Draw a decorative line thin - thick - thin

Question

Does anybody know how you can draw a line, that starts very thin and then gets thick to the middle and then thin again? I hope this is clear because I cannot produce a minimal example here. I think this should be possible with tikz but any solution / suggestion would be welcome.

I would like to use it to separate the Author from the title on the titlepage.

You want a swelled rule: look at the manual of the gmp package. There are surely TikZ based methods, too. — egreg, Dec 12 '16 at 18:51
Depending on your usage, the following might be a duplicate: PRL style horizontal line in Latex — Werner, Dec 12 '16 at 18:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '16 at 19:56

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Three ways with tikz: using the calligraphy library (for pen like strokes), making a very thin losangle and a very thin ellipse.

\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{calligraphy}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[minimum size=5cm]{};
\pen (0,0);
\calligraphy (-1,0) -- (1,0);
\fill (-1,-.25) -- ++(1,.1mm) -- ++(1,-.1mm) -- ++(-1,-.1mm) -- cycle;
\fill (0,-0.5) circle[x radius=1cm, y radius=.1mm];
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Ridicolous zoom:

answered Dec 12 '16 at 19:56

Guilherme Zanotelli

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You should move this answer to the one marked as duplicate – egreg Dec 12 '16 at 20:53
@egreg You think so? Is there a "formal" way to do it or just copy/paste/delete? – Guilherme Zanotelli Dec 13 '16 at 07:03

Draw a decorative line thin - thick - thin

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