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 ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In a digital heavy world, pen and paper have never been more important. Perhaps only a decade ago, ...

SINGAPORE — Every morning, 56-year-old Rick Ho spends three hours improving his handwriting. With his fountain pen, he copies his favourite passages or quotes from books in cursive script. Describing ...

Generally, the fountain pen is regarded as as outdated as the horse-drawn Zeppelin, but in upmarket circles it's still a symbol of luxury and status. Precision mechanical watches are still made for a ...

Joel Blumberg was running a $75 million leather company when in 1992 he announced to his wife that he’d be going into the fountain pen business. She immediately wrote off the idea because she didn’t ...

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 ...