Review: Huion Kamvas 22 (Gen 3) pen display

Review unit provided by Huion

Huion has just released the Huion Kamvas 22 (Gen 3) on 3 March 2026, and this is an update of the Huion Kamvas 22 and Kamvas 22 Plus from 2020.

Price at time of review is USD 599 and includes free shipping (depending on location) and a one year warranty.

The Huion Kamvas 22 Plus was and is still one of the best 22-inch pen displays in the market, though a bit outdated now. The main selling feature is the fantastic visual quality, up to 97% AdobeRGB and 314 nits of maximum brightness measured. Limitation is the 1080P resolution.

The new Huion Kamvas 22 (Gen 3) has some notable improvements such as the increase in resolution to 1440P and higher refresh rate of 90Hz, and the use of PenTech 4 which supports 16K levels of pressure sensitivity. The version 2 matte glass has good anti-glare and does not affect visual quality much. Colour accuracy is good at 100% sRGB, but not as good as the earlier model.

And they even added glow light. Sleek.

Video review

Specifications

Things included

• Pen display
• Quick start guide
• Colour calibration report
• 1.5m full-size HDMI to full-size HDMI cable
• 1.5m long USB-A to USB-C cable
• 1m long USB-C video cable
• 36W power adapter
• Power cable
• Artist glove
• Micro fiber cleaning cloth
• 2-in-1 allen key screw driver
• 2 screws
• Pen holder
• Pen stand with 10 replacement pen tips
• Huion PW600L pen
• Huion ST100 stand

Design

This pen display has a clean, simple and modern design. Corners are rounded off. Sides are flat. Build quality is good.

The pen holder that you can attach to the top of the display is very convenient since it does not take up space on the table like the pen stand.

Design of the back looks sleek.

Huion has added this new rectangular ring light to provide glow on the back of the display.

The light has 12 colours to choose from the driver, and brightness and breathing speed can be adjusted.

The lights look good in the dark but aren't really visible during daytime.

The pen display comes with the Huion ST100 stand already attached.

The Huion ST100 is a good stand that's stable and can be deployed at many different angles. Just lift the latch behind and the stand can be adjusted easily.

The pen display also supports 10 x 10cm VESA. A portion of the rectangular ring light will be blocked by the stand.

The ports are hidden behind a cover. There are two screws provided to screw the cover onto the pen display. It's not necessary to screw the cover but where else will you keep the screws?

Ports will face the left when the pen display faces front. Ports available are for power, HDMI and USB-C video

Connection

The pen display supports HDMI and USB-C video connection. Regardless of which video connection used, the pen display has to be connected to power.

When using USB-C video, there are the USB-C and power cable.

When using HDMI, there are the HDMI cable, USB cable and power cable.

The pen display does not support power passthrough and hence will not charge a connected laptop.

UI scaling issues with MacOS
21.5-inch with 1440P resolution is not a good combination for MacOS as there are UI scaling issues.

Using native resolution without scaling will result in UI looking small, e.g. small text, icons. Scaling the UI bigger will result is extra softness.

The alternative is to use an app called BetterDisplay to handle the UI scaling.

Display

The Huion Kamvas 22 (Gen 3) uses a 21.5-inch LCD with 2560 x 1440 resolution and 90Hz refresh rate.

Display is laminated, so there's almost no gap between the line and the pen tip.

Anti-glare works well. Contents on the display can still be seen through diffused reflections.

All matte surfaces will introduce some colour noise, grain or anti-glare sparkle, and all that is kept to a minimum with this pen display. I don't see the matte glass (version 2) affecting the sharpness of the display as well.

It's great that the pen display is colour calibrated at the factory. I'll always colour calibrate my displays as I use multiple displays.

With a Spyder X2 colour calibrator, I measured colour support for 100% sRGB, 85% NTSC, 89% AdobeRGB, 94% P3 and a maximum brightness of 217 nits.

Colour accuracy is good enough for creating visual content for the web, editing photos and videos. If you work with print, you may want to get a display with 95% AdobeRGB or higher.

217 nits isn't too far off the advertised 250 nits. Real world brightness is usually 10-20% lower so I'm not surprised at the measurement here. I usually use my monitors at 150 nits so 217 nits is more than sufficient for me.

There are no brightness control buttons on the pen display, so that's quite inconvenient. To control brightness you have to press and hold the power button for a few seconds before the OSD appears.

The brightness control buttons from Mac are not able to adjust the display brightness too.

The OSD has adjustment for brightness, contrast, saturation, RGB, colour temperature, colour spaces (sRGB, P3, AdobeRGB, Rec 709).

Having 90Hz refresh rate is certainly an improvement. 90Hz refresh rate will make the computer feel faster thanks to the smoother animation for pan, zoom, rotate and scroll. If you know and can see the difference with a phone or tablet with faster refresh rate vs 60Hz, you'll know the difference.

Driver

Driver is available for Mac and Windows.

The driver provides customisation for:

• Pen pressure
• Three side buttons
• Tilt (enable or disable)
• Virtual keyboard with 24 customisable softkeys
• Calibration to remove parallax
• Glow light colours, speed, breathing

Line tests

Line tests below were created with Medibang Paint Pro.

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1. Initial activation force is very low and thin lines can be drawn easily even with a thick brush selected. There is slight wobble with slow diagonal lines, something that shows up the tests but not when actually drawing.

2. Lines can taper smoothly and sharply.

3. Line transition from thin to thick and back is smooth. Not all pens can draw thin lines after drawing thick so the performance here is very good. This is also a diagonal line and i don't see noticeable line wobble.

4. Line width can be maintained consistently by maintaining consistent line width. This is also a diagonal line and i don't see noticeable line wobble.

5. Dots can be drawn easily.

6. There are no issues with cursor misalignment. I could join separate lines without leaving gaps or overshooting.

Tilt works fine. Cursor is able to follow the direction of the pen.

Pen is accurate and sensitive. Performance is consistent and predictable.

Drawing experience

Since the pen performance is excellence, drawing experience is fantastic.

The display is big. Even with two columns of palettes, the leftover canvas space is still slightly bigger than A4 paper, and that's a lot of space to work with for drawing.

1440P has slight pixelation but is noticeably much sharper compared to 1080P resolution. One huge advantage of the 1440P has more resolution than 1080P, the desktop UI is more customisable.

This is one of those products where you know instantly that it works well

The pen is so sensitive you can create a thin line easily by barely applying any pressure. Lines just come out the way I expect them to. There are no surprises.

There's still the latency gap even though the refresh rate has increase from 60Hz to 90Hz. The main difference the line as it appears on the display will appear more smoothly compared to appearing in chunk by chunk with 60Hz.

The drawing experience is great.

The three drawings below were created with Clip Studio Paint.

The only issue I encountered was with a split second lag when drawing a long continuous line with Medibang Paint Pro (Mac), which is a common issue with some pen displays.

Conclusion

The Huion Kamvas 22 (Gen 3) is a beautiful and well made pen display. Colour accuracy is good, but if you need higher AdobeRGB coverage then this would not be good enough.

Pen performance is fantastic. Drawing experience is wonderful. Workflow is smooth without issues.

The increase in resolution to 1440P is a huge upgrade, especially for a 21.5-inch display. 90Hz is nice to have. The glow light is not necessary, but a nice bonus.

Pricing is quite reasonable at USD 599. It's USD 50 more than the previous model from 2020. And I think this provides more value for money compared to the Huion Kamvas Pro 19.

I don't really have many bad things to say. If you need a pen display this big, this is a good one to consider.

Pros and cons at a glance
+ Clean simple design
+ Good build quality
+ 21.5-inch display is massive to draw on
+ Good colour accuracy. 100% sRGB
+ Fantastic viewing angles
+ 90Hz refresh rate
+ Glow light on the back is nice to have
+ Matte drawing surface has nice texture to draw on
+ Laminated display with no gap between pen and cursor
+ Matte glass surface is unlikely to scratch
+ 10 replacement nibs included
+ Pen holder on the pen display is convenient
+ Pen is accurate and sensitive
+ Stand can be deployed at various angles
+ Stand is stable at all angles
+ Can be VESA mounted (10cm)
+ Does not produce much heat
+ Excellent drawing performance
+ No major glitches with drawing software on both Mac and Windows
+ Virtual keyboard has 24 customisable softkeys
- No physical shortcut buttons
- No brightness control buttons
- 21.5-inch and 1440P is not a good combo for MacOS (there's workaround)

Availability

The Huion Kamvas 22 (Gen 3) is available from Huion online store.