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, ...

We’ve asked the big questions – does it write smoothly, gliding across the page and releasing ink evenly? How does it feel to hold? (The Independent) There are two types of people in the world – those ...

Orlando, USA, November 18th, 2025, FinanceWireAs handwritten expression reclaims attention in a screen-saturated world, ...

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 ...

The fountain pen as a practical writing instrument has been declared obsolete numerous times. It was supposedly doomed by the innovations of the drip-free ballpoint pen and the typewriter, then the ...

Among the obituaries of a former Conservative Minister a few years ago, there was one delightful snippet. A line in The Daily Telegraph described how, when she received the letter from Mrs Thatcher ...

In the late ’60s, a novel writing implement arrived in our school that changed the way we communicated: the fountain pen. Its ...

BEING left handed, I used to find it difficult, not to say messy, to use a fountain pen. BEING left handed, I used to find it difficult, not to say messy, to use a fountain pen. My hand would ...