Fountain pens are the most personal of writing instruments. For a long time, fountain pens were the only type of pen available. When mass-produced ballpoint pens came along, however, most people op… ...

A fountain pen cartridge will give you around 7 to 15 pages of writing, whereas a ballpoint pen contains enough ink to write a continuous line four to five kilometres long.

OneNote’s popular fountain and brush pens are now in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, giving Windows users more natural-looking ...

A good fountain pen is a piece of precision engineering and design that can serve you well for many years. But do you really need to part with hundreds of dollars to get one?

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 ...

Inked in India documents the history of the fountain pen, nib and ink manufacturers in the country and looks at why the industry floundered after Independence Two years ago, I posted a photo of my ...

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 ...

Ross Cameron of Conklin Pens shows a self-filling fountain pen at Fahrney’s Pens on F Street NW. Some millennials embrace the pens, which are undergoing a resurgence. (John Kelly/The Washington ...