with the type of nib material used, it can vary quite a bit from model to model
- Some pens (like Edison) use the exact same nib design with both steel and gold nibs
- Other brands have completely different designs with their nibs, like the Pilot Metropolitan and Pilot VP
- The grind itself will often be somewhat comparable, all else equal, but the softness of the gold nibs usually make them write wetter/broader
- The generalizations get so broad here that you really have to take each pen on a per-model and per-nib size basis when comparing
- This was what inspired the Nib Nook at Goulet Pens, so you can directly compare every single nib size offered

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