This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, ...

The popularity of journaling and letter writing is a big driver of the resurgence of more elegant writing instruments ...

I'm a self-admitted fanatic when it comes to pens and writing utensils of pretty much any sort. I have lusted after fountain pens for a long time, and wanted to try and start using one for my day to ...

Walk into any college lecture hall, and you’ll see a sea of laptops clicking away, accompanied by the occasional frantic scribble of a ballpoint. But every now and then, you’ll spot a glint of metal ...

Joel Blumberg was running a $75 million leather company when in 1992 he announced to his wife that he’d be going into the fountain pen business. She immediately wrote off the idea because she didn’t ...

At a time when writing tools are being replaced by smartphones and other digital gadgets, fountain pens are bucking the trend. The classic writing instrument’s comeback stems from the release of ...

Pens! They just might be the cheapest, most important piece of technology ever overlooked by a large group of people on a daily basis. Pens are everywhere from your desk to your car to your junk ...

I went looking for the existing thread (link) and found it locked. I have been using a Lamy Safari with blue (kon-peki) Pilot iroshizuku bottled ink for years now at work. That pen has mostly been ...

It’s totally tempting to use a fountain pen. These throwback writing utensils carry a promise of a slower time, when people had hours to write — and when the main writing tool wasn’t a $1,000 computer ...

In a world split over Miyazaki’s hand-painted masterpieces and AI’s cold replicas, the quiet but elegant resurgence of fountain pens is a moment to savour. From novices to collectors, loyal and ...

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