Even the company that hired him, the world's most famous writing utensil brand, didn't know he was working on the project.

For the past two years, during the twilight of my academic career, I have become a devotee of the fountain pen, often pondering this seemingly retro act of putting pen to paper. Composing again by ...

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 ...

The promise all good fountain pens deliver—be they expensive or affordable—is that they make your handwriting better than you ever imagined. At the very least, they make handwriting more fun ...

There’s nothing quite like using the best fountain pens to get your writing done. The whole experience is rewarding, from purchasing one and unpacking it, to using it for the first time.

Long seen as symbols of wealth and status, fountain pens have evolved into more than just writing tools. Adorned with things like precious metals, gemstones, or intricate details, some of these ...

Enter the humble – and no longer predictably inexpensive – fountain pen. The global fountain pen market reached US$956-million in 2022 and is expected to reach a billion dollars by 2030.

Sitting at his store in Dhaka's Baitul Mukarram market, Mostofa Kamal Pasha was tinkering with a desk fountain pen that used to be a symbol of aristocracy decades back. Being a fountain pen ...