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The art of putting pen to paper has undeniably dwindled in the past few decades, but for a small number of dedicated enthusiasts, nothing beats traditional fountain pens. Elegant tools for creative ...

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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 ...

There are several popular types of pens, but when it comes to the best pens for note-taking, your best bets are ballpoint, rollerball, or gel pens that distribute ink evenly and don't easily bleed ...

Fountain pens have seen a resurgence in recent months. Some see that in viral videos of the nib-tipped pens smoothy running over paper to create calligraphy-style fonts. Whether a fountain pen is ...

Barry Chudakov was a visiting research fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. He is currently founder and principal of Sertain Research, a future-focused ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...