TRYING TO WRITE a note by hand after years of typing on a physical keyboard or smartphone screen can be discouraging. Often, the spastic result only vaguely resembles penmanship. Thankfully ...

Fountain pens became more commonplace than dip pens around the time of the World War I, although early 20th-century schoolchildren were still learning how to write with the older implements.

Writing with a fountain pen demands mindfulness. Each stroke is intentional. They are finicky and need to be handled gently. But their finickiness is what infuses even banal tasks with thoughtfulness.

Here’s a fact you have to write down to believe: Over the past 10 years, during which the world has adopted smartphones and social media, sales of fountain pens have risen. Retail sales, in ...

The Write Stuff: Five Pens to Make a Mark A fabulous pen is a portable objet d'art, beautifully tactile yet possessing a mild intellectual disdain for the modern. By Ken Kessler March 27, 2014 1: ...

I endeavor to only ever use my Lamy 2000 to write. It’s not that any other pen won’t do the job, or that I needed a $200 piece of midcentury design to fill a void inside my soul.