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 ...

I have horrid penmanship. Partly because I have some nerve issues in my dominant hand but also because I never really tried to learn how to write legibly in the first place. According to a close ...

Below are the ten pens I stand by for writing, drawing, or both. Having tested and vetted all of them, plus countless others, ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- When turn-of-the-20th-century Americans composed a letter or signed a document, they did so with a flourish and with their favorite fountain pen. Sold in every size, shape, ...

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 particular ...

There’s a different kind of comfort in things analog—like pen on paper, the feeling of leafing through pages, and fingers being able to brush over the strokes of words written on the page. The fact ...

Like most of the world, Chuck Swisher abandoned fountain pens for ballpoints decades ago. Blame it on the girl in sixth grade who turned around and scribbled on his paper. Swisher retaliated with his ...

WITH HANDWRITING NOW almost as endangered as rhinos, certain orchids and public libraries, how has the fountain pen—with more than a thousand years of history behind it—survived into the 21st century?