Huion Kamvas 16 2021 (GS1562)

Summary

  • A little bit of a dated tablet, but in 2025 it is a very good deal if you are budget constrained and can't go for the Huion Kamvas 16 GEN3 (which is a clearly superior tablet).

  • Drawing experience is pretty typical for this generation of Huion's products - works very well.

  • DO get the PW550 pen and use it instead of the PW517 pen that comes with this tablet.

Included pen

The tablet comes with the PW517 pen.

As with all Huion tablets that comes with the PW517 pen, I recommend you also buy the PW550 pen which is much better and can really upgrade the drawing experience. More here 7P notes: Huion PW550 series pens

Diagonal wobble

  • A bit of diagonal wobble at slow speeds. Not too much and can be compensated for by turning on smoothing/stabilization in your drawing app. The wobble is not visible at faster speeds and depending on how you draw you may not even notice it.

    • In Krita I used weighted smoothing with a distance value of 200.

Display specs

  • Resolution: 1920x1080

  • Pixel density: 142 PPI

  • Contrast ratio: 1000:1

  • Brightness: 220 nits (max)

  • Response time: 25ms

  • Color Gamut: 120% sRGB

  • Color: 8 bits per channel (RGB)

  • Display tech: IPS

Anti-glare treatment

Type: Anti-glare Matte Film

Anti-glare sparkle

Low amounts of AG sparkle. You'd have to put your eyes about 4 to 5 inches from the tablet to even notice it - even then it is not much.

Buttons

  • Has 10 buttons on the left side.

Connections and cabling

  • Ports - Has two recessed USB-C ports on the right side. The wells the ports are in are slightly different sizes.

  • 3-in-1 cable. The tablet comes with a 3-in-1 cable if you need to connect it to your computer with HDMI

  • Single USB-C connection - This tablet DOES support being connected with a single USB-C connection. Because the port is recessed I recommend you buy Huion's fell featured USB-C cable for this tablet. Of course you will need to make sure your computer supports a single USB-C connection. More here: Connecting a pen display with a single USB-C cable.

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