Question: is 2b and 2hb pencil the same?
Answer: H (harder), F, HB and B (softer) are pencils of average hardness. Pencils ranging from 2B to 9B are softer still and are used for sketching; 2H to 9H are harder than average. A common American #2 pencil is equivalent to HB. ... Generally, a #2 pencil is about the equivalent of an HB pencil.