I recently unearthed my grandfather’s fountain pen. A handsome thing housed ... to be one of the happy few who still favor putting pen to paper? Well, you can certainly do that with a cheap ...

It’s worth noting, though, that a ballpoint pen will deliver consistent writing across all paper types, whereas a fountain pen’s ink will bleed on low-quality thin paper. A fountain pen ...

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 ...

When fountain pens first came along ... Bíró’s ink was oil-based, and sat on top of the paper rather than seeping through the fibers. While gravity and pen angle had been a problem in previous ...